Parking fine on private land - any advice?

[Jaguar steve]

Briefly - several months ago my daughter slightly overstayed the 2 hour parking time limit in a retail park. Due to a admin cock up with the carpark manangement company concerned and her forgetting to change her V5 details straight away when she moved as well there was a long delay in the management company concerned in making initial contact. She's also been badly advised to just ignore letters when they started to arrive and she's now told because of this she's lost her right to appeal, there is a CCJ in place against her and "action" will be taken to recover the £185 supposedly owed.

Admittedly she's in breach of contract by overstaying but If I'd found out earlier I'd have attempted to negotiate down to what's a reasonable sum based on similar local authority parking/overstay charges - providing of course there is actual proof of any losses to the management company in the first place.

Any advice? Cheers Chaps

[Jaguar steve]

hornetrider said:

paintman said:

Have a read through this.
https://www.gov.uk/county-court-judgments-ccj-for-...
Has she actually received a CCJ or just various letters threatening to take her to court and trying to frighten her by talking about debt collection agencies, bailiffs & the like?

This. Read the letters VERY carefully.

She's not recieved a CCJ or summons or letters from the court but has she's recently been informed there is a CCJ against her now in favour of Parking bds but at the same time they are still requesting payment in full direct to them. Assumimg I'm correct - any payments on a CCJ have to be made via the court concerned and not direct to Parking bds - then I detect a strong whiff of bullst and will wait to see what happens next.

Cheers again Chaps

[Jaguar steve]

Countdown said:

Who has informed her that there is a CCJ against her?

Parking B'stards themselves. I've challenged them for proof before we go any further.