Parking Eye County Court Claim Form

darchas

Ah, brilliant, thanks KeithP - I'm glad I asked!!

darchas

Hello

Received a form today through the post - titled 'Directions questionnaire (Small Claims Track)'. I did have a search of the forum but didn't find anything on it.

It's been completed by Parking Eye. It looks like something they fill in for the court, the copy I have has been scanned and printed so I'm assuming the court have received it from Parking Eye and have sent me a copy.

I'm guessing this is confirmation that Parking Eye are proceeding with the case. Is that was this is? There's no other note with the form so it doesn't look like I need to do anything with it.

Thanks

darchas

Ignore the question above - I have also received PE's reply to my defense - all 40 pages of it!

nosferatu1001

Go through it
Work out everything that is
1) irrelevant
2) introducing new arguments not present in their PoC
3) wrong
etc....

darchas

nosferatu1001 wrote: »

Go through it
Work out everything that is
1) irrelevant
2) introducing new arguments not present in their PoC
3) wrong
etc....

I need to have a closer read, but it's pretty much a point by point rebuttal of my defence. There's a lot of referring to other cases in law.

One interesting bit that caught my eye is that they 'assert' that my defence is one that has been distributed in 'online forums' to people attempting to avoid paying parking charges. They also say they have received a large number of near-identical defences. Which makes me wonder how well these have done in the court. Either way it all seems like an irrelevant point to me, either the defence is valid or it's not. Given I have no legal knowledge whatsoever it's surely to be expected that I'd do some research to prepare my defence!

nosferatu1001

Yes, of course it appears to rebut it. this is their template style response. But does it ACTUALLY rebut it? the entire POINT of the pack is to put you off, and to make it appear like it has rebutted your defence - and to discourage you from you from reading closer.

darchas

Ok thanks. So, I take it that my purpose of reading it to identify what's wrong, irrelevant etc is to prepare myself for court? ie there's no other steps now (apart from Witness statement).

nosferatu1001

Yes there are other steps!
Skeleton Argument, which dissects their claim, and shows how your defence is solid.
So yes, you read it, work out whats wrong - for example on any map is it signed? dated? definitely the same site? Do the signs it purports to claim exist actualy exist? Is it even a MAP or merely a PLAN (on a plan, its not the actual map of signs, just where they planned to put signs...) and so on .

darchas

I'll get to work then! Thanks for your help

darchas

Hi there everyone

I have now received my 'Notice of Allocation to the Small Claims Track (Hearing)' letter, and have a court date set for May.

I have seen reference to a Skeleton Argument and Witness statement in the Newbie's guides, but I'm not sure when I should send these or where to. They aren't mentioned in the letter, or at least by name. There is a line that says that 'each party shall deliver to the other party and to the court office copies of all documents on which he intends to rely'. Does this refer to the skeleton arguments and witness statement?

Thanks in advance!