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HAVE YOU RECEIVED A DREADED "PRIVATE" PARKING TICKET? IF SO APPEALNOW.COM CAN HELP YOU.
What do you do if you have received a so called "Parking Ticket" for parking on private land?
Firstly the use of the word "Parking Ticket" referring to a penalty imposed for supposedly overstaying or infrinding some "parking" regulation is a misnomer.
It will normally be issued by a private company.
Secondly unlike a Penalty Charge Notice (the legal name for a parking ticket issued by a local authority under Traffic Management Act 2004, or in Scotland, The Road Traffic Act 1991) it is NOT governed by statute but by contract law and property law.
I believe that most private parking penalties are unenforceable because
1. They are penalties which can only be enforced by statute (Interestingly the RAC foundation have recently taken legal advice and confirmed that a penalty cannot be levied by private individuals or companies) and
2. the so-called contract is often either not seen or not seen in its entirety by the motorist . Moreover the right of the car park company to levy the fine is, once again in my view, dependent on the contract with the land owner or lessee.
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