Do you legally have to pay parking tickets/fines/notices?

[TW]Fox;27991725 said:
You can of course take it to court if you wish. If you were wrong, you will be ordered to pay. If you were not, you will not.

The idea behind fixed penalty notices is to save both you and the council the bother of court. In return for this you pay a lower penalty.

If you were guilty of whatever the council issued FPN is for there is nothing to be gained from not paying, exercising your right to take it to court will just cost you more time, money and hassle. If you were not guilty, then raise a dispute in the way it explains you can.
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This basically.

If you didn't do whatever you got the ticket for, you should have appealed it through the proper channels.

If you did then all you've done by refusing to pay is buy* yourself some additional time before payment.

I use the word buy* because if this does go to court and you are found liable then you will have to pay the original fine, plus collection & court costs which will be significantly higher than the original amount (as you can see by the fact that it is now up to £400), not to mention the inconvenience to you.

Of course you can decide to ignore any court orders as well, which means if a judgement is made against you then bailiffs can come to take to your stuff - they're most likely to take your car, which, on the plus side means you wont have to worry about any more parking tickets :p
 
They will come and take your car or clamp it u until you pay if they have turned it over to bailiffs, always pay a council ticket!
 
You don't want to mess with council tickets, I know someone that decided to ignore two tickets given on different occasions for parking on a yellow line during restricted hours. Last time we spoke the council have upped it to £1000 something each
 
If it was council and you did contravene the parking restrictions you really should have just paid it.
 
Tbh the op really does read like one of those "freemen of the land" nutters... Wonder if he has an issue with paying his TV licence as well...
 
The fact that bailiffs are attending your house suggest to me that yes, yes you do legally have to pay parking tickets/fines/notices.
 
Lol this is hilarious. OP has either drastically misunderstood the comments people make about ignoring tickets or is one of those nutters.

Either way, I'd guess the car might be "stolen" soon. Seems like a ludicrous scenario to happen for the sake of making some sort of point (??) or to save 50 quid. They can, and will, turn up at 5am and tow the car away to recover the debt
 
Nothing provided you don't meet the criteria for the requirement to purchase one.

I hear you don't need to pay parking tickets if you don't park a car, either.
 
[TW]Fox;27996080 said:
Nothing provided you don't meet the criteria for the requirement to purchase one.

I hear you don't need to pay parking tickets if you don't park a car, either.
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Exactly, but there was a distinct lack of context, plus there are some people who believe that everyone should pay it because "the BBC is good value".
 
spoffle said:
Exactly, but there was a distinct lack of context, plus there are some people who believe that everyone should pay it because "the BBC is good value".
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I don't think anyone believes people who don't receive live TV broadcasts should pay for a TV license (or at least continues to believe so when the requirement is explained).

That would be like taxing a car you only ever use in your own field.
 
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