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  • Redx
    Redx Posts: 38,084 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2021 at 7:22PM
    if you lose in court , pay up , promptly , typically £200 or less , not £250

    meanwhile , give it a shot, you only have £200 to lose, OR NOT

    Kennedy said the USA would try for a man on the moon in that decade, not because it was easy , but because it was hard. so it took a lot of work and they made it work !
  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    If it's in court, take cash, pay their rep and get a receipt. If not, get ELECTRONIC payment details from their rep before  the call ends. 
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 155,423 Forumite
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    Your WS could be shorter than the example but you do need to understand and voice why a PPC can't add £60 on top of a parking charge, for 'costs' that are already in the parking charge.  So why not just copy the example and put in your own facts.

    Don't be put off by the word 'exhibits'; it just means evidence photos and maybe a scan of your proof of your job and what you do/where you were working, if you can prove it after all this time.  

    Even if you can't prove it, don't underestimate your power as the ONLY true witness in that telephone hearing.  No-one else will know anything about the site or what you were doing and the Judge will want to hear from you as long as he/she is prepared to let you off not submitting this WS & evidence in accordance with the Summer Order...which you breached.  Don't mention it, don't apologise for not doing the WS earlier, just crack on and copy and adapt the example.  It's a lot easier than you think.
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  • MrEnigma
    MrEnigma Posts: 113 Forumite
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    The only comment is 
    get your WS done. 

    Paying the scammers is supporting parasites. You might be able to afford to pay, not everyone can. 
    Point taken, I will ghet the WS done this weekend.
  • MrEnigma
    MrEnigma Posts: 113 Forumite
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    If it's in court, take cash, pay their rep and get a receipt. If not, get ELECTRONIC payment details from their rep before  the call ends. 
    Cash. Ok, but probably get the payment details.
  • MrEnigma
    MrEnigma Posts: 113 Forumite
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    If you take cash to a F2F hearing, they have to accept it there and then, and must give a receipt. You can then walk over to the court clerk and have them file the receipt there and then, catching it before the CCJ is ever even entered. You then have zero risk of the claimant failing to inform the court you paid, and the CCJ staying recorded. 
    OK Makes sense.
  • MrEnigma
    MrEnigma Posts: 113 Forumite
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    edited 8 January 2021 at 7:52PM
    OK you very kind people, I have drafted a WS, its my first attempt, and all quite new to me.
    Just asking for advice on amendments, which I know it will need, I do have more to add, but just want to make sure im going down the right avenue with this.
    Thank you very much
  • Coupon-mad
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    You've left your full name showing on that link, in the heading of the WS.
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