However all this does not answer my question."Are DVLA and Vehicle Control Services Limited at risk of criminal prosecution for breach of Data Protection." The vast majority of criminal prosecutions are undertaken by the CPS. There are some prosecutions that are undertaken in court by others e.g. I once sat in on a case at Blackfriars Crown court where the alleged crime was defrauding Royal Mail by selling fake 1st class stamps, and the prosecution was undertaken by Royal Mail, and of course the CPS weren't directly involved in undertaking the prosecutions of Post Masters in the multiple Horizon Scandal cases relatively recently. Private Criminal prosecutions are rare and costly to undertake. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/private-prosecutions/private-prosecutions So, realistically, unless you have large financial resources, any criminal prosecution of the DVLA and Vehicle Control Services Limited would end up being undertaken by the CPS. Do the CPS prosecute without the Police first getting involved and seeking a prosecution - I don't know for a fact, but I doubt it. My partner and I have sued a company, and we had to have solicitors acting on our behalf. We won our case, but the cost of the solicitors is frightening, I can't remember how much we paid our solicitors to pursue the case for us but it was definitely more than £10,000 and this was a solicitor who was giving us mate's rates - if we'd just walked in off the street to the same solicitors we would have paid double. The other thing that also makes it frightening, is that you can win your case, and still end up with a massive bill. How come? If the defendant's solicitors make an offer to settle for say £5k, and you continue your case to the end, win it, and get awarded damages below what you were offered, then you will be liable for the cost of the defandant's solicitors after the point at which you were offered the £5k. In our case, the initial offer was derisory, but we were 'warned' by the defendant's solicitors of what would happen if the court decided to award a lower amount. We decided to carry on, called their bluff, and they eventually paid us what we had made in out initial demand ( as well as paying for our solicitors fees of course).

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 20:08:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 22:20:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 22:38:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 23:00:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 23:23:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	04/01/26 23:52:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 00:03:00	Andrew Jones
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 10:24:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 10:20:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 12:25:00	Andrew Jones
Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 10:48:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 17:34:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 20:46:00	Neil Milkins
Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 21:36:00	Julian Pavey
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Parking Penalty.	05/01/26 21:38:00	Neil Milkins

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