Gladstones/PCM County Court

blutack

Thanks The Deep. Very interesting stuff.

Is it worth quoting the new legislation in my defence?

Coupon-mad

No, not in the defence.

Your added words look fine but you can find loads of PCM defences that expound on their well-documented 'predatory' conduct, including when they were outed as a rogue trader on Watchdog, by searching the forum for:

PCM predatory Watchdog defence true

blutack

Thanks for the direction Coupon-mad, I found a post that you wrote on another thread regarding PCM and their predatory practice and have modified it for my own defence. I have attached below, please let me know if you think anything should be modified.
As a side note, I was wondering whether a copy of this defence goes to the Claimant (Gladstones) before the claim hearing?


These photographs were taken within seconds of each other by an unidentified person, very likely a non-uniformed individual, typical of PCM's well-documented predatory modus operandi, as exposed in the national press and on BBC's Watchdog. Predatory practices and immediate ticketing before a driver can read any signs and decide whether they would like to to remain on site, is contrary to the International Parking Community's Code of Practice. The Supreme Court Judges in ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] UKSC 67 held that a CoP is effectively 'regulation' for the private parking industry, full compliance with which is both expected and binding upon any parking.

Coupon-mad

I was wondering whether a copy of this defence goes to the Claimant (Gladstones) before the claim hearing?

Not from you. The CCBC gets a copy to them shortly after you file it.

That looks fine, except you've missed the word 'firm' from the end:

full compliance with which is both expected and binding upon any parking .

blutack

Ok, great. Thanks Coupon-mad, I'll submit that defence then. It's quite long now but I'm hoping that'll be fine.
Thank you very much for your help so far! Very much appreciated.