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Multiple Parking fines - NCP / Trace debt recovery and BW Legal

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  • hayd555
    hayd555 Posts: 47 Forumite
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    D_P_Dance said:
    You should complain the strongest possible terms to the SRA that they are lying.  Such conduct is liable to bring this ancient profession into disrepute.




    ti
    I sent a complain to them already but not had anything back
  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,592 Forumite
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    Send a further one expanding the complaint.
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 157,751 Forumite
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    edited 10 August 2020 at 3:59PM
    Do as I advised. 
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top or bottom of any page where it says:
    Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,592 Forumite
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    edited 18 April 2020 at 8:12AM
    No, don't.  A complaint to the SRA about BW Legal doing what they usually do, is pointless

    I disagree, and am wondering how anyone can be privy to the contents of reply which has not yet been written.

    Yes, solicitors have a duty to their client, but their overriding duty as Officers of the Court is to act in a lawful manner appropriate to their profession, and that does not include demanding sums from motorists which they know are lawful. ,

    CM may have a better knowledge of the law surrounding this particular subject subject than I  but I am willing to wager that, after over 35 years working in one of the Great Departments of State, five years of which were in the Legal Department,  alongside some of the best legal brains in the country,    I have superior negotiation skills and a better understanding of how organisations work.  After all Ambassadors, Ministers of the Crown , Revenue and Customs, and HM Treasury, (to name a few), have been happy to be guided by my advice.


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  • beamerguy
    beamerguy Posts: 17,587 Forumite
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    I think it is clear that the SRA are only an inadequate members club on par with the BPA and IPC. The SRA fail as a regulator ? and they fail the public.     
    There is a clear problem and if the SRA are stupid enough not to see a pattern regardless of they being in the lowest court, if the legal claims they simply take instructions, they should be advising the PPC of the chances of success.  History has shown BWLegal made a mockery of VCS/EXCEL and right now they are making a mockery of Britannia

    If the PPC is adding the £60 based on the cloud 9 dreamers of the BPA and IPC and their CoP, which gives permission to add the fake charge, it is the BPA / IPC who should be called into account as it is a contravention of POFA2012, the Supreme court ruling and the 
    Protection of Freedom Act 2012.   On what Legal Authority do the BPA and IPC have to grant permission ??

    Complaints to the SRA should now change and instead of a complaint it should be asked WHY they allow their members to scam the public contrary to the law. May command a different response. And if that response is the normal waffle like the legals then the media should be askling the same questions right up to Robert Buckland
      
  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    That appeal to authority fallacy working overtime again....

    that settlement amount is not unlawful. It's lower than the amount they're entitled to sue for of £175
  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,592 Forumite
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    1. That appeal to authority fallacy working overtime again....
    UIAM, it is in fact an appeal to ignorance.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance






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  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    It's a fallacy, because you're claiming a better understanding despite not being an actual expert in this area 
    you also cannot cite how the amount is unlawful. Because it isn't. You know it isn't. Hence why you keep avoiding citing how this amount is not lawful. Go on. Do it. Finally. Given your claims to superiority in every thread you post on, and your claims that £255 is a trivial amount for anyone, this should be easy. 
  • D_P_Dance
    D_P_Dance Posts: 11,592 Forumite
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    and your claims that £255 is a trivial amount for anyone, 

    There you go again, misrepresenting what I said.  Where did I use the word "anyone" 

    Indeed, £255 is a trivial amount for me, but it certainly is not for my brother in law.  
    You never know how far you can go until you go too far.
  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    Ah sorry, when you made the claim it IS a trivial amount, with no qualification, that's what you actually said. 
    Your imprecision in statement isn't my fault, I was relying on it. After all, your superiority is well known here.

    So, I notice you haven't shown how a settlement offer of £160 is unlawful yet. Please do so. It's a trivial request surely - you've stated it so confidently, more than once, and even think the SRA should take action as a result. Any case law or Acts would be good as a starting point. 
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