Demand before Court Action - Pollock Fairbridge and Schiavone

Halley_11

Hi
my partner just received a letter from the same solicitors - he’s Glasgow taxi driver picked up passengers at Edin airport in drop off (which he has always done). He did send an email to VCS (the parking people at Edin airport) but they said he still had to pay. Now 4 months later the letter from the Solictiors has arrived. What do you suggest he does? Thanks 

D_P_Dance

That extra £60 is almost certainly unlawful, read this,

Excel v Wilkinson

At the Bradford County Court, District Judge Claire Jackson (now HHJ Jackson, a Specialist Civil Circuit Judge) decided to hear a 'test case' a few months ago, where £60 had been added to a parking charge despite Judges up and down the country repeatedly disallowing that sum and warning parking firms not to waste court time with such spurious claims.   That case was Excel v Wilkinson: G4QZ465V, heard in July 2020 and leave to appeal was refused and that route was not pursued.  The Judge concluded that such claims are proceedings with 'an improper collateral purpose'.   This Judge - and others who have since copied her words and struck dozens of cases out in late 2020 and into 2021 - went into significant detail and concluded that parking operators (such as this Claimant) are seeking to circumvent CPR 27.14 as well as breaching the Consumer Rights Act 2015.   DJ Hickinbottom has recently struck more cases out in that court area, stating: ''I find that striking out this claim is the only appropriate manner in which the disapproval of the court can be shown''.

and copy the correspondence to the SRA, it is time they put a stop to this deception by these bargain basement law firms.

https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/instructing/your-right-to-complain/

go-on-then

I suggest you start your own thread.

D_P_Dance

Please read the newbies before doing so.

Le_Kirk

I see that @Halley_11 has now started a thread, this one can be allowed to drop off the bottom of the page.

D_P_Dance

What he says

D_P_Dance

He has been banned again, the third time since December.

It is rather a pity in a way because,  apart from his obsession with me, he posts some helpful stuff.   I am sure that he will be back.