Essentialy these charges can now be enforced in court but:
They may or may not take it to court.
The charge has to be reasonable to their loss of you parking where you parked etc
They have to give you reasonable notice of where to park and the charges, i.e. warning signs etc
If you are willing to pay the £100 but not the £60 then i would try offering them that. I do think that if their notices state a parking charge of £100 it is unreasonable of them to then try and charge a total of £160 off the bat, especially as £100 is already at the high end of what could be considered a reasonable charge for a days parking.
If they refuse the £100 then i would be happy for them to take me to court. armed with evidence that I had offered to pay them £100 promptly and they turned this down.
Do note though that i am not a lawyer and i dont take responsibility for any advise i have given etc 😉
[quote=theotherjonv ]This comes down (again!!) to the Beavis court ruling.
Maybe. Because the judges in the Beavis case made it very clear that their ruling applied very specifically just to the circumstances involved in that case. In different circumstances the ruling doesn't apply. IIRC Beavis involved an overstay in a car park which was free for a certain amount of time. molly's case doesn't appear to be for that, hence Beavis can't be applied simply - I've seen judgements reported where the judge basically threw out the PPC attempting to use Beavis.
I'd be interested to see the exact wording of the signs, because IIRC cases of parking somewhere where it is impossible for anybody to park at any time without being subject to an excessive parking charge have been thrown out even since Beavis.
Regarding your parking situation, I think most people would agree it is reasonable for you to keep other people out of your spaces and have some means of deterring them. The trouble is mostly PPCs don't act reasonably (and the majority of situations don't involve people being inconvenienced in the way you are) - and unfortunately that is also likely to be the case if you employ one, because they are almost universally as somebody put it earlier, scum. The trouble is, it wouldn't even be in their interests to stop people parking there - simply to get as many people as possible breaking the rules and parking there so they can issue them with charges, because that's how they make their money.
