Britannia Court Claim Received

kessik

I've not seen this on any other thread (but could have missed it) and I wondered whether it's a 'normal' thing for BWL to do. Two days before we are in court we've received a 'supplementary witness statement' that tries to rebuff everything we put in our witness statement.
Obviously there's no time for us to come back at them even if we were inclined to and it seems a bit desperate to me, asking the Court several times to strike out the case in favour of Britannia, and not addressing the points we were making. But is this allowed?

Redx

late WS are on several court threads on here

object to it and take a copy to show the judge on the day, by mentioning the due date for WS and evidence etc issued by the court (and therefore by the judge)

it should not be allowed , hence your objections to it , because you havent had time to refute it

beamerguy

kessik wrote: »

I've not seen this on any other thread (but could have missed it) and I wondered whether it's a 'normal' thing for BWL to do. Two days before we are in court we've received a 'supplementary witness statement' that tries to rebuff everything we put in our witness statement.
Obviously there's no time for us to come back at them even if we were inclined to and it seems a bit desperate to me, asking the Court several times to strike out the case in favour of Britannia, and not addressing the points we were making. But is this allowed?

Dear oh dear, BWLegal are proving themselves to be thugs and trying to hijack you. I agree, BWLegal right now are desperate ?

BWLegal seem to think judges are stupid but the judges already know of this wild bunch

Continue to court and make sure he judge knows about BWLegal's ABUSE OF PROCESS,

When this is over you must issue a strong complaint to the SRA about the disgusting behaviour of BWLegal
https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/problems.page

kessik

Just waiting to go into court and it's Judge Taylor in Southampton.....

Coupon-mad

Ask as your first point for the 'ambush' (use that word) extra WS to be struck out.

kessik

It went badly....Judge Taylor found in favour of Britannia and we were hit with the £100 for the parking ticket and £100 costs. Obviously I wouldn't do it again but even if we had won I wouldn't recommend going to court, based on the amount of our time the whole thing took up and the associated stress.

beamerguy

kessik wrote: »

It went badly....Judge Taylor found in favour of Britannia and we were hit with the £100 for the parking ticket and £100 costs. Obviously I wouldn't do it again but even if we had won I wouldn't recommend going to court, based on the amount of our time the whole thing took up and the associated stress.

The same Judge Taylor ??

So, a total of £200. The £60 scam charge was not included then ??

Mahershalalhashbaz

kessik wrote: »

It went badly....Judge Taylor found in favour of Britannia and we were hit with the £100 for the parking ticket and £100 costs. Obviously I wouldn't do it again but even if we had won I wouldn't recommend going to court, based on the amount of our time the whole thing took up and the associated stress.

A visit to this car park has resulted in a surprise penalty charge notices for so many of us. Presumably most victims will simply pay the £60 or £100 at the outset, but for those of us who have not, there have been a range of outcomes reported on this forum in recent months:

(1) Successful POPLA appeal on the grounds of poor signage,
(2) Cancellation of the charge arranged through previous managers of the land,
(3) Cancellation by the present managers,
(4) Case struck out for abuse of process on account of BW Legal inflating the costs (both with and without a subsequent appeal for the judgement to be set aside), and now
(5) Losing the case at court.

So much inconsistency when in all cases the claim is simply about a relatively small overstay in a car park with very poor signage.

I would agree that going to court is not the right course for everyone, and sometimes paying £60 at the outset is better than suffering all the aggravation and loss of time, and ultimately having to pay out a much greater sum. The reason to fight is because what Britannia and BW Legal are doing there is wrong, and even a loss can be helpful if the lessons from it can be learned.