Court Claim Procedure point 5

Umkomaas

You can, even now, write to the Judge with a schedule of costs and ask for them to be considered for award given the unreasonable behaviour of the PPC.

Well done on your win - great result.

Loadsofchildren123

Really pleased for you, what a relief. Never mind about forgetting the costs, a small price for the pleasure of beating them so soundly!

safarmuk

You can, even now, write to the Judge with a schedule of costs and ask for them to be considered for award given the unreasonable behaviour of the PPC.

If that is the case, its worth a punt for the cost of a stamp. From the write up it doesn't seem like you were given a chance to speak really so you couldn't have asked for costs.

catfunt

Excellent news - good to see the cheating scumbags take a beating.

And that is what they are, I am sure they deliberately sent their WS to the old address. "Administrative mistake", my bottom.

Coupon-mad

H_brogab wrote: »

We got to court and checked in with the usher who seemed puzzled that I had a lay-rep, showed him the relevant papers and there was no problem, he then showed us where to sit and wait. Whilst we were waiting we overheard someone check in as Euro parking, we also heard him say ‘is that allowed’, the usher must have told him about my rep who was by now getting quite excited at having it thrown out. The guy came over to me and said can he have a word, I told him I had nothing to say to him and he left.
When we were called into court he got all his papers out, lots of photos of my car and one of the sign, we left our papers upside down ready to begin.
The judge asked if I had received their witness statement but I was dumbstruck, so my rep shook his head and the judge asked Mr Chihuahua (Gladstones rep) if they had sent them, he said they had and the judge asked for a proof of postage and whilst Mr Chihuahua was fumbling for it asked him to which address it had bee sent (I moved house almost a year ago) It turns out they had sent them to my old address and the judge questioned why this was when they had my new address and everything else had been sent to that address. Mr Chihuahua blamed administrative error, the judge was unconvinced and questioned why something so important had gone astray, Mr Chihuahua stuttered and mumbled, the judge then said that I had managed to do a lot of legal research and put together a comprehensive witness statement and get in in before the 14 day deadline and yet they had submitted theirs 5 days late to the court and the wrong address to me. The judge then said he could give me a copy of theirs so I could go outside for 5 minutes to draft a defence but that would not be fair on me, he could adjourn it so they could submit it properly but that would be unfair on me and the court as they have other cases to hear and its not fair bringing me back again. He then said he could throw it out due to lack of evidence as no case to answer, after a few minutes repeating these options he said he was throwing it out.

In the excitement we got up and left, completely forgetting to request expenses!!! D’oh

I had filled a form out ready but was just glad it was over.
Coupon-mads help with the paperwork was excellent and loadsofchildrens list of action got my lay-rep fired up, millions of thanks to all.

Oh and the Gladstones rep actually was called Mr Chihuahua

I hope the Parking Prankster sees this to blog about it. Hilarious! Mr Chihuahua! :rotfl:

Loadsofchildren123

Lol. Was his bark worse than his bite?

H_brogab

Coupon-mad wrote: »

I hope the Parking Prankster sees this to blog about it. Hilarious! Mr Chihuahua! :rotfl:

Me too.

Their rep really didn't seem well prepared and Im sure he approached me in the waiting room to see if I would settle before going in.

Glacier_2

Was he a small yappy irritating person?

H_brogab

Glacier wrote: »

Was he a small yappy irritating person?

He certainly had his tail between his legs when he left