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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: Mauricemoss on July 27, 2026, 09:03:31 pm

Title: Re: Accumulated parking charges in Scotland
Post by: jfollows on July 28, 2026, 07:26:22 am

Keeper liability does not apply in Scotland.
Do not communicate with DCBL, and definitely do not identify the driver.
Ignore DCBL anyway.
Search this forum for more information on "Scotland".

If you receive a Letter of Intimation from a solicitor such as DCB Legal (not the same company), a short response denying the debt by pointing out that as registered keeper you can not be liable for the actions of the driver, whom you will not be identifying, would probably be appropriate.

Title: Accumulated parking charges in Scotland
Post by: Mauricemoss on July 27, 2026, 09:03:31 pm

Over the course of 4 different days, a driver parked in a private carpark managed by Europarks in Scotland.

The driver was used to parking here, but in a hurry did not for parking.

It was later realised by the driver that the signs that were usually up which indicate the parking tariffs were not present. The driver has pictures of this, but they are dated one month after the parking charges were issued.

DCBL has been contacted to reclaim money from the registered keeper of the vehicle, amounting to £680 in total for 4 instances of this.

The driver is unsure whether the parking signage was down at the time of missing payments - but suspects that it was.