Northampton CCBC Claim Form

Ed666_2

Hi,

Wondered if I could get some advice about this.

My car was in receipt of a PCN (the parking kind, even though it was cleverly disguised as a real PCN, yellow and black stripes on the plastic envelope and all) on 17/8/12.

I checked the forums and the advice was generally to ignore it, as it wasn't a real fine etc.

Cue the normal procession of threatening letters, usually with a few months between each one.

I've now received a Claim form from Northampton County Court (asking for less than they've asked me for previously strangely), which I've checked on the site is genuine.

I was looking through the other threads, and noticed a point about the Notice to Owner form, and the timescale for issuing it. According to the first dated letter I have from them, the ticket was issued on 17/8/12, and they sent a Notice to Owner on 12/11/12.

I don't seem to be able to find this notice to owner, not sure if I received it or not, but does the fact that they waited almost 3 months mean they missed their window to ask for this, as was suggested in the thread I was reading - that they only have 28 days plus 28 days from the day after it is issued.

So my question is should I just dispute the full amount and leave it at that, or should I write to them referring them to this issue as well, or to someone else?

Thanks for any help people can supply.

Ed

Stroma

You fail to mention who issued this ticket, can you supply that please? Also as this is a pre pofa 2012 ticket, they can only hold liable the driver, were you as the registered keeper this ? Unless you have put the incorrect year??

Thanks

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

Pcn nw by any chance?

Ed666_2

It's SIP Parking Limited who are the claimants.

No it was actually over a year ago. lol

I saw in other threads (possibly old ones) that you shouldn't admit whether you were the driver or not?

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

That's right and being pre pofa. It's good to add in the not driver defence if you were not the driver.

They have issued a few claims recently

Stroma

And weren't they going by the name of

Stop Illegal Parking

Back then ? Do you have anything with that on ?

Ed666_2

Yes, their letters have Stop Illegal Parking on under the logo, but have SIP Parking limited in the top corner.

Stroma

Well ensure that you bring that to the defence, whilst it probably won't have a huge bearing on anything, it will show that its a claim of authority.

So what to do now is login into mcol , acknowledge the claim, defend in full, ask for 28 days to do that. Can you just confirm you've done that

Ed666_2

I've not done it yet, I read on another thread to leave it until close to the deadline to allow more time to set up the defense letter etc.

As this is pre pofa, does the 8 week deadline for the Notice to Owner apply in this case, does anyone know?

Stroma

If you don't do anything until the last minute ensure that you do it before day 14 otherwise you lose by default, you must acknowledge, defend in full and ask for those 28 days

zzzLazyDaisy

Ed666 wrote: »

I've not done it yet, I read on another thread to leave it until close to the deadline to allow more time to set up the defense letter etc.

Just do it now, it makes no difference how early you file the acknowledgement as the 28 days runs from service of the claim.