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UKPC- No contract- Default Judgement

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  • Does anyone have any advise as to how to stop UKPC from taking her to court again and again for the same reason?
    Except they appear not to be. They appear to be pursuing multiple alleged infringements on separate dates.

    If the case is chucked out for being wholly without merit in due course, it's conceivable that you could look for a civil restraint order on the basis that claims if similar nature are unlikely to succeed and/or may be vexatious.
  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 43,634 Forumite
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    Does anyone have any advise as to how to stop UKPC from taking her to court again and again for the same reason?
    If it’s the one case, your daughter must defend it. Win or lose then - it’s over, done and dusted.

    They can’t keep resurrecting the same case.
    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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  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    hasitbeen wrote: »
    I think she wants to fight it. She doesn't mind paying the £255. Even if she loses as long as she pays the required amount she won't have a CCj against her name
    No. See #18


    If she loses her set aside hearing and the ccj remains then even after she pays it off the ccj remains on the register against her for the full 6 years
  • An update. We submitted the relevant form and payment on Tuesday to the courts to set aside the judgement. The have received it. Will chase it up on Wednesday
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Why a years delay??

    One requirement for winning a set aside is you must apply promptly!!
  • The_Deep
    The_Deep Posts: 16,830 Forumite
    Does anyone have any advise as to how to stop UKPC from taking her to court again and again for the same reason?

    Writing to your MP might help.

    This is an entirely unregulated industry which is scamming the public with inflated claims for minor breaches of alleged contracts for alleged parking offences, aided and abetted by a handful of low-rent solicitors.

    Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

    The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. It has even been suggested that some of these companies have links with organised crime.

    Watch the video of the Second Reading and committee stage in the House of Commons recently. MPs have a very low opinion of this industry.

    http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/2f0384f2-eba5-4fff-ab07-cf24b6a22918?in=12:49:41

    https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-07-19/debates/2b90805c-bff8-4707-8bdc-b0bfae5a7ad5/Parking(CodeOfPractice)Bill(FirstSitting)

    and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by in the not too distant future..
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • waamo
    waamo Posts: 10,298 Forumite
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    Quentin wrote: »
    Why a years delay??

    One requirement for winning a set aside is you must apply promptly!!

    Has a post been deleted? The last post by the op was December saying a set aside has been applied for.
  • Quentin
    Quentin Posts: 40,405 Forumite
    Yes. OP looks to have deleted a post from earlier today
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