article_snippet.sent: Millions of motorists face spiralling parking fines after judges ruled yesterday that £85 was not an 'excessively high' penalty for staying too long in a car park.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile motoring groups said the ruling was a victory for the parking cowboys and would open the floodgates for unscrupulous profit-hungry firms 'falling over unscrupulous profit-hungry firms '' to ramp up the already hefty penalties unscrupulous profit-hungry firms ' impose.
article_snippet.sent: But for the average hard-pressed motorist trying to make ends meet, it's a very heavy and unfair burden.'
article_snippet.sent: Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said the ruling would hand parking firms a 'blank cheque' to milk drivers, adding: 'This decision could cost motorists millions. '
article_snippet.sent: Our fear is that parking firms will now be falling over parking firms to raise parking firms penalty charges and punish drivers.'
article_snippet.sent: : Many motorists face steep fines for running a few minutes over Many motorists allotted time .
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday ParkingEye welcomed the judgment, saying ParkingEye gave 'clarity to motorists and the parking industry' and 'further confirms that our parking charges are fair, reasonable and legally enforceable'.
article_snippet.sent: But speaking outside court, Mr Beavis said: 'our parking charges are fair, reasonable and legally enforceable are not run on a moral basis, our parking charges are fair, reasonable and legally enforceable're only out to make as much money as our parking charges are fair, reasonable and legally enforceable can, to profiteer from unsuspecting motorists.
article_snippet.sent: Cancer sufferers and patients whose treatments have over-run are among those who have been ripped off by the parking firms.