(Though we are using the word ‘ticket’ to talk about both private and public tickets, only public ones should be thought of as fines. If things can’t be resolved this way it will be helpful to you to be backed up by any available evidence, so you need to photograph anything that might be useful to you whilst at the scene, for example, the signs and their wording, the meter or anything else that led you to dispute the ticket.
With this in mind, if you get a ticket on private land that’s been unfairly given or is clearly exorbitant then you can simply write to them explaining why you won’t pay, or why you will only pay part of the total asked for (a reasonable measure might be to offer to pay only what you would have been charged had the incident occurred on a public road.) They can’t, for instance, threaten your credit score or send the bailiffs round to your house. This is because, unlike a ticket from a public body, the private companies can’t really enforce their tickets without taking the fairly drastic step of court action. If it’s private you can take a much more aggressive stance in refusing to pay. This changes the way you go about fighting it. If it doesn’t name the local council in question and doesn’t name the police force in question, then it’s private. However hard they try to confuse things, the one thing these private tickets can’t do is categorically mislead you. Telling the difference can be tricky, which is largely down to the fact that private companies will try to make their tickets look as similar to those issued by public bodies such as the police and local councils. There are two types of tickets – private and public. Here we look at what to do if you weren’t at fault. Whether it’s a simple case of human error, something gone wrong somewhere in the administrative chain, or a matter of the relevant signage being in some way obscured from view, if you have a good excuse, you could be let off. However, not all parking fines are legitimate. Unfortunately, if you’ve simply suffered a lapse of judgement and broken the rules then there’s not much you can do other than suck it up, pay the fine and try to be more careful in future. So, if the fickle gods of traffic penalties refuse to smile on you, what exactly can you do about it? Thanks to the cruel way the universe works this is invariably the exact time that you’ll find yourself picking up a parking ticket. You’re looking like you’ll just about scrape through to your next payday with all your bills paid on time, just so long as nothing unexpected comes up.
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