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Hi All,

I am being pursued for being "not parked within a marked bay" at Arena Shopping Park Coventry in April 2024.

A claim was issued by BW Legal on behalf of Premier Park in July 2025 with the standard lacking PoC. I submitted the standard PoC insufficient defence (the short MCOL paste-able version). I've done the mediation using standard advice.

A court date in October has now been set, with doc submissions by 22 April.

I genuinely have no recollection of the incident and therefore have no idea where to go from here. How can I be expected submit a witness statement, when the claimant has provided absolutely no detail on what the claim is about?

One thing that may or may not be noteworthy- I was not the keeper of the vehicle. It was via a friend's work car scheme whereby they (the friend's employer) retained keepership and it was just with me (and other insured parties) as driver. I assume the POFA rules for this are something like leasing/hiring.

Any advice on how to proceed from here much appreciated.

Hi all,

I appreciate that most of this has been covered already, and I’ve read everything I can find, but I have some questions due to a specific nuance in my situation.

Until recently, I was the ‘keeper’ of a car under a friends and family scheme through my friend’s employer. However, I was not the official keeper on the V5C—this was my friends employer, herein known as 'the owner company'.

APCOA has issued four tickets for ‘Use of a private car park without making a valid payment’ at Bedford Train Station, relying on Railway Byelaws:

• Notice 1: Never received—only the follow-up threat letter. The owner company has challenged it.
• Notices 2 & 3: Received by the owner company, who named me as the responsible party. APCOA then reissued them to me. I appealed [Image 0 Below] but haven’t received a response yet.
• Notice 4: Received by the owner company [Image 1 Below], who again named me as the responsible party. However, this time, APCOA stated they could not reissue it [Image 2 Below].

In all 4 cases, payment had been made on behalf of the driver at the 'at' time stated on the notices, but it's possible that payment wasn't made at the correct 'start time' - not mentioned in the notices.

This afternoon I've had two interesting conversations with APCOA on their live chat [Images 3 & 4 Below]. They're now saying (amongst other things) that Notices 2 & 3 should never have been re-issued to me.

Basically, I'm looking for some advice on how to proceed. If these had been issued directly to me I would simply follow the common wisdom to ignore, but I'm concerned that the owner company will potentially pressure me to pay, or pay and expect me to reimburse. I'd be half inclined to do so in order to make life easy for myself and my friend, but I really can't bear to give these companies money.

Image 0 (My Appeal)



Image 1 (PN)





Image 2 (Response from APCOA RE Notice 4)



Image 3 (First Live Chat Conversation)







Image 4 (Second Live Chat Conversation)