Hopson Solicitors Letter

The_Deep

I was indeed trying to help, I have a soft spot for lawyers, that was my second choice if I did not pass the Foreign Office exams.

If he wants to take his firm down market I can live with it.

Coupon-mad

The_Deep wrote: »

I have now had another email, very hostile, in fact, quite rude. We have clearly touched a nerve.

They think that this is none of my business, and are even threatening me. They do not want me to correspond with them further, they do not want me to publish the exchange of emails.

Let us see how they perform in court, after all, they could hardly do worse than Gladstones and BWL.

Seems they have also complained to MSE, as the Forum Team have been frantically editing our free speech:

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Any firm of Solicitors would do well to check (beforehand) exactly who is using their letter-heading and what mire their name might be dragged into, by associating with conduct described by MPs in Parliament as 'predatory' business practices by unacceptable 'cowboy'* companies, earlier this year.

It's an *industry* well-documented to be operating for the most part, on the edge of legality, which is subject to a new Bill to rein the worst conduct in. Hardly difficult to check first.

Being associated with the parking industry doesn't look good on Hopson Solicitors. Professionally embarrassing, at best.






*quoting directly and factually, from Hansard: featuring MP Steve Double (Newquay, where some of the worst PPC cowboys wreck tourism by pursuing people for the 12 minutes taken to drive in and out and pay at a machine, either side of parking) and MP Kevin Foster (Torbay) (Con) and MP Graham Jones (Hyndburn) (Lab), among other MPs across all parties:

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2017-03-21/debates/382789C8-0168-4C4B-8260-0540AF83C7D3/DVLAAndPrivateCarParkingCompanies

''We got rid of the cowboy clampers in the last Parliament. The suspicion is that the cowboy clampers have now become the cowboy finers and cowboy invoicers. Although they may wish to leave their spur marks on car parks across the country, I hope the Minister will be clear what action will be taken to ensure that they have to ride off into the sunset for good.''

and

''Without any substantial legislation or regulation, those companies have been free—to be fair—to rip off car park users and charge bogus fees. In my view and that of the British public, it is time to act. The reality for far too many motorists up and down the country is that people are duped into false charges and harassed by firms that, as has been mentioned, somehow manage to get hold of personal information...''


So, let's get this right - Hopson Solicitors decided to jump on that bandwagon NOW?!

And they allegedly have now threatened an MSE poster for alerting them to what they've become associated with?!

andytaylor

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Seems they have also complained to MSE, as the Forum Team have been frantically editing our free speech

Let's just unfavourably compare these firms to the complaints department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. :A

beamerguy

Coupon-mad wrote: »

So, let's get this right - Hopson Solicitors decided to jump on that bandwagon NOW?!

And they allegedly have now threatened an MSE poster for alerting them to what they've become associated with?!

It's unreal C-m

Over the last few years, the PPC's and their legals have come
out with utter rubbish. So much so, it has all been logged
in great detail especially factually correct cases from the
Parking Prankster

Any new solicitor attempting to override what has happened
already would need to be very smart .
My own solicitor who is very smart would not touch this
highly corrupt industry

Over to the new yes .. new solicitors who think that £100
is a big deal

andytaylor

beamerguy wrote: »

Over to the new yes .. new solicitors who think that £100
is a big deal

£100 isn't but multiply that by a few thousand and it is...

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Except it's probably £50 per £100 ticket recovered, less paralegal time, overhead, ancillary charges etc. The margins are very tight.

That's why letters rarely depart from template and everything very generic. Time = cost

esmerobbo

If these companies wish to bottom feed so be it, I think it shows them in a poor light if they need to take on or associate themselves with this sort of work. There is plenty of legitimate debt collection work about if they wish to go that way.

However if they are going to do it then do it in the correct manner and not quote case law that has absolutely no relevance to almost every case they take on.

I don't know about them being concerned about their reputation but that letter the OP received looks like it was written by the tea lady!

The_Deep

I hope that Mr Hopson is reading all of this. He appears to despise anyone who contributes to internet fora, even one as worthy as this. Is it any wonder that solicitors are held in very low esteem by the public.


Perhaps he would like to tell us on here why he is prepared to risk his firm's reputation by taking on these companies which, AFAIAA, are likely to be heavily regulated by Parliament in the near future.

safarmuk

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Haha, in the case of my last post, I put this as a joke like you put %!$£ for a swear word, I was poking fun at the admins, there was never any words there. However yes, they did previously remove part of an original post and subsequent quotes of that original post I believe further up the thread.

The_Deep

They removed a part of my post at 16. I chose my words very carefully, having been involved in the drafting of International Agreements in the past. I am sure that nothing I wrote in any way merited censorship.