Clamping cars on private land-the law

The law relating to parking enforcement on private land, clamping, charges and so on-is complex and confusing. In the recent case of Michael & Linda Stiles -v- Welcome Financial Services Limited & Collins [2009], Cleggs represented Welcome; the Circuit Judge in the Ipswich County Court examined the current law and held that a finance company cannot be held liable for a parking control company's charges for a car parked unlawfully, and in the circumstances of this case the keeper of the vehicle was not liable for those charges either. You can read the rest of the article here.