Chip shop owner challenges private parking charge at Supreme Court
ByPress Association
Barry Beavis is challenging the legality of parking charges imposed by private car park operators on motorists who overstay.
Supreme Court justices have started to hear a case involving a chip shop owner embroiled in a legal battle about parking charges.
Barry Beavis, of Chelmsford, Essex, has challenged private car park operators who charged him £85 for overstaying his allotted two hours of free parking.
He says the charge was excessive, unfair and “legally unenforceable”.
A Supreme Court hearing began in London today and is due to end later this week.
Seven justices are examining Mr Beavis’s case as part of an analysis of legal issues relating to penalty clauses and contracts.
They are due to analyse evidence in a linked case involving a company and a commercial contract today and tomorrow before examining Mr Beavis’s case in detail on Thursday.
Justices are unlikely to deliver a ruling until later in the year.
Mr Beavis has already lost fights in a county court and in the Court of Appeal.
Chip shop owner challenges private parking charge at Supreme Court
