The legal confusion over perpendicular parking – BBC News
‘A Smart car owner has won a year-long battle over a £50 parking ticket given because she parked at a right angle to the kerb. But what is the law, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.’ Full story BBC News, 17th...
View ArticleRAC: Millions in private parking fines ‘charged illegally’– BBC News
‘Millions of pounds of parking fines could have been charged illegally, according to the RAC Foundation.’ Full story BBC News, 20th February 2015 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View Article‘Millions of pounds’ hang on one parking fine appeal – The Independent
‘Barry Beavis is in court with the aim of striking a blow “for every motorist, in every car park”.’ Full story The Independent, 24th February 2015 Source: www.independent.co.uk
View ArticleBarry Beavis parking charges challenge dismissed – BBC News
‘A chip shop owner has lost his Court of Appeal challenge over what he claimed were “unfair, unlawful and disproportionate” parking charges.’ Full story BBC News, 23rd April 2015 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleParkingEye drives home a penalty – charge for a breach of contract allowed –...
‘A dispute over a parking fine has received a lot of press attention from the angle of the aggrieved motorist standing up to big business. But there are wider implications. The recent Court of Appeal...
View ArticleParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (The Consumers’ Association intervening) – WLR Daily
ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (The Consumers’ Association intervening: [2015] EWCA Civ 402; [2015] WLR (D) 190 ‘A parking charge of £85 imposed once a motorist overstayed a permitted two-hour period of free...
View ArticleChip shop owner raises £6,000 in 24 hours to take parking fine appeal to...
‘Never, it seems, should you underestimate the British public’s hatred of parking charges. When Barry Beavis, an Essex chip shop owner, asked the public for money to help take his appeal against an £85...
View ArticleBusinesses team up to battle English laws on penalties dating back to Magna...
‘Lawyers are in a legal slug-fest in the Supreme Court trying to determine if the English law on penalties has any place in the modern commercial world.’ Full story The Independent, 23rd July 2015...
View ArticleLocal authority ordered to pay £200k after sports ground car park death –...
‘A local authority has been ordered to pay more than £200,000 after a man died when his car drove into a horizontal swing barrier gate to a car park at a sports ground.’ Full story Local Government...
View ArticleThe chips are down for Barry Beavis – but what does it mean for the penalty...
‘This week the UK Supreme Court gave a single decision on a pair of wildly different cases. They involved a chip shop owner overstaying in a retail car park and the heavily negotiated sale of a...
View ArticleAfter Cavendish Square/ParkingEye, is it more or less likely to be a penalty?...
‘Reports of the decision of the Supreme Court in the joined appeals in Cavendish Square and ParkingEye left me confused because some reckoned the decision represented a narrowing of the application of...
View ArticleCavendish win on penalties: Supreme Court makes finger-tip save of ageing...
‘The Supreme Court has provided long awaited clarification of the law on penalty clauses and liquidated damages, upholding the “penalty rule” but further limiting its utility in a commercial setting....
View ArticleRobot lawyer can help you claim compensation without legal fees – Daily...
‘Student entrepreneur who created donotpay.co.uk has launched automated lawyer to help people challenge unfair fines.’ Full story Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2016 Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
View ArticleMP Simon Danczuk admits wrongly claiming £11,000 expenses – BBC News
‘MP Simon Danczuk has been ordered to repay thousands of pounds after admitting an expenses claims “error”.’ Full story BBC News, 18th March 2016 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
View ArticleDrivers could ‘face £70 fine’ for parking on pavements – The Independent
‘Drivers could face fines of up to £70 for parking on the pavement as ministers reportedly look to extend the ban outside of London to the rest of England.’ Full story The Independent, 18th April 2016...
View ArticleWinterburn and another v Bennett and another – WLR Daily
Winterburn and another v Bennett and another [2016] EWCA Civ 482 ‘The claimant owners of a fish and chip shop claimed as a result of use over a number of years to have acquired by prescription the...
View ArticleChatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York – The...
‘An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.’ Full story The...
View ArticleChief druid wins right to take English Heritage to court over Stonehenge...
‘A senior druid has won the right to take a charity to court over “pay-to-pray” parking charges for the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, claiming it should be free.’ Full story Daily Telegraph, 10th...
View ArticleCouncils rejecting parking appeals ‘out of hand’ without reading them –...
‘Cash-hungry councils are “all too often” rejecting out of hand drivers’ challenges to parking fines without even bothering to read them, according to a watchdog report.’ Full story Daily Telegraph,...
View ArticleParking fine appeal success varies between council areas – BBC News
‘The likelihood of successfully challenging parking fines varies widely depending on where drivers get a ticket, research has shown.’ Full story BBC News, 5th April 2017 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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