Penalty for overstaying parking time limit upheld by Court of Appeal

In Parkingeye Ltd v Beavis [2015] EWCA Civ 402 (23 April 2015)  the Court of Appeal has found that a charge of £85 for overstaying a 2-hour time limit in a car park was neither extravagant nor unconscionable and that the court should therefore not decline to enforce the contract. The appeal was dismissed.

The court considered (a) whether the charge was unenforceable at common law
because it is a penalty; and (b) whether it was unfair and therefore
unenforceable by virtue of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
Regulations 1999. It found that it was neither.