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BW Legal Final notice letter

Hi,

I am looking for some help, i have received a letter from BW Legal on 04/11/16 for a Final notice to pay them £154 for parking in the peel centre (January 2014) apparently with no valid ticket. I received a letter last month on 4th/10/16 which i presumed was just a junk letter as i have not had any prior correspondence from Excel parking of this company.

I have no recollection of this occurring as the alleged was such a long time ago so i don't know the best way to defend this. Can anyone help me write a response to them as i certainly don't want to pay what they are asking for something i have no idea about. I have read previous threads on here and it seems like they are out to just make money out of whoever they can, however i cannot find a template i can use specific to my letters.

Any help wouldd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    danb87 wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am looking for some help, i have received a letter from BW Legal on 04/11/16 for a Final notice to pay them £154 for parking in the peel centre (January 2014) apparently with no valid ticket. I received a letter last month on 4th/10/16 which i presumed was just a junk letter as i have not had any prior correspondence from Excel parking of this company.

    I have no recollection of this occurring as the alleged was such a long time ago so i don't know the best way to defend this. Can anyone help me write a response to them as i certainly don't want to pay what they are asking for something i have no idea about. I have read previous threads on here and it seems like they are out to just make money out of whoever they can, however i cannot find a template i can use specific to my letters.

    Any help wouldd be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    Hi, could you please say what was in this letter from BWLegal

    What have they said ?
  • Hi Beamerguy

    They have said that further to the first letter dated 4th October 16, there client now requires full payment of the balance within 17 days of the letter, failing this they have been instucted to commence county court proceedings against me for the balance.

    They have then detailed court cases to try and frighten me into paying.

    Thanks
  • Redx
    Redx Posts: 38,084 Forumite
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    just read the hundreds of other recent thread using the search words BW LEGAL and follow the same advice using the same "templates"

    its been done to death on here and over on pepipoo over the last few months
  • I know but I just didn't know whether every case is different, hopefully I will get them off my back, thanks
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    edited 7 November 2016 at 4:48PM
    BWL are being investiugated for overcharging, mainly by an amount of £54. The PPC cannot claim their legal fees, which are capped at £50 anyway, until a judge finds for them in a court of law. For BWL to claim them before even going to court therefore is ultra vires, perhaps it is even fraud.

    Formally complain to the SRA that BWL are seeking monies for which they are not entitled.

    http://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems/report-solicitor.page

    with a bit of luck the SRA will put a stop to it.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • Redx
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    danb87 wrote: »
    I know but I just didn't know whether every case is different, hopefully I will get them off my back, thanks

    yes , every "case" is different

    but the BW LEGAL templates are the same as they do not bother to read about the case, they just issue hundreds of templated letters and the facts of the case are rarely taken into account

    their "case" is simple

    you owe our client , so pay up , otherwise we or the client will do blah blah

    as yours is the infamous PEEL CENTRE then there will be dozens or hundreds of similar "cases" already on here and over on pepipoo

    you are not the first, and wont be the last
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    danb87 wrote: »
    Hi Beamerguy

    They have said that further to the first letter dated 4th October 16, there client now requires full payment of the balance within 17 days of the letter, failing this they have been instucted to commence county court proceedings against me for the balance.

    They have then detailed court cases to try and frighten me into paying.

    Thanks

    And they try to make it all so believable don't they ?

    It's no wonder that there are 100's of complaints with the SRA right now.

    Yours could be the next one to the SRA, just read up on here about BWLegal and do what the Deep suggests.

    Read up what happened in court with BWLegal recently.

    The judge condemned the BW Legal evidence pack and spoke with absolute disdain for the poor quality of evidence prepared by Sohail Ismail.

    http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=bw+legal

    All this is no doubt due to the fact that BWlegal are taking on cases from Excel who failed to collect and clearly are failing to pass the correct info to BWL.

    BWL fail because it appears they don't have a clue what they are doing.

    They might issue court papers on behalf of Excel but given the roasting they got in court recently, would they be stupid enough
    to risk another one ...... many here will say yes.

    It's true .... a leopard does not change it's spots.

    BWLegal is currently being watched and the Prankster will no doubt
    report the next fiasco
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