Hearing date fast approaching and have had nothing from gladstones

Tx2mush

Hi I have submitted all my witness statement, exhibits and defence within the right timescales as instructed by the court but I have not had anything back from gladstones and the court date is fast approaching.

Reading the court papers it says that anything submitted after cut off date will not be able to be used in court, is this correct and if so what will they be able to use against me in court other than the initial claim form which is very vague and brief.

Should I be writhing to them at this stage asking for expenses or just attend the hearing?

Le_Kirk

Why have you started a new thread? If this is related to your other thread, that is the place to post otherwise we are having to jink back and forwards between threads. Copy and paste your post into your other thread and delete the post above this one and I will delete my reply. If this is not related to your other thread - apologies.

bargepole

Tx2mush wrote: »

Should I be writhing to them at this stage asking for expenses or just attend the hearing?

You certainly don't want to alert them to their inefficiency, let them dig their own grave.

You should attend the hearing, and if their WS is not served at all, or is very late, make a preliminary submission to the Judge that as they have failed to comply with Court directions, and have not applied for relief from sanctions, their WS (if any) should be struck out, and the claim dismissed, upon application of the Denton principles (Google it).

Then ask for your witness costs for attending the hearing, plus further costs for unreasonable behaviour by the Claimant, pursuant to CPR 27.14(2)(g).

The_Deep

And complain to your MP.

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.

Redx

pm soolin or crabman and ask them to merge this thread into your existing thread, if its all the same case