UKPC & SCS Law URGENT

SubToPewdiepie

Hello,
I have just received a letter from SCS Law stating I owe UKPC around £300 for 2 parking tickets I received last year. Here's the letter with most fields blanked out:

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(change the Xs to 't's)

I got the tickets on University property outside my halls of residence but I ignored them as I had a couple a few years ago and they stopped sending me the debt collector letters, so I assumed I could just ignore them again. I think that has changed now though? I'm not 100% sure.

I've read through some of the posts including the newbies one and thought I should create my own thread to get some personal help for my case as it seems like these SCS Law ones get followed through.

I'm currently on day 5/14 to reply to the letter and I'm going away on holiday in 3 days so I need to get something sorted soon. If anyone could reply and help me out with what I should do now that would be great. I understand I'll need to write some sort of letter to SCS?

Some more info:
-My car is on Finance I don't know if that changes anything?
-The first ticket was issued on a Sunday which I didn't think was possible? (which is why it was parked there...)
-Interestingly, the car was parked in the same place from the Sunday (1st ticket) to Monday (2nd ticket) but the details of the tickets are different. The first ticket says I was parked in a permit holder space without a permit. But the second ticket says I was parked in an unauthorised area.
-I also had a couple tickets in my first year at uni (about 3 years ago) but these aren't listed on the letter so would these have been deleted/taken off their system? Or could these also come up as evidence against me in court?
-Finally, I tried to figure out if the SCS Law letter was legit or not but the links I found on other threads were dead. Could someone link me to a website where I can check if the letter is legit? (or just look yourself as I have posted a link of the letter)

Okay that's all for now,

Thanks a lot!

pogofish

Urgent help is best got by carefully reading the Newbies Sticky, which will inform you properly and lay-out what you need to be doing at each stage of the process.

SubToPewdiepie

Thanks for the reply, could you please quickly tell me if this really is urgent and I need to sort this out now or can I leave it and sort it out later? I have lots of work to do before I go away this Friday. I don't have time to read the newbies post super thoroughly. I have emailed my uni and I hope they are able to remove the charges, I may go in and speak to someone to see if I can sort it out any quicker.

Quentin

See #4 in the faq which explains the debt collector stage you are now in


Not urgent at all


You ignore everything except Court correspondence or a LBCCA


If/when that turns up go back to the FAQ


#2 there advises on how to defend court claims

The_Deep

UKPC are fraudsters

https://www.bing.com/search?q=ukpc+fraudsters+the+telegraph&form=EDNTHT &mkt=en-gb&httpsmsn=1&refig=48c0a34647b9455bb649864d51955c 57&PC=ACTS&sp=1&ghc=1&qs=AS&pq=ukpc+fraud&sc=3-10&cvid=48c0a34647b9455bb649864d51955c57&cc=GB&set lang=en-GB

http://parking-prankster.blogspot.com/

If this is going to court, someone should bring it to the attention of the judge.

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.

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.

SubToPewdiepie

Hi I think it might be the LBCCA? can u look at the link and check if it is?

SubToPewdiepie

Yeah I read all that already but I don't see how that helps my situation?

fisherjim

SubToPewdiepie wrote: »

Hi I think it might be the LBCCA? can u look at the link and check if it is?

https://imgur.com/a/065SPDu


No it isn't the clue is in who they are instructing you to pay, yes it those scamming scumbags Debt Recovery Plus, and the fact that it says: "please note this letter is not a letter of claim".

SubToPewdiepie

Omg thank you so much FisherJim! This is very good news I thought it was LBC for sure.

Hopefully I won't be back with a real letter of LBC, good luck to all and f*** DRP!

p.s I thumbed up ur reply

Umkomaas

https://imgur.com/a/065SPDu

A real LBCCC would give you 30 days to respond.

A real LBCCC would require you to pay either the parking company or their solicitors, not jumped up debt collectors.

A real LBCCC would not simply be a solicitor's letterhead being pimped out to debt collectors to use as a frightener to cause people to come here marking posts 'URGENT', which presumably is marked as such to jump ahead of anyone else who has not so marked their thread as 'URGENT'?

Whilst this isn't a real LBCCC, it's not to say you won't get one in due course. Please be ready for that by doing some advance reading of the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, post #2 (LBCCC to court hearing section) so you can leave 'URGENT' off any future posts!

SubToPewdiepie

Loooool okay thanks man, it was urgent in my head as I thought it was a real one my bad