Vehicle Control Services court letter: 42-months after alleged incident, and no prior correspondence

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UPDATE:
Emailed in claim form & telephoned money claims online - confirmed that they have received my entire defence and that the other party had failed to submit anything prior to my email.

Cheers all.

Jenni_D

This was your defence (I assume, not the claim form)?

And it was the whole template defence with only points 2 and 3 amended, not simply point 3?

Le_Kirk

Jenni_D said:

This was your defence (I assume, not the claim form)?
And it was the whole template defence with only points 2 and 3 amended, not simply point 3?

...... and you sent it to the e-mail address not via MCOL on-line!

Redx

Hopefully you emailed it to the ccbcaq email address , not the 122 lines on MCOL , plus the whole defence and not just those 2 paragraphs. KeithP gave you full instructions on 17th January !!

We appreciate what you are doing at work , but ALWAYS check your facts , even when not at work. You are doing a great job so keep it up !! 😊

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Jenni_D said:

This was your defence (I assume, not the claim form)?

And it was the whole template defence with only points 2 and 3 amended, not simply point 3?

Yes, whole defence form - emailed with amendments to 2 & 3.

Le_Kirk said:

Jenni_D said:

This was your defence (I assume, not the claim form)?
And it was the whole template defence with only points 2 and 3 amended, not simply point 3?

...... and you sent it to the e-mail address not via MCOL on-line!

Sent to correct email address - ccbcaq and everything wentRedx said:

Hopefully you emailed it to the ccbcaq email address , not the 122 lines on MCOL , plus the whole defence and not just those 2 paragraphs. KeithP gave you full instructions on 17th January !!

We appreciate what you are doing at work , but ALWAYS check your facts , even when not at work. You are doing a great job so keep it up !! 😊

Thank you. Few extra hours rest today and feel better. Tragic thing is, the impact on the UK could have been stopped in March IF we had followed a 'Covid elimination' strategy and totally locked down (borders as well) for 2-3 weeks. Worked in other countries and they are back to (almost) normality. The fact we failed to do similar is galling to NHS staff.

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UPDATE:
Case defended - email sent through in time and confirmed with the courts. Form N180 received.
On a day off I read a letter from VCS in red capital letters stating "NOTICE OF RECOVERY" and highlighting that they had been awarded a CCJ against me on 12th February. The letter also threatened enforcement action and bailiffs. This was hugely distressing, and came during one of my worst weeks as an NHS professional.
I immediately rang the courts. The clerk advised that VCS had tried to seek a judgement on 12th February, however they were told that it was a defended claim.
VCS have thus mis-represented the decision of the court. I suspect that this is not uncommon.

Any advice on how to proceed?


Many thanks,

nosferatu1001

Yes, the claim is live, so you proceed exactly as normal for now
You could try to kick up a stink with VCS but they'll claim an "admin error" and youre not going to get a court to care

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nosferatu1001 said:

Yes, the claim is live, so you proceed exactly as normal for now
You could try to kick up a stink with VCS but they'll claim an "admin error" and youre not going to get a court to care

An 'admin error' even though there is 4 days between the court advising VCS that this was a defended claim and VCS sending their threatening letter?!
Seems more like incompetence or deliberate misrepresentation. As a medic, I would expect my regulator to be reviewing me if I made such an error (honest).

Coupon-mad

You can use it as an attachment with your Witness Statement later and at the hearing, to paint a picture of wholly unreasonable conduct, to try to get your full costs (hours of time) that are normally not allowed, but come into play of a party has acted vexatiously or wholly unreasonably.

nosferatu1001

Yep, admin. If the court sent a letter to VCS thats assumed 2 days for delivery, some processing time while COVID is putting staff out the office. Easily explained.