ZZPS/Wright Hassall Threatening County Court Proceedings

aaarrrggh

pappa_golf wrote: »

they were for many years a respectable company , however they have now "sold their souls" in order to survive

aaarrrgh

have since visited Liverpool airport, and have noticed they now have much more visible signs that quite clearly state something along the lines of "You will be fined £100 if you park in this area", but that certainly was not the case when I went through this situation.
where those the words used?

They most certainly were not the words used, but I didn't take a photo of the signs at the time (I didn't know anything about committing any kind of offence - legitimately too, I really did not notice any sign at the time). I have since noticed the much clearer signs that do mention the £100 fine very prominently, but in 2014 when this happened, they most certainly were either not there or nowhere near as prominent.

The_Deep

My advice would be to put pressure on WH. If they have mentioned Beavis v PE complain until you are blue in the face. Complain to the SRA, the CAA. Trading Standards. (but only in writing), local papers, radio stations, Twitter, Facebook, your M.P., local Chamber of Commerce, etc.

Cause them to spend time and money defending their once good name.

aaarrrggh

Just thought I'd update this thread again just incase people get here from Google or whatever in the future. As of today (17/2/2016), I'm yet to hear from them once again. I simply ignored their last letter.

beamerguy

aaarrrggh wrote: »

Just thought I'd update this thread again just incase people get here from Google or whatever in the future. As of today (17/2/2016), I'm yet to hear from them once again. I simply ignored their last letter.

Wright Hassall ...... please see this

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/british-parking-association-appoint.html

In a nutshell, the BPA has joined the infamous industry of scammers

HO87

I have no idea whether this point has already been made in this thread or not but it is worth repeating.

The original debt collector in the process was ZZPS which is effectively the phoenix of Roxburghe UK Ltd (in administration) and appear mysteriously to have inherited many of Roxburghe's letter formats and even occupy the same offices - although they use a different name for it (Roxburghe's address used to be Roxburghe House, Lavender Park Road, W. Byfleet - ZZPS's is Manor House, Lavender Park Road, W. Byfleet. Manor House was the name for Roxburghe House before Roxburghe moved into it).

Before going to the wall Roxburghe were renowned for sending out threatening letters on solicitors' letterheads that they effectively rented the use of. For many years letters were sent out in the name of Graham White & Co (that coincidentally used the Manor House, Lavender Park Road address) when in reality the letters came from Roxburghe direct without any supervision or oversight by a solicitor - and print-outs produced by Roxburghe in court cases proved this was the case.

At length, Graham White & Co went the way of all flesh and Roxburghe were left to cast around for a new supplier of letterheads happening across GPB Solicitors from Stratford-on-Avon. GPB even went to the length of changing their Law Society registration to show that members of their staff were actually based in Roxburghe's offices (one might conclude that was an indication either of the sheer number of solicitors letters that Roxburghe were generating or that the SRA were already sniffing around). In any event GPB were closed down by the SRA for an unrelated matter.

Then along came WH.

Given the history is there any reason to think that WH letters aren't produced in West Byfleet in exactly the same way and for the same reasons as Graham White and GPB letters were?

I respectfully suggest that the mere fact that the WH letters bear a Leamington phone number is not indicative of anything as far as the location of a letter's origin is concerned.

yotmon

It appears that WH have a separate wing for dealing with debt recovery. This was lifted from their website. And a charge of £5.00 for a letter before action seems reasonable to me - I bet it appears as £50.00 by the time it gets added to the costs though.

Debt recovery

Wright Hassall has significant experience in recovering debts on behalf of banks, financial and insurance institutions, corporates, retailers, SMEs and individual traders. We offer the flexibility of collecting debts either through Wright Hassall, our separate Debt Collection Agency (DCA) QDR Solicitors, or using a multi-phased strategy that combines them both.


Business debt collection

Every business will have debts that it struggles to collect and judgments which may have been secured but which have never been enforced.

The debt collection team are experts at commercial debt collection working with businesses - corporates and SMEs - to collect business debts on a cost effective basis. Typically, letters before action can be sent for under £5.

If you have outstanding debts, complete the short form below and begin the process of recovering monies that are owed to your business.

Coupon-mad

Can't have been Excel at Liverpool Airport anyway, although I see the OP said 'yes it was Excel originally' further back in the first posts here. Must have been VCS.

So there is no way Excel have any cause of action, they don't even have signs up or a contract with the Airport.

hoohoo

WH are well known for not actually knowing which company they were acting for.

I suggest a formal complaint to Rhys Jarman.
https://www.wrighthassall.co.uk/footer-links/legal/complaints-policy/


Dear Mr Jarman,
I wish to complain that your company are accusing me of owing a debt to Excel parking for an event at Liverpool Airport. However, Excel Parking do not have any signage or authority at Liverpool Airport.

Please therefore cease and desist from writing to me.

POPLA

Additionally I understand you are dealing with a number of cases under the POPLA brand, so if your company fails to understand these basics of contract law and continues to harass me, I will bring this to the attention of the POPLA board.

aaarrrggh

So these scam artists are back at it again. This time they have passed the details on to "BW Legal", who are now threatening to issue a CCJ against us if we don't pay up inside the next 10 days.

This is the first specific threat of this nature from these scumbags, so I'm not sure what I should do here. My policy so far has been to ignore them. I'm not paying them, so what next?

aaarrrggh

Just so this shows up in Google:

BW LEGAL - scumbags, cowboys, idiots, robbers, liars, cheats, and for good measure another "scumbags".

Anyone been threatened like this before and managed to make these scam artists go away?