CEL & QDR Parking Fine

The_Deep

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

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and another company have already been named and shamed, as has Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each year). They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

Hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned.

The problem has become so rampant that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. Watch the video of the Second Reading in the HofC recently.

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

and complain in the most robust terms to your MP. With a fair wind they will be out of business by Christmas.

starnold444

OK I think I have found the reason why!

They have submitted the claim under her maiden name and we responded using her married name

Loadsofchildren123

Just write to the court and explain that then (if you have a copy of your marriage cert to hand then send them a copy)

starnold444

So this has progressed and now received a Notice of Proposed Allocation to the Small Claims Track.
1.This is now a defended claim
2. It appears that this case is suitable for allocation to the small claims track, if I don't agree fill in box C1 etc
3.I must by xx complete the Small Claims Directions Questionnaire and file it with the court.

What option do I follow?

nosferatu1001

What does post 2 of the NEWBIES thread tell you to do?

Quentin

starnold444 wrote: »

What option do I follow?

Agree 2


Comply with 3


Court process and procedure all covered in the newbies faq thread #2

starnold444

Update on this claim, the court has placed an order on the claimant to provide detailed poc within 7 days or they will strike out the claim !!!55357;!!!56397;!!!55356;!!!57339;
This has come from the judge

Coupon-mad

Jolly good, let's hope they don't...!

Loadsofchildren123

nice to see the court doing that for once, it ought to do it to every PPC

[Deleted User]

Indeed.

I'd like to recommend every defendant to apply for proper particulars, because I think such applications would be successful, but with the fees starting at £100, it just ain't gonna happen.

Glad the courts do, on occasion, recognise the issue.