VCS Hit For £1,500 Counterclaim - 5 years worth of Harassment

Le_Kirk

D_P_Dance said:

What an !!!!!! the law is.   £1500 for thst sort of hassle is pernuts.

What is the conversion rate for pernuts to sterling?

What the case did show was how disorganised, especially with paperwork (lack of) everybody seemed to be and I include judge, solicitor's agent and even Mr Ferguson - defendant.

D_P_Dance

I have to say that imo the defendant put his case extremely badly.  

What on earth is wrong with the word I usesd for species asinus

bargepole

D_P_Dance said:

What an !!!!!! the law is.   £1500 for thst sort of hassle is pernuts.

Not at all.

£1,500 was the amount he counterclaimed, and he was awarded the full amount. It was not open to the Judge to assess the damages at a higher figure.

If he had claimed more, he may well have been awarded more, but he didn't, so he wasn't.

Snakes_Belly

Two questions

 Who is Mr Wally?

Why did Mr Tate ask for time for VCS to pay?

JB slipped up in trying to gag Mr Ferguson.

bargepole

Snakes_Belly said:

Two questions

 Who is Mr Wally?

Why did Mr Tate ask for time for VCS to pay?

I think Mr Wally, or some other name, must be the person who signed the original WS from VCS.

The reps are pre-programmed to ask for more time to pay, we wouldn't want to see the likes of SRS having to rely on Universal Credit, or getting his evening meal from the local food bank ...

MothballsWallet

Umkomaas said:

Phew, just got to the end!  He wasn't digging that hole with a spade, more like a JCB!

It just sticks in the craw that a PPC can make all those serious errors, wreck people's lives, then wriggle and squirm to protest innocence and argue not to pay a copper in compensation. Yet should a motorist be 2 minutes late back to his car .......

No doubt this case will haunt VCS in time yet to come!

@bargepole, thanks for the great heads up on this, much appreciated. 👏

Shall we start a gofundme for him to buy him a JCB for Christmas?

MothballsWallet

bargepole said:

Snakes_Belly said:

Two questions

 Who is Mr Wally?

Why did Mr Tate ask for time for VCS to pay?

I think Mr Wally, or some other name, must be the person who signed the original WS from VCS.

The reps are pre-programmed to ask for more time to pay, we wouldn't want to see the likes of SRS having to rely on Universal Credit, or getting his evening meal from the local food bank ...

He probably doesn't know what Universal Credit is, or where his local food bank is...

Le_Kirk

D_P_Dance said:

I have to say that imo the defendant put his case extremely badly.  

What on earth is wrong with the word I used for species asinus

Nothing, now I know you were referring to the "law is an !!!!!!" rather than £1,500 is peanuts!  But remember we don't know what you are thinking as you type and we don't all speak Latin.

D_P_Dance

He may have claimed that amount, but it is still peanuts, it would not even buy a second hand saddle for my bike.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294168298821?hash=item447dcc0545:g:6RMAAOSwDxJgmEGh

I have not spoken Latin since I left school.

Johnersh

Jesus wept.  That was never going to fly. VCS should've just made formal offers before the hearing then admitted the claim. They'd at least have had a chance of mitigating their costs.

The advocate comes perilously close to giving evidence - lots of surmising going on:  He's incorrectly described on p1 as a solicitor when he isn't. Mr Ferguson gives clearer answers. Pleased he had it handed to him. 

It seems the Ferguson clan are successful litigants on matters of harassment!  VCS v Ferguson & Ferguson v British Gas being the authorities.