Wrong Reg, Submitted appeal via IAS - Completely lost as to what to do? - Court Letter Received

TechMonkey

Ok so I have just today received an email informing me I have a date for small claims mediation via telephone on the 22nd May
So now is time to really begin to soil myself.
What do I need to know at this stage?
I am given some tips on what to do and prepare, but what the experts here suggest?  Is there anything I should say or avoid saying?

Ralph-y

No ........

that's what you need to say .... do not do mediation its a waste of time and the mediator will try and bully you into accepting paying £££

you need to have a read of

NEW ADVICE
Anticipate a Telephone Hearing and email the local court, save your ink:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6130456/telephone-hearings-re-parking-firm-claims-can-we-all-discuss-strategy-and-outcomes-here#latest

Ralph

TechMonkey

Thanks Le_Kirk - I couldnt find one that matched the wrong license on RingGo or anything that was quite the same with a fully detailed response, but I made do with one that was close and ammended as needed.

Also thank you Ralph-y - I will read and respond to the court

Le_Kirk

TechMonkey said:

Ok so I have just today received an email informing me I have a date for small claims mediation via telephone on the 22nd May
So now is time to really begin to soil myself.
What do I need to know at this stage?
I am given some tips on what to do and prepare, but what the experts here suggest?  Is there anything I should say or avoid saying?

Did you tick Yes or NO to mediation when you completed and submitted your DQ?  However, As Ralph says, do not do mediation.  There is no middle ground, they want £FULL and you want to pay £ZERO end of mediation.

Umkomaas

TechMonkey said:

Ok so I have just today received an email informing me I have a date for small claims mediation via telephone on the 22nd May
So now is time to really begin to soil myself.
What do I need to know at this stage?
I am given some tips on what to do and prepare, but what the experts here suggest?  Is there anything I should say or avoid saying?

That advice has already been given to you by KeithP, almost 3 months ago in his post dated 20 February at 5:32pm. Nothing has really changed. It would have been really beneficial to you to have been reading the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, second post, all about the court process, then you'd have been ready for this stage (and would have avoided any danger of soiling yourself!). 

Le_Kirk

TechMonkey said:

Thanks Le_Kirk - I couldn't find one that matched the wrong license on RingGo or anything that was quite the same with a fully detailed response, but I made do with one that was close and amended as needed.
Also thank you Ralph-y - I will read and respond to the court

I deleted my post referring to this after I realised it was answering your post from February!

Coupon-mad

 I have just today received an email informing me I have a date for small claims mediation via telephone on the 22nd May

Why the heck did you agree to Mediation, given that is pointless (non-legal argument) plain old bullying from a clueless Mediator whose job it is to get a settlement out of the Defendant, nothing like the real hearing?  This is fully explained in so many threads including by bargepole in his posts about court procedures linked in the NEWBIES thread under 'IMPORTANT - KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN' (a red heading calling you to read it, maybe more than once - to take it all in).

We could not have made it clearer NOT to invite Mediation bullying on yourself in any parking case.  

Don't do this, or put the phone down as soon and say 'we'll discuss the case properly at the hearing' as the Mediator starts pressuring you and the other side start talking crap (when they open their mouth).

TechMonkey

I said "no" to the mediation on the form.

 Also thanks Umkomaas for the prompt for re-reading the stickies and newbies and I completely understand that repeating yourselves must get frustrating but for us that this is a first time for, it is all very daunting there is a ton of information to not only read, but to comprehend and understand, all with the thought that I have to go to court at the end of all this.  So I dont mean to be a pain, but it's a lot to take in

Coupon-mad

OK, so play along for 2 minutes to look reasonable, and tell the Mediator you ticked ''no'' to Mediation and will not be offering any settlement today and in fact you expect and propose that the Claimant pays your costs at £19 per hour of time so far, if they want to resolve the dispute.

DO NOT answer anything about 'what your defence actually is' except ''that is in my defence already, the Claimant knows all this'' and then say clearly ''the C is not someone to mediate with, so I'll see them in court as planned - good day to you''.

bargepole

Umkomaas said:

That advice has already been given to you by KeithP, almost 3 months ago in his post dated 20 February at 5:32pm. Nothing has really changed. It would have been really beneficial to you to have been reading the NEWBIES FAQ sticky, second post, all about the court process, then you'd have been ready for this stage (and would have avoided any danger of soiling yourself!). 

The regulars on this forum spend hours and hours burning the midnight oil providing advice as to how to deal with all this stuff, as well as providing 'stickies' containing all the necessary information and examples.

Yet we still get people coming on here who can't be bothered to read any of it, and stumble around in a blind panic, having done everything wrong, and are then in danger of soiling their underwear.

As Judge Rinder often says, 'I get people in here who are stupid, very stupid, and incredibly stupid. Which one are you?'.

The parking companies will be laughing up their sleeves at some of these antics.