Clarification please -re Solicitors/Debt Recovery

SMarg

I've been here before and successfully fought claim for daughter thanks to many on this forum.


Now again - in brief


She was ticketed on an area which she doesn't believe was well signed (have to receive photo evidence from her) - this was back in August 2014 with a windscreen ticket.


Ignored ticket, ignored follow up two/three letters from Parking Ticketing Ltd and now received solicitors (?) letter from Small Claims Solicitors mentioning 'unless reply within 14 days PTL may issue legal proceedings against you and obtain CCJ etc '


May instruct bailiffs/High court enforcement officers to seize goods etc.


At the bottom of the letter it then refers to contacting the client's debt recovery agent Debt Recovery Plus and this is the part I would like clarification on. I have read the info on the form about Debt Recovery Plus but as this letter hasn't come from them but from Small Claims Solicitors does she continue ignoring them until a court letter arrives and then follow that procedure?


Apologies if I have missed reading that part but everything I have seen refers to time limits less than this where we can refer it back to POPLA and I've been landed with this again!


Thanks again

Redx

just a sc~m letter from the debt recovery firm

all covered in the debt collector post in the NEWBIES sticky thread

HO87

@SMarg

The previous ticket your daughter received - and won the appeal against - was also from PTL. Is this query in relation to the same matter or is this an entirely different issue?

If it is an entirely different matter why did she ignore the PCN rather than appeal it and beat them again?

SMarg

The previous ticket your daughter received - and won the appeal against - was also from PTL. Is this query in relation to the same matter or is this an entirely different issue?

If it is an entirely different matter why did she ignore the PCN rather than appeal it and beat them again?

Entirely different issue. She ignored it because she thought she knew better and now I'm trying to find out the best way to deal with !

SMarg

@Redx


I've spent a couple of hours reading #4 and Debt Recovery and posts on Debt Recovery Plus and how the letters from them should be ignored but as this latest letter came from Small Claims Solicitors does the advice still apply - to ignore?


I looked at going back to POPLA to appeal regardless of time but unsure.


I also went to PTL website to try to see the photograph taken at the time of the 'offence' but nothing comes up that relates to the reference in that letter. Again maybe it is because it is 10months or so later.

Redx

without a popla code from the ppc, you cannot appeal to popla , - PERIOD

one thing you have not done is put the name into the search box and read the countless other threads about them (I have seen many posts about them , which is why I recognised the name)

try this in the search box, then come back and tell me what you have decided having read several

smallclaimssolicitors

try this for starters https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5035663

and https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4881672

SMarg

Thanks Red. I'll trawl through those links.

I realise we can't appeal without a POPLA code but from what I understand from the posts there isn't a fixed time limit to request a code. - or maybe 10 months is too long

Redx

SMarg wrote: »

Thanks Red. I'll trawl through those links.

I realise we can't appeal without a POPLA code but from what I understand from the posts there isn't a fixed time limit to request a code. - or maybe 10 months is too long

you could request one at any time , you could appeal at any time , the time limit would be 6 years which is the statute on small claims court

if court papers were issued, you could ask the court to allow popla for mediation , that way they would have to issue a popla code if a judge directed it , even after 5.5 years

SMarg

Thanks again

SMarg

@Redx - :beer:

Have read through many links re Debt Recovery Plus and Small Claims Solicitors (in fact not just a cup of tea - a whole urn!)

There are mixed posts as to fire off a letter to Small Claims Solicitors denying the claim and others state to ignore as they are not real Solicitors. Some of the posts are a year old, some newer.

As there is no address nor telephone number on their letter I have to assume continuing ignoring - would that be correct?

If this gets too complicated and time consuming I think i will need to hand over to parkingappeals who I understand are legit.

Thanks

Redx

I would follow the advice I have given, but its your choice

I have never dealt with these people nor had any paperwork, so cannot answer what I dont know

Personally I would ignore unless an LBC or MCOL turned up, you must do as you see fit, based upon the paperwork you have and the advice on forums such as this one