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Letter from Gladstone Solicitors before Court hearing

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  • Loadsofchildren123
    Loadsofchildren123 Posts: 2,504 Forumite
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    just noticed the repetition in para 3 - replace penultimate sentence with something like "In contrast, your client has put very little effort into particularising and pursuing its claim, even ignoring the court's directions about service of evidence". And then leave the last sentence in (" Any proposals must include.........").
    Although a practising Solicitor, my posts here are NOT legal advice, but are personal opinion based on limited facts provided anonymously by forum users. I accept no liability for the accuracy of any such posts and users are advised that, if they wish to obtain formal legal advice specific to their case, they must seek instruct and pay a solicitor.
  • System
    System Posts: 178,433 Community Admin
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    @LoC you might want to add that as a sticky somewhere.

    AIUI there may have been a few baseless claims issued by parking companies but someone might confirm my suspicions.
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  • jonnykhan
    jonnykhan Posts: 4 Newbie
    @LOC - wow thank you for the draft. This should definitely be a sticky somewhere.

    Really appreciate it.
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,802 Forumite
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    IamEmanresu wrote: »
    @LoC you might want to add that as a sticky somewhere.

    AIUI there may have been a few baseless claims issued by parking companies but someone might confirm my suspicions.

    I think you might be right, on occasion! :)

    I will add a link to LOC123's letter to post #2 of the NEWBIES thread and give it a prune at the weekend. Some stuff there is a little old now.
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  • System
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    I've now got a county court date for 29th August which i will be sending my defence for, however i today received a letter from Gladstone which says:

    How did it go?
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  • tfc12345
    tfc12345 Posts: 33 Forumite
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    Have received several letters regarding alleged parking fines, for a resedential development

    The amount they are demanding is over £100 pounds in total.


    I have discussed this with the Estate Managers for the development they have said they are willing to look into specifics but due to their contract with the they are unable to 'cancel' the alleged fines.

    THe above letter appears useful.. but realistically after drafting a defence would be looking to avoid the hassle of attending court.
  • tfc12345
    tfc12345 Posts: 33 Forumite
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    Have considered offering 30-40% as a settlement but whilst making no admission/confirmation of the driver - liablility or the validity of any alleged contract between estate and keeper.

    This is merely to have them leave us in peace as we have recently lost a family member and this predatory conduct is particularly unpleasant at this juncture
  • Woppyman72
    Woppyman72 Posts: 63 Forumite
    Sorry to hear you have recently lost a family member.

    You should start your own thread and read the ‘Newbies’ section on the forum landing page. That will help the forum members help you once you have a grasp of the process you need to follow to defend this robustly
  • tfc12345
    tfc12345 Posts: 33 Forumite
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    Dear All,

    WHat was the result here please?


    Kind Regards
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 161,802 Forumite
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    Why would you want to bump a 2017 thread, when we have current ones the same?
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