If you get a ticket in morrisons or any of the other big national chains up in scotland, check where the solicitors that send the letter[or collection agency threatening court action] is as they have no powers in scotland and the type of courts they threaten you with dont exist up here. Know lots of people who have had them and promptly told the company seeking the money to go away.

Try a search on this website PePiPoo: Helping the motorist to get justice

They have some very interesting stuff

Well clamped sat I have got it back monday.....found out who owns the land and went to their office....also have got a story about it going in the local paper and my M.P.s office have called me for a full account..soon as the local paper phoned the landowners I got a call 15 mins after to go and get bike. They hate publicity..Still had to pay 100 pounds towaway though....better than 330 they were after...
If you are clamped check the clamper has a valid FRONTLINE SECURITY INDUSTRY AUTHORITY badge, if not call police as they need this to clamp. On the clamping ticket the SIA number will appear,it is a 20 digit number followed by name....first ask who do I have to pay..they will say me.ask did you clamp it..they will say yes as they want the money...then ask where is your SIA badge..IT MUST BE ON DISPLAY FOR FRONTLINE CLAMPERS...if they do not have it say you are calling the police as they cannot clamp. Person that puts the clamp ON must have the frontline SIA badge that appears on the ticket. Some only have one employee with a badge and various guys use the number. Also say you are going to call the SIA in merseyside to report false use of the permit. The guy that comes back and removes clamp does not need a pass so try and get the guy you come across to say that he put the clamp on. Always pay by card if you can as you can call card company straight away and say payment was made by coercion and pressure.....Also you can check on SIA website to see if permit is valid, real and up to date....good luck.

It's completely illegal under our Constitution:

1688/9 Bill of Rights (which establishes Parliament, amongst other things, so they can't get rid of it), which restored recognition of our unalienable Human Rights as expressed via the Common Law, after the Glorious Revolution.

From: Bill of Rights (c.2) - Statute Law Database

"That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular persons before Conviction are illegall and void."

Read it all, then read it again - you may be as gobsmacked as I was when I first read it.

There are at least two other areas that are significant with this regard, the first of which is Magna Carta:

"We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well. "

and the most important, is failure to comply with those very concrete Constitutional requirements, puts our Monarch in breach of her Coronation Oath.

Which of course, is Treason as well as Malfeasance in Office.

Demand a refund.

eta: This is most important to grasp - PAY on the spot fines, THEN claim them back! If you don't pay and go to Court, then due process is carried out. If you make payment with no Court case, then they are in clear breach of the Constitution and MUST pay it back, with damages and costs, and should go to Court as defendants themselves (because acceptance of a payment for a fine prior to conviction, is concrete proof that promises and grants of fines and forfeitures, have actually been carried on - so they fall into a trap of their own making).

I am not sure if the situation is the same in UK as Ireland.

My sister who is a solicitor told me that when you park on private land and there is a parking notice posted you are automatically agreeing to their conditions and you enbter into a civil contract. They can then pursue you in the courts with increasing charges of course.

Some places just issue tickets although I am not sure how they get access to your details to pursue you. However, if they have clamped or towed you then these don't matter.

Personally I find it disagreeable that more and more groups can help themselves to your cash almost at will.