From: Ronald Raygun 
Subject: Re: Unauthorised Overdraft Charges
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:01:35 GMT

tim..... wrote:

> "Tim"  wrote in message news:-OCdneujGI6Vc7TbRVnyjgA@bt.com...
>> "tim....." wrote
>>> Is the charge for removing a (private) clamp:
>>>
>>> a) a contractually agreed charge for removing the clamp
>>>
>>> or,
>>>
>>> b) liquidated damages for parking
>>> somewhere that you shouldn't, for which
>>> the clamp is the enforcement mechanism?
>>
>> Well - it was found, in court, actually to be blackmail...
> 
> only in Scotland

We don't have blackmail in Scotland.  Only extortion.