County Court Claim - NCP Parking outstayed by 20 mins

Monseymoo

My plan is to then draft my defense after the AOS is submitted I will do whats suggested altering only paragraphs 2 and 3 as suggested by @Le_Kirk (thank you).  From other discussions I thought there was substance to the inflated charges for such short additional parking time (20 mins) or should this just be left out of the arguement?  Do you suggest I focus on what happened which led me to overpark by this amount of time?

Redx

There are no inflated charges due to any alleged overstay , grace periods cover such issues

The inflated charges are already in the template defence (  no S in the word Defence !!  )

There should be no admissions in a defence , the defence is denying the claim

KeithP

Monseymoo said:

Apologies all yes I received the letter from the courts last Thurs and it was dated 10th Feb 2021 I plan to AOS tomorrow or early next week as I understand I have 14 days from the date it was dated?

Then ignore my earlier post.

With a Claim Issue Date of 10th February, you have until Monday 1st March to file an Acknowledgment of Service, but there is nothing to be gained by delaying it. 

To file an AoS, follow the guidance in the Dropbox file linked from the second post in the NEWBIES thread.

Having filed an AoS, you have until 4pm on Monday 15th March 2021 to file your Defence.

That's four weeks away. Plenty of time to produce a Defence, but please don't leave it to the last minute.

To create a Defence, and then file a Defence by email, look again at the second post on the NEWBIES thread - immediately following where you found the Acknowledgment of Service instructions.

Don't miss the deadline for filing an Acknowledgment of Service, nor that for filing a Defence.

Monseymoo

@KeithP would appreciate your help yes dates are:
Parked NCP carpark Jan 2020
County Court letter received Thurs 11th Feb dated Weds 10th Feb, I have obtained all information from NCP via email against  my name and registration number.

Redx

Do the AOS , draft your 2 paragraphs , post them below for critique !!

Those are your current tasks now

Monseymoo

@Redx @KeithP thanks both I'll get the AOS completed tomorrow and work on the 2 paragraphs this weekend to post in here early next week thanks again

Coupon-mad

Why do you say this?

 I got a parking ticket from NCP for over £100 for outstaying my 1 hour, they had footage of me leaving about 20 mins after the hour I had paid.  Based on information on here I ignored all letters 

  We haven't told people to ignore private PCNs since 2013.  Eight years ago.  You could have had this cancelled with one email. So frustrating.

Monseymoo

@Redx and @KeithP Ok I submitted the AOS last friday (26th Feb) I believe I have until 4pm Monday 15th to submit my defence.  I have tried to keep it simple and read through guidelines could you both be so kind as to read and provide any feedback thanks so much in advance!

2.       It is admitted that the Defendant was the registered keeper of the vehicle in question but liability is denied.  

3.       The defendant returned to their car within the 1 hour paid duration, upon entering their car they realised that their wallet was not in their bag.  They then checked under the car foot well to see if it had fallen out, upon realising it wasn’t in the vehicle they retraced their steps along the car park and down to the main high street to try and locate their wallet.  They then went to the last store they had visited where the wallet had been used.  Upon visiting the store the defendant was told by the security guard checking after that a wallet had indeed been handed into customer services.  The defendant provided details of what was in the contents of the wallet to the customer services desk to validate identity and left the store with the wallet to return back to the car.  The defendant entered their car and left the car park relieved that the wallet had been located to return home.

Monseymoo

Just realised I should maybe change car to vehicle so will make this change

Redx

2 should state keeper and driver , if you are defending as driver , as suggested in 3

Vehicle is definitely better than car