UKCPM now at bailiff letter stage

Stuart1925

Hi Forum,
Firstly I must appologise for wading in as a newbie with a reply to Curly89 yesterday. Have read the Newbie threads now.

2 and a half years ago UK Car Park Management fined me for non display of ticket in the windscreen of my car whilst I was at work. I am currently chasing an elusive pass through the construction company I was working for. However, I finished my work before I received it.

I have gone through the mire of IAS (ignored there), Debt recovery letters, Gladstone Solicitors including a "CCJ" I believe I am still being scammed and have taken heart reading the many posts on the subject which give great advice.

What does concern me however is 1. The CCJ serial number is on a register for CCJ's as "possible match" (whatever that means) and 2. Bailiff letters from dcbl. It looks scary enough (especially to the wife), but for the caveat on the reverse which states "not for high court or bailiff action."

I am fairly sure this is still a game being played but my gut is wondering whether this has just turned genuine .

Has anyone any advise on these 2 issues.

P.S. I did try recently send a recorded letter asking for a full breakdown of the fine costs for VAT to UKCPM but as the Forum predicted they batted me off to Gladstones.

Redx

firstly, I dont believe half of the above, sorry to say

1) there was no "fine", there was a PARKING CHARGE NOTICE or PCN , nothing more, this is commonly known as an INVOICE

so you received an INVOICE


2) in order for there to be a CCJ , it would have had to have gone to court and you would have to have lost in court and failed to pay the Judgment (the J in CCJ)


DCBL may be involved but unless the sum was over £600 and only if it had gone to the high court for a WRIT can they act as bailiffs , otherwise they are acting as debt collectors

so you may have received an LBC, perhaps you received an MCOL too ? (please confirm or deny)

once we know if there is a Judgment in place and if it was set by the court and what amount it was can we advise you

I suggest you correct all errors, start again and tell us the timeline and if there was an LBC, an MCOL, a Judgment , the charge listed on any judgment and if this letter is a debt collector letter or not ?

3) do a check online to see if there is a CCJ in the keepers name by checking with one of the few credit reference agencies


4) and send the DPO for UKCPM a SAR using GDPR , they cannot pass that onto GLADRAGS

Stuart1925

Thanks Redx for your help , I will go back and check all you have said and get back with a more concise , error free posting

The_Deep

, I will go back and check all you have said and get back with a more concise , error free posting

Indeed, in matters such as this, where you are likely to be taken to court, accuracy is a sine qua non.

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.

Stuart1925

Thanks to The Deep, I am wading through my detail at the moment and will add a letter to my MP.