Claim Form and confusion. OPS and several bottom feeders. WON at Hearing😁😁

patient_dream

Good report.

DDJ Worthley knew all about OPS .... all the courts on the south coast know about OPS


Without going back through this thread, do I assume the losing legal was QDR ?

So OPS have to pay you £285 and whatever the legal charges

OPS should now be suing the legal for total incompetence

Well done, the perfect win

Coupon-mad

Absolutely LOVE this court report and it reassures me that the local Judges are not being swayed by the awful OPS Appeal Judgment in OPS v Wilshaw where an honest and upstanding 70 year old woman had to part pay for OPS' four figure costs.

Each case is different but yours is sweet karma.

D_P_Dance

In my opinion, £19 an hour is chicken feed..  In the 90s, whern I was a British Consul, my time was charged to members of the public at over £80 an hour, now it is over £150 an hour.  When I had bto fly from Houston to Santa Fe in regard to a child custody case my costs exceeded £1,000.  

MothballsWallet

Johnersh said:

I spend my life creating letters that can one day be shown to the judge, so add my agreement to the need to preserve everything and present your paperwork clearly and logically.  Create a folder at the outset (paper or electronic) and save everything within it. 

CVP - neither good nor intuitive. God only knows why the court service can't use MS Teams or Zoom like everyone else. Why invent a platform that someone else has already spent many millions of dollars developing. 

I agree with @Johnersh - different law field, but our awesome immigration solicitor likes working with us because I keep a copy of everything relevant, so anyone dealing with these PCNs would be best to do the same thing.

95Rollers

hju456 said:

Held at Worthing Country Court via CVP.

Before DDJ Worthley.

The Judge went on to say that he was fully aware of OPS and had dealt with their Claims before. 

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 “Your Honour for over four years I have corresponded with OPS and all their agents and Solicitors threatening me knowing  that they had no legal right to do so. I have had to assure my wife that our credit file will not be compromised. OPS  are bullies and regrettably most people fall foul of their tactics. They have been informed numerous times that they can not hold the registered keeper liable but they have continued like a runaway train. The supplementary witness statement was sent late and without the Courts permission.The supplementary statement is total conflicted with the first statement. Further the Claimant has failed to attend today and failed to inform you that they could not attend. The Court is being used as a tool to intimidate and threaten people that do not understand their rights Your Honour, I would consider all of this as unreasonable behaviour ”

That closing statement by you sums it all up!  I've reiterated this in my defence and upcoming witness statement. Anytime I get any correspondence from DCB, OPS, ZZPS and QDR it just tipped me in a foul rage and if I didn't have an understanding of the law or my rights I could see how persons would feel pressured into paying through through the nose for a very minor trangression which caused OPS no loss whatsoever and only occurred due to their predatory tactics (I.e placing up poorly positioned non-BPA compliant signage, lying, making threats, questionable use of ANPR tech etc then harassing you with their debt monkeys and contractors with factually incorrect threats). 

Excellent result, excellent judgement and top work by you!  Thanks for sharing - what was the case reference number.  I'm going to compile a list of cases that they flake out during the 11th hour of as it recurring behaviour and a waste of everyone's time. They know their claims are spurious tosh and still pursue them despite the vast majority of past judgments/ strike outs on them yet refuse to make any positive changes in regards to the recurring problems/ confusion about how motorists get PCNs by them.  That is enough proof they are predatory bullies!  Absolute joke of a company just like most clampers were. 

You also stated that OPS are "using the court as a tool" which is exactly what Gavin Price one of their 3 directors said they were doing in direct quote when the Times did an article about their practices.  Which I've printed off and will scan later. 

bargepole

An excellent win against these chancers, and a comprehensive report.

Just one pedantic note: A District Judge, or Deputy, should be addressed as 'Sir' or 'Madam'.

'Your Honour' is the form of address for a Circuit Judge, or a High Court Jydge.

bargepole

In my opinion, £19 an hour is chicken feed..

The rate is set by the MoJ in Practice Direction 46, part 3.4:

3.4  The amount, which may be allowed to a self represented litigant under rule 45.39(5)(b) and rule 46.5(4)(b), is £19 per hour.

I don't think they considered what the hourly rate for a British Consul in the 1990s may have been. But an hourly rate of £19 is equivalent to £37,050 per annum tax free, which is more than most people earn.