DRP (Debt Recovery Plus) ..... Group Thread to ensure DRP are ignored

SSG4326

My wife has just had a letter threatening legal action from DRP, for a PCN in 2015, issued by CpPlus. 

She received a county court claim form in April, but after explaining the circumstances to the helpful people at RoadChef, the court case was discontinued. 

Should we ignore DRP? 

As the PCN has been written off, is this not now harassment & a breach of data protection. Also, can they take you to court for the same thing twice? 

Fruitcake

SSG4326 said:

My wife has just had a letter threatening legal action from DRP, for a PCN in 2015, issued by CpPlus. 

She received a county court claim form in April, but after explaining the circumstances to the helpful people at RoadChef, the court case was discontinued. 

Should we ignore DRP? 

As the PCN has been written off, is this not now harassment & a breach of data protection. Also, can they take you to court for the same thing twice? 

Make absolutely certain that this is for the same PCN/court case. If it is then complain to CP Plus/Group Nexus and the BPA.

If not, start a new thread and tell us the date of the alleged event. A court claim cannot be started after six years have passed, so you may need to engage with DRP to ensure it isn't passed back to the PPC if the six years are not yet up.

SSG4326

Fruitcake said:

SSG4326 said:

My wife has just had a letter threatening legal action from DRP, for a PCN in 2015, issued by CpPlus. 

She received a county court claim form in April, but after explaining the circumstances to the helpful people at RoadChef, the court case was discontinued. 

Should we ignore DRP? 

As the PCN has been written off, is this not now harassment & a breach of data protection. Also, can they take you to court for the same thing twice? 

Make absolutely certain that this is for the same PCN/court case. If it is then complain to CP Plus/Group Nexus and the BPA.

If not, start a new thread and tell us the date of the alleged event. A court claim cannot be started after six years have passed, so you may need to engage with DRP to ensure it isn't passed back to the PPC if the six years are not yet up.

It’s definitely the same PCN, issued 16/12/2015. 

What’s the best way to go about making a complaint? 

D_P_Dance

Complain to your MP?  Complain to Roachchef, consider a LBA to the PPC

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/legal-system/small-claims/making-a-small-claim/

SSG4326

Thanks for your advice, it’s appreciated. 

The reason we fought it was that my wife’s car was blocked in by contractors vehicles, so couldn’t leave. She subsequently missed a hospital appointment, which when she finally got another one 6 months later, led to her being diagnosed with cancer. 

The threats of having legal action taken against her has just added to the already stressful 5 1/2 years. 

She’s recently had more surgery, so I’m going to be talking on the fight for her. 

I’m thinking I’ll complain to anyone who will listen. 

Fruitcake

SSG4326 said:

Fruitcake said:

SSG4326 said:

My wife has just had a letter threatening legal action from DRP, for a PCN in 2015, issued by CpPlus. 

She received a county court claim form in April, but after explaining the circumstances to the helpful people at RoadChef, the court case was discontinued. 

Should we ignore DRP? 

As the PCN has been written off, is this not now harassment & a breach of data protection. Also, can they take you to court for the same thing twice? 

Make absolutely certain that this is for the same PCN/court case. If it is then complain to CP Plus/Group Nexus and the BPA.

If not, start a new thread and tell us the date of the alleged event. A court claim cannot be started after six years have passed, so you may need to engage with DRP to ensure it isn't passed back to the PPC if the six years are not yet up.

It’s definitely the same PCN, issued 16/12/2015. 

What’s the best way to go about making a complaint? 

Again, I suggest you start your own thread to deal with this. We need to know the date of the event if different to the issue date of the PCN as well as what has happened since then.

Complaints should be made in writing to the landowner, the PPC, DRP, the BPA, and your MP that the court case was withdrawn but you are still receiving demands for monies.

CP Plus/Group Nexus shouldn't be able to start another claim for the same event, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.

patient_dream

SSG4326 said:

My wife has just had a letter threatening legal action from DRP, for a PCN in 2015, issued by CpPlus. 

She received a county court claim form in April, but after explaining the circumstances to the helpful people at RoadChef, the court case was discontinued. 

Should we ignore DRP? 

As the PCN has been written off, is this not now harassment & a breach of data protection. Also, can they take you to court for the same thing twice? 

DRP are no threat to you and generally they are ignored as they are 100% powerless.  However, they have a duty to respond to CP Plus with what you say.  On that basis, you should pass the buck back to DRP and tell them that on the instructions of RoadChef the charge was cancelled.
Request they confirm this to you in writing

It does sound that CP Plus are poor record keepers and don't know what the left hand is doing to the right ?

Send a copy to RoadChef telling them that CP Plus has ignored them.

Let them do the work for you

95Rollers

D_P_Dance said:

I disagree,  solicitors have a duty to ensure that their clients do not raise false claims, thus exposing themselves to sanction.   Read this.

https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/standards-regulations/code-conduct-solicitors/

In some cases the Debt chasers and Solicitors are the same company such as DCBL who have a collections arm and a legal services department who deal with both aspects of the case.  As someone pointed out on another thread - the minute they take on the claim then they are partaking in the double recovery. Most parking companies and their legal representatives know this because they have countless cases struck out for Abuse of Process and their are stated test cases to refer on. They are chancing their arm in the hope of someone being frightened into paying up before court ot getting lucky with a judge who is not clued up or defendant who can't communicate a case articulately and gets flustered on the day or doesn't prep!

I'll definitely be making a report to SRA on the grounds of double recovery, lack of transparencies and some questionable exhibits/  omission of important evidence (cherry picking their exhibits so the dice is always loaded in their favour).