Parking Eye LBCCC

EZL

I lost my POPLA appeal against Parking Eye regarding my car being at Keele services in February.
I'm in Scotland. I haven't disclosed who the driver was.
I've now been sent a 'letter before county court claim' with a long reply form. Should I ignore this, or tick box D that I dispute the debt?
Thanks

Coupon-mad

Strange - did they omit the word 'Scotland' in your address? Is it a County court claim (England & Wales only)? What a mess.

You need to email them on:

enforcement@parkingeye.co.uk

and tell them that you are the registered keeper and you stay in Scotland, so this is a formal warning that, if they try submitting an MCOL claim by missing out the word 'Scotland' from your address, you WILL apply to contest jurisdiction in order to get the claim struck out at source and you will pursue ParkingEye for that three figure court fee for the application and any other wasted costs including, but not limited to, your time at £19 per hour or higher (half the hourly rate of a band D 'trainee solicitor/paralegal' fee earner seems appropriate) because they know a MCOL claim in the English Court system is not suitable for a Defendant who lives in Scotland.

steve1500

But the GDPR are very much applicable in Scotland

EZL

Thankyou.

Yes, 'Scotland' does not appear on my address as they have printed it.
I will do as you suggest.
Thankyou very much

System

AFAIK, MCOL uses the postcode and not the country. So any claim will fail the CPR rules.

Won't stop them from hassling the OP short of a claim so wouldn't bother about the letter. Shows the OP to be easily rattled.

Test will be an Equita letter next.

EZL

Not had a bailiff letter yet.
How would you suggest responding to that?
Thanks
Not sure how GDPR is relevant??

The_Deep

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

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, and others have already been named and shamed in the House of Commons as have Gladstones Solicitors, and BW Legal, (these two law firms take hundreds of these cases to court each week, hospital car parks and residential complex tickets have been especially mentioned. They lose most of them, and have been reported to the regulatory authority by an M.P. for unprofessional conduct

The problem has become so widespread that MPs have agreed to enact a Bill to regulate these scammers. It has even been suggested that some of these companies have links with organised ccrime.

Watch the video of the Second Reading and committee stage in the House of Commons recently. MPs have a very low opinion of this industry.

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

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-07-19/debates/2b90805c-bff8-4707-8bdc-b0bfae5a7ad5/Parking(CodeOfPractice)Bill(FirstSitting)

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

Coupon-mad

EZL wrote: »

Not had a bailiff letter yet.

No-one said you will! You won't.

That's not what an Equita letter is...why not just search this forum for that word? Nothing to worry about.