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cpr1986

Hi

I'm dealing with a parking fine on behalf of my brother in law. It relates to a parking ticket back in December 2015, unfortunately he ignored all the letters and are now at a stage where the car park company has 'sold' the debt on to an outfit called MIL Collections Ltd, and they have proceeded with a Small Claim for £150 (plus £25 Court fee).

The only documents I have in my possession are a letter from MIL advising they are now dealing with the debt, and the Claim form.

I have completed the Acknowledgement online, and now need to prepare the defence which is due to be filed by the 1st September. I'd appreciate some feedback on the defence before I upload it! I'm not sure where to start, but I'll have a look through some of the other defences posted on here to get an idea first.

As far as circumstances go, the driver tells me that he did try to purchase a ticket but the machine was broken. He subsequently received an invoice letter in the post, no doubt followed by other correspondence demanding payment all of which he ignored!

I managed to successfully appeal two tickets via POPLA a couple of years ago, with help from this excellent forum. I understand that it will be more difficult with this one now we are at the Small Claim stage, but hopefully it will be worth a try!

The_Deep

There r is lots of interesting stuff about these chancers here.


http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/independent-parking-committee-ltd.html.

DoaM

There are lots of threads here about MIL ... search this forum for MIL court or MIL claim for recent threads; the advice to you will be the same.

There are also several MIL threads over on Pepippo.

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

The_Deep

Read some of these


https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=mil+collections+parking+prankster&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLS_en-GBGB547GB548&q=mil+collections+parking+prankster&gs_l=hp....0.0.0.16999...........0.

Redx

especially read the ones containing HO87 , or Hotel Oscar 87 , posts , both on here and on pepipoo

use the search word "champertous" etc and read parking pranksters blogs where that is used

this alleged debt was bought by MIL and so is no longer about parking , or parking invoices , its about assignment of debt and that MIL have no legal standing etc

Umkomaas

I'm dealing with a parking fine on behalf of my brother in law.

If you're meaning doing the research and drafting things for him to sign, that's OK, but you can't do it for him. Should this get to court he will have to attend, although you could accompany him as a lay representative. But you do need to read up on any restrictions that will apply.

You most certainly can't rock up in court on his behalf, without him.

Hundreds of MIL threads over on PePiPoo where highly regarded contributor Hotel Oscar 87 (he's HO87 here on MSE) has been playing a major role in seeing off MIL. Have a read of threads over there as well as here.

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

cpr1986

Many thanks for the advice and links, I'm feeling a bit more encouraged after reading some of those!