DCBL letter

Coupon-mad

crv1963 wrote: »

Co-incidently my wife also got the same letter. We are just filing it, if we get a further letter or court summons we will write and say it is out of time and please stop sending what seem like letters sent to intimidate.

Please both report them to the SRA.

Just one email needed, reporting the legal firm for this.

crv1963

When I return home I will, so I'll do it Tuesday on my wifes behalf, I will ask her first of course but I'm sure she will agree, or do it herself if I get it all ready!

Jaff_74

I have just emailed Trading Standards also about them. Thing is I am a major sufferer of mental health and i am struggling with this. I want to contact them and let them know that the car was being used for a disabled person at the time also but i refuse to cotact as the ties me in a contract with them does it not?

Paul

DoaM

DO NOT CALL THEM AT ALL! Everything must be in writing .. and the only thing you need to write to them is:

a) Their claim is for an event whose date means the claim is statute-barred. As it is in Scotland then that means that the claim is also extinguished ... the claim no longer exists.

b) They must erase all details they hold on you from all their systems else they're in breach of the GDPR. Failure to do so may result in a civil claim against them for damages.

nosferatu1001

Do exactly as above
OP - youre working on a myth, that for non-concsumer credit act debts that talking to them somehow creates or renews the debt or obligation

waamo

Jaff_74 wrote: »

I have just emailed Trading Standards also about them. Thing is I am a major sufferer of mental health and i am struggling with this. I want to contact them and let them know that the car was being used for a disabled person at the time also but i refuse to cotact as the ties me in a contract with them does it not?

Paul

Contacting them ties you into a contract with them. What do you mean. I don't understand?

Jaff_74

I'm sure i read somewhere if you contact them that this means basically i am the one who needs pay the fine. I maybe completely wrong. When writing to them do i put all my details on the letter. ?

Can i do it by email or by physical letter?

Jaff_74

By letter or email? Do I put all my details in this ?

DoaM

They accept communications by email .. see https://dcbltd.com/gdrp-data-protection-policy/

Stop footering and worrying! All you need to do is use whatever reference they've mentioned on their letter, and then make the 2 points I've raised previously. Contacting them does not mean you accept liability for the charge. It also does not mean that the original alleged debt suddenly becomes viable ... it is like the Monty Python Parrot - dead.

Jaff_74

Hey folks. I have contacted DCBL and low and behold I have had no reply. SRA have recommended to contact FCA? and trading standards have also replied. Their reply is below

Hi,

To acknowledge your enquiry which is receiving my attention.

I understand you have received a letter from DCBL about a parking charge you received 6 years ago, and you believe this debt is now barred. That the charge is going up by another £70. Also that the car was being used for a disabled person so should not have been set at all.

The debt is not enforceable in Scotland unless DCBL obtained a court order against you, if this had happened you would have been informed by the court.
A penalty charge notice received over five years ago, will be time barred unless you acknowledged the letter at the time, in which case it would be five years from when you acknowledged the letter, or received any further correspondence from DCBL. They can not increase the charge, from the amount originally stated.

It is your decision whether you respond to the letter or not, if you don’t you are likely to receive similar follow up letters

keep you posted...