HOW TO BEAT QDR SOLICITORS...and all parking tickets, debt collection agencies etc.

Agmiller74

Hello forum,

I posted something similar last night (29th September) but the post was removed as I had included personal information which I hadn't realised is against the rules...although the details of all involved are easily obtained with the most rudimentary online search.

However, here I go again.
I hope the redaction is successful and the post remains intact.



I was supposed to be in court today (30th September) at 10am to defend myself against claimant National Car Parks Limited and the solicitors working on their behalf QDR Solicitors Limited.

They were coming after me for 6 alleged parking contraventions dating back to 2016.
The global sum was almost £1300.

Here's the sequence of events -

21st Feb, I received the following - 









With this came a letter directing me to Moneyclaimonline and as it looked like an official government website, I panicked, entered a part admission, offered part payment and agreed to mediation.

All was denied and I soon received the following - 










Shortly after, the following arrived - 













With the above came directions on how to proceed; A witness statement must be produced by both claimant and defendant and delivered to each other and the court no later than 14 days before the date of the hearing.

I then spent a long time creating what I considered to be a pretty solid witness statement.
I was helped greatly by the information on these wonderful forums.

The main defence of the witness statement was procedural impropriety with regards to signage, qualifying the solicitors extortionate admin charges and case specific semantics over land ownership.
I'm proud of it and if you'd like to have a look (if you want to go down the route of defence) please feel free to contact me and I will happily forward.

Perhaps a month before the witness statement submission date, I decide to shelve the witness statement and rather than try to defend myself against the allegations, I decided to question the validity of those making allegations.

I then produced the following - 











I posted special delivery to QDR 2 days before witness statement submission deadline with the following cover letter - 









As mentioned in the above cover letter, here is page 30 'Addendum' of the witness Statement which I hand delivered to the court -









2 days prior to the witness statement submission deadline, I had received nothing from QDR.
I can only presume they were waiting to see what I had.

By serving them the notice, however, I gave them 10 days to respond.

5 days before I was due to go to court, I received the following - 












And 2 days later - 












So that is how I beat them.

If QDR had been able to rebut any of my points and I had gone to court today, I'm confident that I would've won, in which case, I believe, the hearing would become a public record available to all.

I don't think any private parking company, debt collection agency or solicitor working on their behalf would want that...so that's why I'm trying to spread it as much as I can.

Today was a really good day!

Johnersh

Nicely done on keeping the pressure up, I'm pleased for you.

I'd caution whether that farrago of statute and legalese contains any "dead cert" argument that compels discontinuance. 

Generally, a few targeted and properly reasoned points are much more effective than throwing the kitchen sink at it. 

Agmiller74

Thanks Johnersh,

The witness statement contained the properly reasoned points but by way of defence.
This was my first go at attack so I thought kitchen sink throwing might make something stick...and it did.

I reported them to the SRA today, for what it's worth.

95Rollers

Excellent result and thanks for sharing. l am looking to report QDR to the SRA as well.

patient_dream

Great story .... you have done the right thing by reporting QDR to the SRA

Fruitcake

Well done on your win and thanks for letting us know.
The problem with a discontinuance however is that we will never know which point or points convinced them to pull out. That does not detract from your efforts and your successful result.

Agmiller74

Thanks Fruitcake.

I agree, I'd like to know which point or points encouraged them to desist as I gave them a long list of possible procedural impropriety to think about but I feel the Bills of exchange stuff might have been enough.

D_P_Dance

They have wasted your time, now waste theirs and complain to your MP.  Read this,

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

Castle

Stanmore underground station is subject to TFL Railway Byelaws, so POFA wouldn't apply.

Agmiller74

Hi Caste, I had many back and forths with TFL alerting them to their tenants procedural impropriety and they couldn’t have cared less.
They deferred everything to NCP who manage the land and who were the ones taking me to court.

D_P_Dance

Not surpiseing, you are dealing with staff who would fail Ministry  of Pensions entrance exams.