SCS Law - UK Parking Control Ltd

parkypark1

I will action the second point.

But how should I respond to their latest email as I'm encroaching the 28 day deadline and I won't have the DVLA response by then?

Coupon-mad

Reply to the LBC saying that residents had Council permission to park there and you are obtaining proof of this from the Local Authority, and as such the case must be placed on hold whilst this vital matter is clarified, which ends any cause of action their client thought they might have to extort money from you.

Suggest the case is put on hold for at least 6 weeks, given the fact Councils can be slow to reply and this involves checking archive files.

System

I'd add to CM's letter that "it would be unreasonable for them not to delay and ask they get their client's instructions on the matter"

Later on a SAR should throw up a copy of BW requesting "further instructions" and if there is no such letter, the issue of "unreasonableness" will come into play.

Coupon-mad

That's a clever step, IamEmanresu. Well worth following.

parkypark1

Thank you both. I was thinking on something like this for a response:

As a resident of the building overlooking the car park I had permission to park there. I am currently liaising with the council to obtain proof, and so I wish for this case to be put on hold for me to obtain this.

I would see 6 weeks as enough time, given the manual checking of archived files this requires. I feel it would be unreasonable for you not to delay and would like you to get your client's instructions on the matter

I also dispute driving the vehicle at the time of the incidents and therefore feel the additional charge of £60 per ticket is unreasonable.

Coupon-mad

Nope - too soft, and you've missed Iamemanresu's point!

parkypark1

I thought the point was to say it's unreasonable to not wait?

System

I thought the point was to say it's unreasonable to not wait?

Yes that is the point you have to make. My suggestion was perhaps trying to be too clever when simple will do. Go with what you are happy with.

parkypark1

Hi - some troubling news based on the above conversation.

I received the requests made to the DVLA and they were all made separately, so it looks like this was legit.

I have also received confirmation that there wasn't an agreement in place, so this argument is also void.

I have around four weeks to reply back with my response but I'm genuinely at a loss as to what else I can go back with.

The frustrating thing is I lived right over the car park and was told numerous times that I could ignore the fines - so wrong I now know.

My wife was chased a few years back and paid circa £1,300 to avoid getting a CCJ. It just feels so wrong that a company and operation like this exists to extract huge amounts of money from the public.

Is there anything else I can do? I'd be happy to pay for legal advice out of principal at this stage!

Coupon-mad

I received the requests made to the DVLA and they were all made separately, so it looks like this was legit.

But that was to be expected, I have almost never seen that as an issue. So what?

My wife was chased a few years back and paid circa £1,300 to avoid getting a CCJ.

She did WHAAAAT??? She didn't have to do that ''to avoid a CCJ'' OMG. Mugged.

What you do, and what your wife SHOULD have done, was defend the case. No CCJ is at risk, nothing bad. And even if she lost she wouldn't have had to pay over a grand for a few PCNs, they made the figures up from thin air, you know!

Same in your case.

Are you really going to do this wrong twice, as a couple? I hope not. Learn from her huge mistake and this time, defend it. No risk, nothing, and even if you lose you pay LESS than demanded (like she would have done, had she lost, and no CCJ would have remained).

Dare I ask which scammer she actually paid? I will scream if it's one which only sends debt letters and would never have sued her.