Excellent, thanks for that. I think if it comes down to it I'll really test my advocacy skills and go represent myself in court. Might be an expensive lesson but I'd like to be a thorn in the side of this big corporation, if only for a brief moment before I get duly admonished. Then I'll plead poverty and an extended period over which to pay the fine. And if I win! I'll hire out my services to every other poor bugger who gets a private corporation parking ticket. I am sick of being Miss Compliant.
Excellent, thanks for that. I think if it comes down to it I'll really test my advocacy skills and go represent myself in court. Might be an expensive lesson but I'd like to be a thorn in the side of this big corporation, if only for a brief moment before I get duly admonished. Then I'll plead poverty and an extended period over which to pay the fine. And if I win! I'll hire out my services to every other poor bugger who gets a private corporation parking ticket. I am sick of being Miss Compliant.
I doubt if they've used the road traffic act to give you a ticket, usually private parking fines are issued using either contractual law or trespass law. As it wasn't P&D parking it'll probably be trespass they're using. Your best defence in this one is the signs, if you can prove that the signs were such that it was unreasonable to expect you to see them then you should get away with it. Be warned though that just saying I didn't see them isn't good enough you have to prove you wouldn't have seen them even if you looked specifically for them so if they're obstructed or too small that'll work. There's more to it than the simple pub lawyer stuff I've just said but that's the gist of it.
Thanks Lurkio. I'll sneak up there this evening to surreptitiously remove the sign that was about 10 feet from my bike that I didn't spot then, and bob's me uncle.
All lawyers are simple pub lawyers, aren't they? I didn't know there was any other kind
11-Nov-2005, 19:13 
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