SCS Law Letter before claim for multiple PCNs-over £1000!!

DiegoFuego

Coupon-mad wrote: »

And you should point out that if the PPC are to hold you liable as keeper, they need to have complied with the POFA Schedule 4 because the driver has not been identified.

I will add that to my draft. I am assuming that I just have to point this fact out and not necessarily discuss any ways that they have fallen short of POFA?

DiegoFuego

Hi all. Just to update, I have posted the letter and will continue to update on any developments.

DiegoFuego

Hi all. As I said, I will update with any news.

To date I have had no reply to my most recent letter. What would be the best next steps? Do I write to the court? Or write back to them?

Any and all advice is welcome.

Many thanks.

DiegoFuego

Hi is there anyone that can give me a little help please?

Thank you.

catfunt

DiegoFuego wrote: »

Hi all. As I said, I will update with any news.

To date I have had no reply to my most recent letter. What would be the best next steps? Do I write to the court? Or write back to them?

Any and all advice is welcome.

Many thanks.

Have you received a court claim yet? If not, then the court is not involved at this stage.

In which case, it's sit and wait (unless any of those more expert than I have a different opinion) - the ball is in their court (pun unintended).

Coupon-mad

DiegoFuego wrote: »

Hi is there anyone that can give me a little help please?

Thank you.

Yes, tell us what you are wondering about?

Do not reply if you get a private message from a poster with less than 1000 posts offering you 'help' - just delete it. Could be anyone. We help on the forum. If you have had no letter then you need do nothing yet. I expect your case is on the bottom of a pile and a reply will surface at some point this Autumn.

Keep the thread updated but don't obsess about it, get on with your life.

DiegoFuego

Hi.

It's because I have the 14 day deadline in my letter. So I assumed the ball is back in my court. I wrote that I may write to the court if I don't get a reply as it suggested in the sticky thread. So I'm wondering if I should write to them or what if anything I should do next.

Redx

this isnt at court stage yet, so no court to write to

if you have replied to the solicitors, then you sit and wait, there is nothing else you can do , not unless you can get the landholder to cancel the invoice

DiegoFuego

Hi all

After quite a long time, I have had a response from SCS law. It is basically a fob off and doesn't really answer any points I made.

This is the letter: hxxp://i1378.photobucket.com/albums/ah94/DiegoFuego/Mobile%20Uploads/E440EB50-AB39-42EF-95D0-CBE8765796A8_zpsplygl9tk.jpg

What would be my response to this?

And what do I say about the prolonged period that it took for them to reply?? That doesn't seem right considering how I have to meet deadlines in this whole process.

Many thanks for your help

Coupon-mad

Right - I think you need to really go for COMPLAINTS this week, to the SRA and to the retails/managing agents for the site landowner.

What happened when you complained to each and every retailer Head Office? If you didn't, do this now and also on the retail park's own webpage/facebook page if they have one, and by Twitter if you use it. Google the place to find out who runs it.

It is not too late to get these unfair charges cancelled by the retailers but you will have to be quick. Going in and speaking to the staff is often hopeless but assertive but measured 'customer ranting' on Social Media and at Head Office CS staff of National Retailers often gets such charges cancelled.

Particularly if you can find which managing agent runs the site itself and complain to them about UKPC, who after all have 'form' in 2015 for ticketing fraud which was investigated by the authorities, in terms of faking and doctoring photos about alleged 'overstays'. This is not a firm they should be allowing within spitting distance of shoppers' cars:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11858473/Parking-firm-UKPC-admits-faking-tickets-to-fine-drivers.html

You could also submit a complaint about SCS Law to the SRA, online. Easy to google & find the SRA complaints page.

Do not rant about the time taken to reply. That's something and nothing and was only a few weeks.

I'd rant to the SRA about SCS Law misleading you, an unrepresented defendant in the FIRST letter earlier on, when they lied 'ParkingEye v Beavis confirms that any amount will be recoverable provided it is proportionate to a legitimate interest.' That is not true AT ALL. The Beavis case found merely that a sum of £85 in THAT case alone, with particular signs and adequate notice of the charge, was not a penalty. But the Supreme Court Judges stated clearly that parking charges not saved by 'agreement on the charge' (clear signs stating the charge in large lettering with no ambiguity or small print) was likely to be a penalty. They certainly did not say that 'any amount will be recoverable'!

And complain to the SRA about them adding unrecoverable sums to the original £100 (which were not on the signs and indeed the POFA prevents any sum being recovered from a keeper except the £100 on the NTK, no more random sums can be bolted on later, except for court fees/interest). And report SCS to the SRA for stating wrongly, that ADR does not have to be offered for 12 months which in fact, it does nowadays (someone else might know the law that creates that 12 month requirement!).