If anyone posts an Excess Charge Notice in any part of the forum, please
do not advise the OP to pay. Flag the thread to me and I will deal with it appropriately. The same goes for any police FPNs issued in respect of what appears to be a civil parking contravention.
These sorts of cases are very rare but when they come up they require detailed investigation, telling someone to pay without carrying out those investigations would be negligent if you were a qualified lawyer because it could prejudice the OP's case. While it is true that nobody gets paid for giving advice and we are all volunteers, we should not be giving bad advice.
If you don't know what relevant investigations need to be carried out, then by definition you are not qualified to give advice on the topic of ECNs.
Advising someone to pay in a case where you are not qualified to do so is also a breach of
House Rule 3, because it qualifies as poor advice.
