Letter Before Claim

onlyfoolsandparking

lalatoroke wrote: »

Thanks precisely what I have done, will send them a posted 1st class signed for response. Will see what they come back with and take it from there.

Another reason you need to be reading the forum as using that type of postal service is a BIG NO NO!!!!!


Regulars will advise you as I've said but why are you still asking these questions????

lalatoroke

Dear all
I think I am getting confused with the advise here or need to know in lay man language what to do.

This is what I have done, if it is not worth remedying, I will just settle and forget all about getting myself justice.
I have sent a filled ‘PAP’ form to Gladstones waiting for them to come back to me, I have proof of their receipt and if they decide to take it to court I will present same thing believing court can understand lay man explanation and interpret it into law.
If this action isn’t right can some one advise and/or tell me how to move on from here.

KeithP

Where's the confusion?

Having responded to their Letter of Claim, you now sit back and wait for a Claim Form to drop through your letter box.

While waiting you might like to re-read post #2 of [URL="https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4816822NEWBIES FAQ sticky thread[/URL] to get ahead of the game.

nosferatu1001

Your resposne to the PAP is fine
The reason not to use signed for, is if they refuse to sign for it, they can prove the document was never served on them.

Your defence will not be "translated into law" by the courts. You need to ensure your argumetns as to why you are not liable are clear, and ideally you need to spend some time and effort into reading POST TWO of the NEWBIES thread, and reading the EXAMPLE defence there. The language is NOT difficult to understand, and the points made are pretty simple.

lalatoroke

Thank you. I am getting there I have been reading to enhance a better understanding. Many thanks for your help.

The_Deep

I think I am getting confused with the advise here or need to know in lay man language what to do.

You need to persevere, there is no magic bullet, either pay or learn the rules of the game you have joined,

It is the will of Parliament that these scammers be put out of business. Hopefully that will take place in the near future. The Bill has passed through the HOC without hitch, and goes to the Lords soon. In the meantime involve your MP, the poor dears are buckling under the weight of complaints about these scammers. Read this one which I wrote earlier

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. Is has been suggested by an MP that some of these companies may have connections to organised crime.

Parking Eye, CPM, Smart, (especially 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.

Sir Greg Knight's Private Members Bill to curb the excesses, and perhaps close down, some of these companies passed its Third Reading in late November, and, with a fair wind, will become Law next year.

All three readings are available to watch on the internet, (some 6-7 hours), and published in Hansard. MPs have an extremely low opinion of the industry. Many are complaining that they are becoming overwhelmed by complaints from members of the public. Add to their burden, complain in the most robust terms about the scammers.