>> In Scotland you can just ignore private parking invoices.
>> You still have to pay Police & Local Authority fines.
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>> The car owner is not liable and he/she are not required to say who was
>> driving the car.
That of course used to be broadly the case in England and Wales. The Protection of Freedoms Act made the owner liable. Then the Supreme Court's decision in the Beavis case clarified the contractual position vis a vis the car park operator and that charges similar to those levied as fines on local authority car parks were reasonable.
Since then the parking companies, or at least some of them, have been much more willing to take and pursue cases in the County Court. There is also anecdotal evidence of District Judges giving short shrift to various spurious defences picked up from the net, often from sources that are ignorant of or predate Beavis.
Advice now is that while ignoring it and hoping it's not pursued is an option you need to to be watchful in case a summons arrives. At that point, absent a proper defence, you're going to be paying a lot more than the discounted rate for holding your hand up quickly.
The other point is that for all of the talk of 'vultures' controlling abuse of private land for parking is legitimate end. Ask anybody who lives near a tube station.
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