Letter from Gladstone Solicitors

Tji_2

i can't redact the details and change the picture as i wasn't a member at the time of uploading

Half_way

What happened when you went to ASDA and politely demanded that they cancel the tickets running on the assumption that you didnt take the not our land nothing to do with us mate as an acceptable answer?

Karenmuffintop

I'm in exactly the same position... Asda.. around Christmas last year... got letters from what looked like a back street outfit.. advised to ignore.. I now have a photocopy solicitors letter from Gladstones Solicitors . signed Gladstones solicitors.... saying I have to pay the fine.. it was reduced in an earlier letter ?? was hoping to call and put my case but no direct phone number... only DRPL the parking ticket issuing company.. just about to check company details of both companies.. to see who is in charge... would like to have some advice too.. my 14 days are up 21/7/15 !

Marktheshark

My advice is to make a complaint to the SRA:
http://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor.page#how-report-sra

That the letter is not signed by a person or on behalf of a person or registered solicitor.
That is is confusing and not made clear what it is, is it a LBC is it a debt collecting letter ? is it an official Solicitors letter ? If so why is it not signed by a legal or actual person ?
Why is there no name anywhere on the letter to give it life and who would you complain about, are they acting as solicitors a debt collectors pretending to be so ?

Why are they sending letter that are clearly written to confuse, make threats or cause alarm and distress ?
What are the SRA going to do about it.

Half_way

its not a fine, and what happened when you went to asda to complain? or didnt you bother, instead did you just get all worked up about asda contractor/agent, Smart parking?

bod1467

Marktheshark wrote: »

That the letter is not signed by a person or on behalf of a person or registered solicitor.

Mark - you keep saying this but you've been challenged on this by several other respected forum members to prove the validity of this claim, yet (as far as I am aware) you haven't done so.

So perhaps include proof of your claim whilst making the claim? Otherwise you could be sending people on a wild goose chase.

Ralph-y

Karenmuffintop ........ if you require advice then you will need to start a new thread .....
the reason being that this forum insists on one thread per person .... so as not to get advice mixed up ....

you can find the start a new thread button here ...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=163

please have a read through the newbie thread at the same time

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822

Ralph:cool:

Marktheshark

bod1467 wrote: »

Mark - you keep saying this but you've been challenged on this by several other respected forum members to prove the validity of this claim, yet (as far as I am aware) you haven't done so.

So perhaps include proof of your claim whilst making the claim? Otherwise you could be sending people on a wild goose chase.

The Fundamentals of a signatory in a legal document is quite basic.
It has to be given life as in it has to be signed by a person, an entity, a living being.
It can be signed on behalf of someone else with a prefix such as PP then a signature.
If signed on behalf of a company, it needs a person to sign on behalf of that firm.
There is no such person as Mr Gladstone Solicitors and I am quite sure he does not have his own signature.
Someone has to sign it for them as it is a company.
This however will be deliberate, to avoid someone putting their name to rather stupid letters.
This is not a "claim" or an idea it is "how things are" in the legal world.

Dig out some letters from official bodies, look at the signatories, a company can not give life to a legal document, it has to be a living person.

A correct solicitors letter or LBC would be signed by an actual solicitor of acting in litigation on behalf of a client or on behalf of the solicitors with PP and an actual signature.

It is not, because like most things they send, Toilet paper.

waamo

A couple of lawyers on the Law Forum beg to differ. They say a company is a legal entity in its own right so it is acceptable to sign a document as the company.

http://www.thelawforum.co.uk/format-solicitors-letter

bazster

Mark, you were asked for evidence to back what you keep asserting. All you've done is give a longer-winded assertion, still with no evidence.

You claimed in some recent thread or other that solicitors sending out unsigned letters was a breach of some SRA rule. If that's true you should be able to point us to it without too much trouble, yes?

But frankly, in a world where I can enter into a binding contract with a company without either party signing anything (or even writing anything) your assertion sounds like FMOTL woo-woo to me.