Currently at Section 3/4 of Court Claim Procedure.

BuxtonB

Long story short, currently at section 3/4 of the court claim procedure;

4. After sending off your Defence, the Northampton Business centre will send a copy to the Claimant, and then send a Directions Questionnaire (form N180) to both Claimant and Defendant. You must complete this by the date given, and send it back to Northampton, with a copy to the other side (or their solicitors if they've nominated one as the address for service).

I've received a very poorly photocopied version of the form N180 already filled out (from I presume Parking Eye) that's barely legible, there's no return address on the handwritten envelope.

I've not received anything from the Northampton Business Centre as mentioned in Section 4 above.

So what should my next course of action be?

Thank you in advance, from a longtime lurker.

The_Deep

Phone the court. Ignore the poorly photocopied form from PE.

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 most of these companies may well be put out of business by Christmas.

bargepole

BuxtonB wrote: »

I've received a very poorly photocopied version of the form N180 already filled out (from I presume Parking Eye) that's barely legible, there's no return address on the handwritten envelope.

I've not received anything from the Northampton Business Centre as mentioned in Section 4 above.

So what should my next course of action be?

What you have received is a copy of the Claimant's completed N180.

You should shortly receive a Defendant's version, which you should complete and return to the Court, and send a copy to Parking Eye, by the date stated.