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       Excess charge notices - guidance for those giving advice.
       By: ivanleo Date: May 27, 2024, 12:25 pm
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       If anyone posts an Excess Charge Notice in any part of the
       forum, please do not advise the OP to pay. Flag the thread to me
       and I will deal with it appropriately. The same goes for any
       police FPNs issued in respect of what appears to be a civil
       parking contravention.
       These sorts of cases are very rare but when they come up they
       require detailed investigation, telling someone to pay without
       carrying out those investigations would be negligent if you were
       a qualified lawyer because it could prejudice the OP's case.
       While it is true that nobody gets paid for giving advice and we
       are all volunteers, we should not be giving bad advice.
       If you don't know what relevant investigations need to be
       carried out, then by definition you are not qualified to give
       advice on the topic of ECNs.
       Advising someone to pay in a case where you are not qualified to
       do so is also a breach of House Rule 3
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       because it
       qualifies as poor advice.
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       Re: Excess charge notices - guidance for those giving advice.
       By: ivanleo Date: June 26, 2024, 1:00 pm
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       Case in point:
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       I don't have the original Pepipoo link but I'm sure the OP was
       advised to just pay by at least one or two people. Advice along
       the lines of "Oh it's ever so difficult to go to the
       Magistrates' Court, you're better off just giving up and paying
       because [costs / difficult / whatever else]" that does not even
       consider whether there are any viable defences will not be
       tolerated on this site.
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