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B789

Having just spent the weekend with an old school friend who is a DJ. I had some good discussions with him and was surprised that he was not aware of the incoming PPCoP or at least that it was an Act of Parliament.

He deals with hundreds of these robo-claims every month. The main thing of interest I learnt from our talks was how much or little prep the judge puts into these cases. They literally spend 5-10 minutes max reading the defences or witness statements and most DJs, according to him don't really like long statements that run to many pages with lots of case studies. The best bit of advice he gave me was to make sure that the main point of defence should be in the first couple of paragraphs and should be punchy and to the point. He was quite amused when I mentioned "judge bingo".

Umkomaas

Having just spent the weekend with an old school friend who is a DJ.

At first read, I thought you had mates in the nightclub business! 😄

B789

        

Lagroid

B789 said:

Having just spent the weekend with an old school friend who is a DJ. I had some good discussions with him and was surprised that he was not aware of the incoming PPCoP or at least that it was an Act of Parliament.

He deals with hundreds of these robo-claims every month. The main thing of interest I learnt from our talks was how much or little prep the judge puts into these cases. They literally spend 5-10 minutes max reading the defences or witness statements and most DJs, according to him don't really like long statements that run to many pages with lots of case studies. The best bit of advice he gave me was to make sure that the main point of defence should be in the first couple of paragraphs and should be punchy and to the point. He was quite amused when I mentioned "judge bingo".

Defence template makes sense in that regard then (para 3 being punchy and to the point). 

Worried I might have over done my WS. PPCs WS is short, badly written and just keeps mentioning the same point over and over. 

I hope I don’t get shafted for being too thorough.

great insight so thanks for sharing

Humdinger1

Umkomaas said:

Having just spent the weekend with an old school friend who is a DJ.

At first read, I thought you had mates in the nightclub business! 😄

Last night, a DJ saved my life?! 

vst01

Also, would like to contribute when the times comes.

Umkomaas

vst01 said:

Also, would like to contribute when the times comes.

That will be great, the more the merrier. Keep an eye on this thread, maybe bookmark it and set up an email alert via your Profile to ensure you don't miss it. 

ms966

Commenting for future notifications so I can contribute when the consultations/feedback collection commence. 

Will also write to local MP to bring this to their attention, getting my family to do the same in different constituency and all prepared to share on various WhatsApp group chats.

“When spiders unite they can tie down a lion” - Ethiopian Proverb 💪🏼 

Boat_to_Bolivia

ms966 said:

Commenting for future notifications so I can contribute when the consultations/feedback collection commence. 

Will also write to local MP to bring this to their attention, getting my family to do the same in different constituency and all prepared to share on various WhatsApp group chats.

“When spiders unite they can tie down a lion” - Ethiopian Proverb 💪🏼 

Great stuff @ms966

weekp

Interesting thread! Commenting for updates!