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  • unknown_user
    unknown_user Posts: 46 Forumite
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    This is my original post and I'm updating it as after 2 years I've just received a letter from VCS Litigation Dept titled letter before claim..Do I respond to this as they are attempting to recover outstanding debt.
  • Umkomaas
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    unknown_user said:
    This is my original post and I'm updating it as after 2 years I've just received a letter from VCS Litigation Dept titled letter before claim..Do I respond to this as they are attempting to recover outstanding debt.
    Follow the advice in the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, second post, which tells you how to deal with a LBC .... and all court-related action you will need to take as this starts to unfurl. 
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 152,040 Forumite
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    Everything is in the NEWBIES thread.  Do your SAR as it tells you to do and be ready for the claim form.
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
     Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • beamerguy
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    unknown_user said:
    This is my original post and I'm updating it as after 2 years I've just received a letter from VCS Litigation Dept titled letter before claim..Do I respond to this as they are attempting to recover outstanding debt.
    Call it a D-LBC .......   D = DESPERATION FOR MONEY ?

    Have VCS added a fake £60 ???



  • unknown_user
    unknown_user Posts: 46 Forumite
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    Do I request SAR to the landowner, or the parking firm i.e. VCS? 
    I can see they have photos of a vehicle parked on private land without a valid pay & display ticket.
  • KeithP
    KeithP Posts: 41,296 Forumite
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    unknown_user said:
    Do I request SAR to the landowner, or the parking firm i.e. VCS? 
    I can see they have photos of a vehicle parked on private land without a valid pay & display ticket.
    As Coupon-mad said:
    Coupon-mad said:
    Everything is in the NEWBIES thread.  Do your SAR as it tells you to do and be ready for the claim form.
    The NEWBIES thread says:
    This is a chance to see the PPC's hand - so send them (NOT their solicitor!) a Subject Access Request 'SAR' listing what you want to see by way of data the PPC holds about you

    What's difficult about that?

  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    VCS.  What personal data of yours would the landowner have?
  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    Have VCS added a fake £60 ???
  • Grimghast
    Grimghast Posts: 86 Forumite
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    beamerguy said:
    Have VCS added a fake £60 ???
    I wouldnt be suprised if they have they did on mine!
  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 27 May 2020 at 10:24PM
    Of course they did; they always do.  It was a kind of rhetorical question because the threads cover this already.  Please read the NEWBIES thread and lots of other VCS threads so that you learn about what will happen and what to do when.  Adding £60 is a dodgy, unrecoverable feature of PPC claims.
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
     Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
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