Top tip: Provided you've not received a PCN from the council... do not pay, and do not contact the company EVER, not even to contest the PCN.
These parking charges are a civil matter, not criminal, and essentially the parking operator is claiming you broke a contract with them, which you had agreed to when you parked your car.
If you refuse to pay they can take you to court but are unlikely to, and they can only claim the reasonable damages of you breaking the contract.
You will likely receive threatening letters from the parking operator up until you actually go to court.
Any threats of bailiffs is total BS. Only the court can send bailiffs and only if you don't pay what the court has demanded.
As the article says, these companies make their money by people paying uncontested fines.
I'm not advocating for @Flax at all here, but I think it's generally accepted that someone called Jesus (there were a LOT of people named Jesus back in the day) did exist and was something of a teacher.
Setup felt like a nightmare but once everything is up and running it's fine.
The other issue is maintenance which is where I gave up. Easier and more painless to just pay another company to do that and not have to worry about server security, spam, the endless SSH requests for 'admin', etc etc
What I don't understand, so please forgive my naivety, is that surely Equans is in breach of contract, so the schools and/or council could sue? I'm wondering why that hasn't happened...
I remember having that "net" version of a MiniDisc player, and I would have kept it but it was SO slow to copy music from your computer onto the device.
Plus eBay had those stick shaped MP3 players for about £25 which could hold around an album's worth of music, and transfer times were much faster; although slow by today's standard
Pure Browser, and then I disable Javascript.
Give it a try! Browsing the internet is lightning fast, and for pages that need Javascript I just load them in my other browser (Ecosia)
new funding for a confidential service to provide prevention therapy to potential offenders before they commit that horrid act against a child.
THIS.
I would recommend watching "Louis Theroux - Among the sex offenders" to get a better understanding of the lack of treatment available for people who don't want to offend but feel compelled. Some of them are crying out for treatment!
From the article / post:
" The soldier who fired the shots describes entering the home and encountering only one unarmed Palestinian, gesturing and saying, 'No, no.' "
He openly admits to shooting an unarmed Palestinian man.
Top tip: Provided you've not received a PCN from the council... do not pay, and do not contact the company EVER, not even to contest the PCN.
These parking charges are a civil matter, not criminal, and essentially the parking operator is claiming you broke a contract with them, which you had agreed to when you parked your car.
If you refuse to pay they can take you to court but are unlikely to, and they can only claim the reasonable damages of you breaking the contract.
You will likely receive threatening letters from the parking operator up until you actually go to court.
Any threats of bailiffs is total BS. Only the court can send bailiffs and only if you don't pay what the court has demanded.
As the article says, these companies make their money by people paying uncontested fines.
(IANAL)