Company trying to chase an unpaid parking ticket from 2016 without proof

Supersonos

greyteam1959 said:

OP

If that really is your car reg number I would remove it ASAP.

Why?  What can someone do with a car reg?  I ask because I drive around quite a lot clearly displaying mine on my car.

Jenni_D

Hi - I think it's more in relation to the parking company being able to identify the person on this forum via the VRM, location and linking it to the PCN they issued. (It's known that many parking companies read this forum, although more typically the Parking board).

Herzlos

The parking companies monitor the boards and have tried to use posts before as evidence that the driver admitted to the parking 'infraction'. They are pretty desperate scammers who will do what they can to force people to pay up or beat them in court, because they know their invoices have no merit.

Jumblebumble

Jenni_D said:

Hi - you need to send a SAR to Parking Eye (if you haven't already); that should fish out the full details of the original charge and what was sent where. You might also want to ask to get this moved to the parking board - they seem to have the most up-to-date information about these things.

Jenni x

Why would the OP want to waste a second doing any such thing ?
DCBL have no evidence and a court would laugh at them if they tried to go to court
( They have no powers at all before a court rules)

Homer_home

Jumblebumble said:

Jenni_D said:

Hi - you need to send a SAR to Parking Eye (if you haven't already); that should fish out the full details of the original charge and what was sent where. You might also want to ask to get this moved to the parking board - they seem to have the most up-to-date information about these things.

Jenni x

Why would the OP want to waste a second doing any such thing ?
DCBL have no evidence and a court would laugh at them if they tried to go to court
( They have no powers at all before a court rules)

Fyi 

DCBL cannot take the op to court as they do not own the debt all they can do is send begging letters asking you to pay
Parking eye could take the op to court if they had any evidence but not DCBL

Op - just send a cease and desist letter to DCBL thanking them for confirming that there is no evidence, that you deny the claim , to stop sending you letters as you will not reply and file any letters (not in the bin!)

Jenni_D

The point was more about not poking the sleeping lion - i.e. not showing them that they had a weak position. So I've no problems with the post. But then again that was discussed and clarified 2 days before Jumblebumble posted, so the post was already irrelevant.

Navigator123

I would send a letter before action to DCBL informing them that if they choose to persist with their claim it is your intention to issue legal proceedings against them under the Theft Act for Conspiracy to Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage.
Do not forget to send the letter by Special Delivery.  In this case standard recorded delivery is not enough should you have to go to court and SD shows the company that you are serious.

I was in an almost identical position about 18 months ago and sent such a letter.  I am still waiting for a reply.

Car_54

Navigator123 said:

I would send a letter before action to DCBL informing them that if they choose to persist with their claim it is your intention to issue legal proceedings against them under the Theft Act for Conspiracy to Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage.
Do not forget to send the letter by Special Delivery.  In this case standard recorded delivery is not enough should you have to go to court and SD shows the company that you are serious.

1.  A letter before action is not appropriate. It is a preliminary to a County Court claim, not a private criminal prosecution for conspiracy.

2.  Who do you imagine DCBL are conspiring with?

3.  Even if they were conspiring, the Theft Act did not cover conspiracy, which is a common law offence, and the section (16) which prohibited obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception was repealed in 2007, and superseded by the Fraud Act 2006.

4.  Such a letter would not show them you were serious. It would simply show them that you were very ill-advised indeed.

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Navigator123 said:

I would send a letter before action to DCBL informing them that if they choose to persist with their claim it is your intention to issue legal proceedings against them under the Theft Act for Conspiracy to Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage.
Do not forget to send the letter by Special Delivery.  In this case standard recorded delivery is not enough should you have to go to court and SD shows the company that you are serious.

I was in an almost identical position about 18 months ago and sent such a letter.  I am still waiting for a reply.

Did you say you would also not be tried in a Maritime Court and they didn't use your ReAl nAmE?

DiddyDavies

Navigator123 said:

I would send a letter before action to DCBL informing them that if they choose to persist with their claim it is your intention to issue legal proceedings against them under the Theft Act for Conspiracy to Obtain a Pecuniary Advantage.
Do not forget to send the letter by Special Delivery.  In this case standard recorded delivery is not enough should you have to go to court and SD shows the company that you are serious.

Sending a letter stating all of that wouldn't show that they are serious.
It would simply show that they don't have any understanding or knowledge about the laws currently in force in the UK at the present time and about all it would actually achieve is to give the DCBL lawyers a good laugh.