Paste a parking thread, get the case cards

For the people who answer other drivers’ threads on forums. Paste the thread, or the words on a notice or a court paper. For each operator it names you get the case card from that operator’s page here, and for each dated paper, the days the rules count from that date.

Nothing you paste is stored or logged, and it is never put in a web address. It is read in this one request and sent back to your screen. What we keep.

From the forum page, with one click

Drag this link to your bookmarks bar: Case cards for the selection. On a forum thread, select the text and click the bookmark. This page opens in a new tab with the cards. The selected text goes in the body of the request, never in the address.

A forum whose security settings refuse forms sent to other sites will stop the bookmark. Then copy the text and paste it into the box above. Clicking the link on this page does nothing; it only works from the bookmarks bar.

What it reads, and what it will not guess

• Operators by company name or the shorthand forum regulars use (ParkingEye, UKPC, ECP, VCS). A name made only of plain words, such as Civil Enforcement, counts only with its Ltd or Limited, because a council’s civil enforcement officer is not a company.
• Collection firms and solicitors (DCB Legal, DCBL, Debt Recovery Plus) get a line, not an operator card: the claimant is the company in the particulars.
• Dates day first, the UK way. A date with no year is not counted. A date is counted only when the words just before it name the paper: a claim form, a letter of claim, a judgment, a notice to keeper or the parking itself. Otherwise it is listed and left for you to place in the court clock or the deadline calculator.