Court date tomorrow: any final tips, tricks and advice?

Trainerman

Well done @dantheman02. Congratulations on a good win

dantheman02

@patient_dream
Not too sure what you mean, but the company was Vehicle Control Services Limited.
The legal company was ELMS Legal, I believe. I may be wrong, as I think they had a change of legal representation.

Jenni_D

The person who turned up for the hearing for the claimant was probably from neither company - rather a rent-a-legal from LPC Law or similar.

95Rollers

dantheman02 said:

Thank you very much. I am a prospective Law student (starting in September), so it's nice to have a case under my belt already lol xD

Totally agree with you, learnt a lot today.

Thanks again.

Well done. How many of your class mates will have first hand battle stories like this? 😉 

What a great result. Surely if he boasting "knows the Judge and his family well" then he is declaring a conflict of interest. I'd pop a report to the SRA. He was trying to insinuate  nepotism would be in his favour before even stepping foot into the court.   He could just be Bull5hitting - but I'd say his behaviour is worthy of a note to thr SRA.  Not the first Parking Legal to lie or be unprofessional. 

Fruitcake

95Rollers said:

dantheman02 said:

Thank you very much. I am a prospective Law student (starting in September), so it's nice to have a case under my belt already lol xD

Totally agree with you, learnt a lot today.

Thanks again.

Well done. How many of your class mates will have first hand battle stories like this? 😉 

What a great result. Surely if he boasting "knows the Judge and his family well" then he is declaring a conflict of interest. I'd pop a report to the SRA. He was trying to insinuate  nepotism would be in his favour before even stepping foot into the court.   He could just be Bull5hitting - but I'd say his behaviour is worthy of a note to thr SRA.  Not the first Parking Legal to lie or be unprofessional. 

That's a good point, but the OP would need to know who he was, and for which company they worked.

D_P_Dance

Well done and congratulations on your win, but what a waste of everyones' time these tiresome claims are.

WRT costs read this

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

and also read CPR27.14(2)(g) about unreasonable behaviour costs, you may not get them as many/most judges are totally blind when it comes to these time wasting claims, but it will be good experience and it is not expensive.