Re: Aldı car park fine
I am an idiot. I didn't realise that you are in Scotland. The Protection of Freedom Act 2012 does not exist in Scotland so there is no keeper liability.
As long as parking eye do not know the identity of the driver there is absolutely nothing they can do.
As long as you read the info on the other site I told you about, you would have spotted that anyway.
The case reported by that newspaper is well know in the unfair parking ticket community. In the case of that particular lady, the parking company knew that she was the driver. Having got one ticket, she continued to park where she shouldn't and got multiple tickets. It was very easy for the parking company therefore to prove that she was the driver and keeper, and having got her name and address from the DVLA, they were able to pursue her through the Scottish courts as the driver.
The keeper however cannot be held liable in Scotland and cannot be taken to court by a parking company, only the driver.
This is why it is important not to identify the driver in Scotland and NI.
Even when the driver's identity is known, it is unusual and rare for court to happen in Scotland. There has to be more money at stake than the odd single PCN for a parking company to even think about it as it costs more than they win.
So, as long as you appealed to parking eye as keeper and didn't reveal the driver's identity, you are safe.
Even if the driver was identified, because this is an Aldi car park, I believe the hidden clause will mean the driver is still safe from prosecution.
Again, my apologies for not making this clear at the start.
For anyone else reading this, in Scotland and Northern Ireland, unfair private parking tickets can and should be ignored because the parking companies cannot take the keeper to court, even if they know who it is. By ignoring them you can't accidently reveal the driver's identity.
In England and Wales, unfair private parking charges should not be ignored.
In all of the UK, never reveal the driver's identity except in very specific, well researched circumstances when you really, really know what you are doing. Even then, triple check what you are doing before giving away the driver's identity.
Revealing the driver's identity in general is not advised in the rest of the UK, but in some cases a driver appeal can be an advantage if say it is for residential parking in one's own owned or rented space.