Court letter - money request!

JOnathan2018

Hi there,

I’ve been given bad advice to ignore a Parking Eye fine, which I did, and following several scary letters, i have now received a money request from the courts of well over £300. This is a genuine letter from the courts.

Do I have any options at this point, other than to pay the money demanded?

Thanks for your help. Yes I know I’m an idiot and should have read the newbies post BEFORE not responding!!

Jon

Quentin

Is it a claim or a ccj?

If it's a claim then spend time familiarising yourself on this in the Newbies FAQ thread near the top of the forum. #2

If it's a ccj issued in default following you ignoring previous court correspondence then you probably have no alternative but to pay

Umkomaas

I!!!8217;ve been given bad advice to ignore a Parking Eye fine, which I did

Presumably you will be asking those who offered you the bad advice to underwrite their advice by way of a contribution towards your costs?

It really is the only way to stop this rubbish coming out from Bob the Gob, the pub expert and his cohorts. Let us know what they say.

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.