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Defence of Court Claim By DCB Legal
Hi all, I have received a court claim regarding a parking charge from DCB Legal (on behalf of UKPC) please see attached below - I would appreciate some guidance regarding the particulars of claim and the best defence in this case. Please note that I have read the newbies thread and will be submitting AOS via MCOL today…
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MET Parking - DCB Legal Letter of Claim for Overstay
Hi All, I have read the newbies post and have some questions and guidance. Apologies for the long message. I have had a bunch of PCNs from around March 2021 from MET Parking for instances of alleged contravention of leaving vehicle in a fast food chain's car park while occupants left the fast food chain's premises and one…
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DCB Legal - through to small claim. Help would be appreciated...
First time poster on this forum and so any help would be appreciated. Claim has now got to the point of receiving the claim from the Court. I have followed the steps in the guid and have completed the AOS. I have about 2 weeks left to submit my defence. Bit of background - car was parked in car park operated by I Park…
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Euro Car Parks Claim
I need to put a defence in against a claim made towards me by DCB Legal LTD on behalf of Euro Car Parks for 3 parking charges bundled up into one between 20/01/24 - 29/10/24, for the following reason: The defendant is pursued as the driver of this vehicle for breach of the terms on the signs (the contract). Reason: No…
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PCN F1rst Parking company in Sussex
I received a PCN (parking charge notice) at Uni of sussex. I wrote this back to them as an appeal: xxx----xxx Dear Sir/Madam As the registered keeper of xxxxxx, I am writing to formally challenge the above Parking Charge Notice on the basis that I was not driving the vehicle at the time of the parking event. F1rst parking…
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Driving through Hungary EPC PLC
Hi guys, I know this has been covered but haven’t seen anything recent or updates from people who sought advice. we were driving through Hungary back in August and have now received a charge of £107.37 if we pay within 60 days of receiving the letter 14/10/25 if not charges goes up. It’s our fault we did not purchase a…
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Howard centre WGC
family member recieved this pcn. they believed they paid but no confirmation was shown, the machine just displayed next customer. checking their bank statement no payment was taken. Can this be got out of? seems its pofa compliant ie within 14 days ?
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ECP DCB LEGAL claim 2025
Brief Backstory: Parked in a ECP car park and paid for parking. Changed address so didn't get notice until passed to DCBL. DCBL ignored and now received Letter of Claim through from DCB Legal. Reason for 'Parking Charge' given: ‘No valid Pay And Display/permit Was Purchased’ I have all the evidence to support I paid for…
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New Manchester Airport Pick Up Parking Charge (APCOA)
Looks typical of others. Dropped off and completely forgot to pay. Once remembered, it was too late to pay! After the parking charge was received in the post, I checked here and found it would be pretty simple to appeal. However, some of the templates are referring “Relevant Land” and POFA. On the parking charge received,…
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Euro Car Parks / DCB Legal - Claim Defence
Hello All, Again, annoying to have to be back with yet another PCN but I'm again fairly confident about defending this claim. Mostly making this thread to document and make sure I don't overlook the obvious. So this claim is as a result of a PCN I got from my gym carpark which operates a "whitelist" style parking. I'm sure…
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Verbal order by Judge not on court order - Costs
Hello, Some background info before i get into my question... In spring of this year I attended a local county court for a PCN received at London Excel. Gladstones were the solicitors who took on the case and were asking for £270. I emailed Gladstones after receiving an LBC and advised them to look back to 2020 when i beat…
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NPC / DCBL Notice of Debt Recovery. Advice Needed before Midnight Please.
[If possible- please can somebody offer advice today] Hi, To clarify, before summarising the situation, I have read tons of old posts and and all of the beginner guide (which is incredibly useful). I received a parking fine from NPC at Myrtle Parade, Liverpool, L77AA around 4 months ago after parking there for 15 minutes…
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Smart Parking DCB legal defence
Hello, I previously had a post deleted, and i am unsure why as couldn;t see the comments before i deleted, so I am trying again after doing some research on how best to handle these defences. So this is my defence so far 1. The Claimant’s sparse case lacks specificity and does not comply with CPR 16.4, 16PD3 or 16PD7,…
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Parked to charge an Electric Vehicle
Hi On 10/08/25 I parked my EV at the Premier Inn to charge the vehicle. After 15 days I was sent a Parking Charge Notice from Horizon Parking as shown in the attachment. On receiving the letter I called Premier Inn to ask about the parking rules and the receptionist said that parking at the EV bay was free up to 90 mins (…
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Parking charge notice
I have received a parking charge notice but I haven't been driving the car on that day actually it was my daughter. On the photos all I can see is car driving on the road there is no any parking display or so .She could come in and leave as many times as she wanted because the only thing I can see is a car on the road no…
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PCN from EPC PLC for vignette from Hungary
I received a Penalty Charge Notice from EPC PLC (81.71 GBP / 36 for the ticket and 45.71 for administrative costs) that i drove through Hungary without a valid vignette even though I bought one just not in the 60 minutes time since the first gas station was full and I tried to buy it from Romania before entering and they…
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Parking Charge Notice Patcham High School, One Parking Solutions
Good afternoon forum users, So, One Parking Solutions have struck again! I was taking my daughter to swimming at Patcham High School. We usually park right next to the school in the 'lower' car park as advised by the swimming club. On this occasion all the parking spaces in the lower car park were full. I doubled back up…
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MET Southgate Park now quoting Stansted injunction in POPLA response
Good morning MET are now quoting the 2024 Stansted Airport to injunction which does not include Southgate Park as part of their POPLA appeals. I am helping a friend (in a personal capacity) on this appeal to POPLA. Now we all know the map related to the injunction is for the injunction, not the byelaws and there is lots of…
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Biting back with a vengeance
I've won several PCN appeal lately, mostly ia POPLA and am now taking on another. I can easily appeal this one based on other things such as the issuer already has details of my blue badge, as confirmed by a previous successfully appealed case. However I'm going at this one from a novel standpoint where I am going to use…
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MANOR PARKING, GLADSTONES court claim 2025
Having read newbies pages, I remain a little confused as to the best defence to a small claims court claim from Gladstones Solicitors on behalf of Manor Parkings PCN regarding Lotties Road Birmingham in 2024. I wrote to Manor parking at the time (copy below) but they ignored my letter. I did later find a scanned copy of my…
