CPP parking ticket- ICC legal services notice of legal proceedings

The_Slithy_Tove

dj12345 wrote: »

I'm unsure if im looking at the right sticky

See post #2, and click the link. It's really not that hard.

dj12345

having read post 2 and 4 and reading some conflicting threads I'm totally unsure what to do next. I appreciate all of your help but I still don't know the best thing to do; ignore, write to the DR, landowner or Car parking partnership that issued me the charge.
I am worried that if i actually acknowlege these letters with a letter of my own then I am accepting wrong-doing and will have to pay the fine. I recieved the fine at university and being a student I certianly don't have the £110 to pay the charge.

Coupon-mad

some conflicting threads

= OLD threads!

I still don't know the best thing to do; ignore, write to the DR, landowner or Car parking partnership that issued me the charge.
I am worried that if i actually acknowlege these letters with a letter of my own then I am accepting wrong-doing

Your choice, I give you the options in the NEWBIES thread and that advice is continually updated. Shame you missed the appeal chance really (next time!). Writing back is NOT accepting wrong-doing or I wouldn't list it as an option! And I think you've misunderstood - you NEVER write as the driver, so how can a keeper accept wrongdoing by 'the driver'?!

I recieved the fine at university and being a student I certianly don't have the £110 to pay the charge.

Hope you are not an English student (received = correct spelling...sorry!). You don't tell them who was driving and you don't use your Uni address if you do choose to respond AS KEEPER. You either ignore it all still, or you robustly respond as in the linked examples in the section about 'too late to appeal'. And the hyperlink under 'robustly respond' in the NEWBIES thread doesn't tell you to write as driver admitting to what happened!

Does it help your decision to know that CPP have NOT tried a court claim that I can ever recall - and certainly NONE in the last year as we have the results of a FOI request from the courts. If you do carry on ignoring that is an acceptable choice, an informed decision. And do keep all the letters for years just in case it ever rears its head again if CPP decide to take a punt with a small claim (very defendable!).

dj12345

Yes, I have never recieved a parking charge or anything before so I've had no experience of such matters. Was just under the impression that it was a private company issuing the charge and they have no authority; councils etc were the only guys who could issue a fine.
This letter recieved today "notice of legal proceedings" threatening
1) judgement being awarded against you which will affect your credit status
2)warrant of execution for enforcement by the county court baliff
if debt isn't paid in full within the next 7 days
Is this a DR letter or a legal letter?

Coupon-mad

You'd know that if you had read about the letter chain on other ICC threads. It's a DR letter. Please read my advice above as I have added more to the edit.

bod1467

Sounds like a typical threatogram. I don't think you've been served with an court claim yet ... is there a court reference on it? Or does it state Letter Before Action/Letter Before Claim/Letter Before County Court Claim?

Coupon-mad

bod1467 wrote: »

Sounds like a typical threatogram. I don't think you've been served with an court claim yet ... is there a court reference on it? Or does it state Letter Before Action/Letter Before Claim/Letter Before County Court Claim?

It's the same letter that's been used for years by that Debt collector, leads to nothing. As is also shown in the sticky thread called 'PPC letter chains' which has been running for YEARS and has the best letter chain pics under the pre-POFA Oct 12 early link.

dj12345

Thanks for your response; you are correct I have skipped over some of the info and misread/misunderstood some of it just due to the little panic I am in at the moment. Which I guess is ignoring your first bit of advice "DR stage- don't panic" haha.
One letter is from Car parking patnership, one is from ICC legal services/industrial credit but the tear off pay slip thing at the bottom is British Parking Association.
Is the next stage for them to serve a court claim? which you have said they haven't bothered to do in the past year.
thanks again

Redx

firstly, its not a fine, despite your assertion, its a parking charge notice, which is an INVOICE

they can take you to court within 6 YEARS of the event so I hardly think somebody hearing nothing for 10 months is a valid argument and if they come unstuck and receive a set of court papers it would quash your claim that ignoring is valid , just the same as if two of you were speeding in cars and your friend "got away" and you were stopped, your defence cannot rest on saying (my friend got away with it , therefore I should too)

there is plenty of info on here if you used the search tool, I did so and found lots of info in less than 5 minutes , so I would have thought a student could use these research tools when they have been pointed out to them

at the moment it seems like a DC letter and I said so in my first reply, because I have read numerous threads on here with the same info

never assume you are the only one, generally its the same stuff every day, like Groundhog Day on here

ps:- the BPA part is the trade body they belong to , they oversee these companies (lol) but they dont issue tickets and you dont pay them any money either

Coupon-mad

Is the next stage for them to serve a court claim? which you have said they haven't bothered to do in the past year.

Before a court claim the actual company (CPP) or their solicitor (not ICC!) would need to send you a Letter before Claim (see the LBCCC Fightback sticky thread if you get one of those to respond to). NEVER heard of anything else from ICC or CPP though after the usual pink letter and misleading stuff.