It’s worth going to court to challenge unfair private parking fines, says Alexander Treryth

Private parking companies like to threaten county court judgments, but they are only issued if a case actually goes to court and the judge decides in favour of the parking company (Private car parks: UK drivers seek justice as penalties hit record, 18 January).

My experience of this process was sitting in a court for 40 minutes, trying not to laugh as the judge gave the parking company’s lawyer a severe telling-off. The company was ordered to pay me £150, and the defeat was so humiliating for them that they opted against pursuing another claim six months later.