These new laws on parking tickets. Bailiffs can force entry to collect the debts, even if you knew nothing about them etc etc. Ulitimately, it is possible for your very house to be claimed to pay such tickets and the associated fines.
So, should a parking ticket now come with the following disclaimer?
Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your parking ticket.
And if not, why not?
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“Bailiffs can force entry to collect the debts, even if you knew nothing about them”
I’m not sure that’s legal, although I expect it happens. And no law can make that so because it breaches the right to a fair trial (part of which demands the right to hear allegations against you and to make representations to an impartial body).
The Government’s proposals are half-baked rubbish (I know, I know, that’s a tautology) and probably not in compliance with the HRA. So they will likely be bounced at the first opportunity by the courts.
It wouldn’t be the first time judges have to scoop the poop left by New Labour ministers, would it?
“It would not be right to give bailiffs the divine right to walk into your house to enforce a parking ticket.”
– Edmund King, executive director of the RAC Foundation
Untrained, poorly regulated hired thugs with the right to force entry into your home and take your TV with the full backing of the law? How very English to describe this as just not right.
Tim, be a pal and hook me up with your estate agent in Portugal, will you? I might need a UK exit strategy soon 🙂
The Department for Transport’s feasibility study into “pay as you drive”…
Don’t we already pay as we drive? Unless I’m being tricked I pay £115 a year entry fee and around 5p for every mile I drive. This country is going to the dogs, and not slowly.
No yellow lines in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. You can park wherever you want. Odd that a former prison colony in the old USSR is in many ways more free from the agents of the state than the UK.
Hm; I’d like to see some bailiff try to force his way into my home.
First, I’d assume that he was an intruder, and respond accordingly, ie with whatever force I deemed necessary to protect my family.
Second, even if the idiot showed proper ID, there’s no way I can be sure that the ID hasn’t been faked. Indeed, the whole regime is flawed because it (and the housing inspection regime) provides perfect cover for would-be thieves to enter your house at will.
Anyone who enters my house without my permission had damn well better have highly credible documents, or be a police officer. Everyone else gets the rough treatment.
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