5 year old parking ticket rears its head again!

Fixtrace6

Let us know what you do. I started my own thread about a 4 year old pcn at jla. I am drafting a reply to bw legal. I will post how it goes on.
Out of curiosity was your letter from bw legal signed BW Legal as if that was a person? If so, it cannot be a letter before action as they must be from an individual (so I have been told). I'm curious to know how you get on.
dltbgyd

fil_cad

Have fun with them, pay monopoly money :rotfl:

Coupon-mad

Fixtrace6 wrote: »

Out of curiosity was your letter from bw legal signed BW Legal as if that was a person? If so, it cannot be a letter before action as they must be from an individual (so I have been told).

That's rubbish! Who told you that? Solicitors very often sign in the name of the firm, it is normal practice.

I believe both posters here should respond robustly to BW Legal but then the amount of threads we have here about these letters, I expect they both know that from their reading of the forum.

BW Legal threads are coming out of our ears with some good examples of response letters all over the place (and on pepipoo forum too).

Fixtrace6

Thanks Coupon Mad. Didn't realise solicitors just signed by their company name.
Have made a BW Legal comment on another page to do with a 4 year old pcn.

Coupon-mad

Fixtrace6 wrote: »

Thanks Coupon Mad. Didn't realise solicitors just signed by their company name.
Have made a BW Legal comment on another page to do with a 4 year old pcn.

No need to ask any questions - everything is already covered in the umpteen dozen threads about these letters on pepipoo, we must have seen close to a hundred threads about them by now. Start reading (if not at court stage do NOT get bogged down reading defences/claim threads):

http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=60

And LoveNorfolk's thread* on here is worth reading for the SRA and CSA complaints to send about BW Legal's misleading letters. Everyone needs to be complaining like this about these letters (obviously not just copying the examples in LoveNorfolk's thread completely, firstly check your letters actually state the same things...). Certainly the same wording can be used/adapted and copied if relevant.

Get complaining and keep responding to BW Legal, which seems to stop court papers arriving as you then tie them up in replies and also, responding to those formal complaints.



*No link to LoveNorfolk's thread given, I never give easy links, posters need to search & research...

Mareczek

Hi,
I would be grateful for any advice on how to deal with an MCOL relating to an alleged parking infringement on 22 August 2012.

My daughter has received a set of Claim Forms today (5 January 2018) from the County Court Business Centre in Northampton, initiated by BW Legal Services on behalf of the Clamant, Excel Parking Services.

She appealed against the PCN promptly in 2012, on the grounds that she had never ever parked her car in The Square Chorlton - !!! - Hardy, Manchester. On the date concerned she drove onto the car park with her late Grandmother as a passenger, hoping to find a disabled space, as her grandmother was a wheelchair user. There were no disabled spaces available, so she left the car park immediately via the other entrance / exit.

Some time later, after having lunch elsewhere in Manchester, she returned to The Square Car Park via the entrance / exit she used the last time she left that car park, as they wished to visit Boots the Chemist. Again there were no disabled spaces available, so she promptly left the car park via the opposite entrance / exit.

She explained all this in writing as per the firm's policy, and pointed out that if she had parked her vehicle in that car park, surely there must be photographic evidence of that. There wasn't any evidence of that, just selected ANPR images of her entering and leaving the car park. She asked how could she be charged for parking, if the disabled spaces were full, and she left the car park immediately on establishing same.

She was asked to produce evidence that she had been somewhere else, at the times they assumed she was parked in the car park. At that point I got involved, and told her to ignore any further communications from them.

She did not hear any more from them until last year, when a number of threatening letters arrived for her attention, and several threatening phone calls to her mobile phone (I don't know where they got her number from).

My daughter is a highly skilled Primary School Teacher, has never had any convictions or fines, motoring or otherwise. She is an innocent in these matters, and doesn't deserve this hassle.

They are claiming £100.00 PCN, interest of £39.22, and £54.00 for 'contractual costs pursuant to PCN terms & conditions'. There is a £25.00 Court fee, Legal Representative's costs £50.00. Total £268.22.

Sorry for the length of this diatribe. The event was 5 years 4 months ago.

Many thanks

KeithP

Mareczek wrote: »

Hasn't a statute of limitations expired for this sort of thing (well over 6 years)?

Yes it has.

But if you want further advice then you'll need to start your own thread.

Ralph-y

Hi Mareczek, and welcome to the forum ......

you have posted on an old thread ...:o

we try to keep all requests for help to a ' one thread per request' ....

so could you please re post on a new thread .....

the link can be found here ...

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

along with the newbie thread for advice ...

Ralph:cool:

Coupon-mad

You posted on a thread that's 18 months old. Instead, click back to read the NEWBIES thread (see below).

waamo

Statute of Limitations? Isn’t that an American thing? I guess you mean the Limitations Act. You need to start a thread for your own advice