Letter of Claim received from BW Legal

Rejsp

Hi guys,

Forgive me if I should not have made a thread at this time, but most of the advice I have read seems to suggest that at this stage my own thread would be beneficial.
To update you of the current situation; I have received numerous letters from Premier Park Limited chasing money for a very brief stay in a car park that must have only recently been a monitored car park. I ignored all of these letters as per the advice of some friends of mine; in hindsight I wish I had appealed via some of the templates provided on this website as I believe I'd have had a good chance of it not getting this far. 

The Letter of Claim seems real; citing a 30 day deadline and reply forms included. They've delightfully added on to the requested £160 with solicitors' costs, court fees, and interest, leaving a whopping £239.27 requested amount for what was probably a half hour stay in an empty car park by the sea where we barely left the car (sat on my bonnet in the sun). 

From what I have read -- correct me if I am wrong -- my next step is to submit a SAR to Premier Park Limited, and then send BW Legal confirmation that said SAR has been sent and to request more time. I should expect BW Legal to refuse this. Before I go ahead and do this could anyone confirm this is actually correct? Knowing my luck I have read something wrong and I will just do more damage with sending letters/emails out etc. 

Am I going to be going to court here? 

Thanks for your help.

beamerguy

You have a letter before claim giving you 30 days to respond. BWL should have provided proof of their claim.
What BWLegal CANNOT prove is the fake £60 ......... they cannot prove it to you or the courts and so BWLegal are now being spanked as they are scamming you.

Carefully study the Abuse of process threads
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6014081/abuse-of-process-district-judge-tells-bwlegal/p1?new=1
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6103933/abuse-of-process-thread-part-2/p1?new=1

You must reply to a letter before claim and you can start by denying the claim and you ask them on what legal authority they have to claim an unknown £60.  If they respond, we already know all the excuses they make to which none are applicable and the reply can be shown to a judge
If they fail to respond then you can ask the judge "what is this £60 add-on as BWLegal won't tell me"

This is now down to BWLegal if they ignore you , then maybe court where they risk being spanked yet again for abuse of process and then you can claim your costs

Coupon-mad

Asking this as the Judge will ask - why didn't you pay & display if it was a PDT machine car park? 

Staying with your car never means the car is not parked.  Or was it a permit holders car park? 

Why park there, were the signs that atrocious that you didn't know it was a managed car park?  There has to be a 'P' blue & white entrance sign and more detailed terms inside the car park - and we KNOW there will have been at least some signs by PP because they don't operate with none.  So how will you get round that in court, what is the crux of the defence?

D_P_Dance

, leaving a whopping £239.27 requested amount 

Almost certainly containing unlawful sums, read this

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6014081/abuse-of-process-district-judge-tells-bwlegal

Definitey complain about BW Legal to the SRA citing these cases

https://www.sra.org.uk/