Letter Before Claim (LBC) Gladstone Solicitors and Link Parking

roboyj

Hi all,

I have received a letter before claim in regards to two PCNs (both window tickets) issued to me in a residential car park earlier this year. The first I responded to and the second I received no NTK until the letter from Gladstone. I have submitted an appeal (out of date by this point to the IAS/IPC and declined anyway) which I have copied in below as this covers the circumstances in detail.

My question is regarding my reply to this LBC (copied in below) and what I should include in my reply. I have read the guidance on the thread titled "Parking - Letter Before Action? Letter Before County Court Claim? Fight back!". Although helpful I feel that the letter from gladstone covers all the bases with regard to the usual errors found on these LBC.

Any help would be greatly appreciated and I intend on making regular updates with the progress of this so that others can refer to my experience.

LBC sent to myself (wont allow me to make direct link):
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roboyj

To follow up:

I have sent an acknowledgement to Gladstone on the 06/11 asking for a compliant letter to fill the gaps on the LBCC. Today I received a phone call from a solicitor of Gladstone (no ideas where they got my mobile number) explaining that I should have sent them a detailed account of my experience up to the point that gladstone became involved. He seemed very familar with the standard "your LBCC doesn't comply letter!". Are they allowed to request this?

The solicitor told me that this is to allow them to come to a resolution that doesn't involve the courts. I am now lost on all honesty.

hoohoo

They are suing you, not the other way round, so it is up to them to provide the information. Any information you gave them will be used against you.


Here is Gan's advice on pepipoo. It would need a slight edit as they already phoned.

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showtopic=94457&st=20&start=20

Dear Sir


Ref *****

I note your email response to my message.
I find the response misleading and unhelpful.

I will not waste my time telephoning your office.

Annex A Para 2 is quite clear that the Letter Before Claim must provide all of the information required to enable me to make a response.

It is not acceptable to refer to some previous documents that I may or may not have received.
Neither are you entitled to pick and choose which parts of the Practice Direction to comply with.

I am therefore requesting for a second time that you provide a Letter Before Claim that complies in every detail with the requirements of Annex A.

Any other response will be referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority

Yours Faithfully