Claim Form from CEL

Coupon-mad

Yes you wait now for your DQ. And you complete that in a couple of weeks, as per bargepole's post linked in the NEWBIES thread under the heading 'Small Claim?'

We've never seen a CEL one which was defended on here, get very far out of the starting blocks so I suggest that rushing out to buy a new tie for court won't be necessary! They do tend not to pay hearing fees in well defended forum cases, this year so far.

Scholars86

Just wanted to thank everyone on the forum & especially everyone that offered advice on this thread as the court confirmed that my case has been stayed.
Big relief as we're in the process of moving house and a possible CCJ was not needed!

Umkomaas

Nowadays CEL seem always to discontinue their court case when a robust defence is submitted.

Well done.

Coupon-mad

Scholars86 wrote: »

Just wanted to thank everyone on the forum & especially everyone that offered advice on this thread as the court confirmed that my case has been stayed.
Big relief as we're in the process of moving house and a possible CCJ was not needed!

Hooray! CEL not paid the fee/completed the questionnaire then!

As you have moved house, get PO re-delivery set up for at least six months but I would not prod the hornet's nest by telling them the new address just yet (after redelivery is ended, you may have to though, in case CEL resurrect it by suddenly paying the fee to reinstate it.

There is a timeline that they *could* do that. You can ask the court what that timeline is and tell the court your new address in writing, so no court orders arising from it go to your old address.

That landlord needs to kick them out. This is affecting custom and he is liable to be sued by people like you for DPA breach by CEL.

Archiedog

Hi, I'm in a similar position but not quite. I think the defence info and help posted so far have been great. Let me try and explain my position.

We rent our house and our landlord has mail redirection on, due to this sometime we don't always get our mail. Last year in July, we received a letter before action for an outstanding ticket in February from a local Budgen supermarket car park owned by CEL. We followed this forums advice and sent CEL a letter challenging the 'letter before action' as the Letter Before Action didn't comply with the requirements of the Practice Direction on Pre-action Conduct. We have heard nothing since until the day before yesterday when we got a letter from CEL advising of the CCBC action. Today we received, the CCBC claim forms etc.

We have still not seen any evidence to that we even were responsible (so far back we don't remember). The car park is also no longer owned by Budgen or CEL as it's now a Co-Op so we don't know if there were ever any signs to say so etc.

What would anyone suggest our next course of action should be?

Regards

The_Deep

Does the pub have a Facebook/Trip Advisor page? If so you could write bad stuff on them.

Coupon-mad

Archiedog wrote: »

Hi, I'm in a similar position but not quite. I think the defence info and help posted so far have been great. Let me try and explain my position.

We rent our house and our landlord has mail redirection on, due to this sometime we don't always get our mail. Last year in July, we received a letter before action for an outstanding ticket in February from a local Budgen supermarket car park owned by CEL. We followed this forums advice and sent CEL a letter challenging the 'letter before action' as the Letter Before Action didn't comply with the requirements of the Practice Direction on Pre-action Conduct. We have heard nothing since until the day before yesterday when we got a letter from CEL advising of the CCBC action. Today we received, the CCBC claim forms etc.

We have still not seen any evidence to that we even were responsible (so far back we don't remember). The car park is also no longer owned by Budgen or CEL as it's now a Co-Op so we don't know if there were ever any signs to say so etc.

What would anyone suggest our next course of action should be?

Regards

Same as Scholars86 did. These defences are pretty generic but they work. We have never yet seen a form-defended CEL case proceed.

They are looking for clueless victims who defend weakly, saying who was driving (eek!) and people who pay up on sight of a claim form.

Archiedog

How long do CEL have to respond after a defence is submitted before the case is 'stayed' or 'cancelled'?

Coupon-mad

I know we've heard before that there comes a point where the CCBC will stay the case due to inaction by CEL. Maybe 30 days after defence but could be longer...that's guesswork...courts have delays so I doubt they've noticed yet.

If it were me I would sit tight for 2 or 3 months then contact CCBC to ensure it is stayed.