Highview Parking Limited - County Court Claim Letter

Le_Kirk

To answer your other question, we say NO to mediation because the mediator will try to tell you that you have no proper defence, you have copied it "from the internet" - so what - and they will just want you to pay the full amount.  Mediation is useful when the outcome has been decided and it is only the level of costs that are up for "negotiation"; in your case the outcome is not decided until a judge tells you!

si_121

Further update and advice required.

I have a court hearing in January but have recently received an email from Highview Parking offering to settle outside of court at £210 (outstanding costs are said to be £298). 

To be honest, I don’t think I have all that much of a defence and would like to avoid attending court if possible so I’m inclined to take them up on this offer but would you the experts here suggest?  If I do go down the route of settling, should I at least make a counter offer initially or is this basically admitting liability?  Is there a wording I could use to avoid this such as HPL have in their email (“Without Prejudice to Save Costs”).

What is the typical result of somebody losing in court? Do they have to pay the entire balance stated by the claimant or will the judge usually state another amount?

Coupon-mad

Ignore it.  This is standard rubbish.  Honestly, this is a game of poker. Sit tight and they may well discontinue altogether.

Even if you lost at the hearing (NO CCJ IF YOU PAY WITHIN 30 DAYS OF JUDGMENT) the amount you'd pay would be less than that! 

What do you/they mean by "outstanding costs are said to be £298"?  What on earth?!

The costs in this claim so far, are at best £85 (£35 filing fee plus £50 capped legal fees) and the parking charge is no more than £100 because the £70 'DRA fee' added is false.

si_121

Coupon-mad said:

Ignore it.  This is standard rubbish.  Honestly, this is a game of poker. Sit tight and they may well discontinue altogether.

Even if you lost at the hearing (NO CCJ IF YOU PAY WITHIN 30 DAYS OF JUDGMENT) the amount you'd pay would be less than that! 

What do you/they mean by "outstanding costs are said to be £298"?  What on earth?!

The costs in this claim so far, are at best £85 (£35 filing fee plus £50 capped legal fees) and the parking charge is no more than £100 because the £70 'DRA fee' added is false.

You were right. I received an email from DCB Legal last week stating that their client had instructed them to discontinue court proceedings so the file has now been closed.

Thanks for your helpful advice. 

Coupon-mad

si_121 said:

Coupon-mad said:

Ignore it.  This is standard rubbish.  Honestly, this is a game of poker. Sit tight and they may well discontinue altogether.

Even if you lost at the hearing (NO CCJ IF YOU PAY WITHIN 30 DAYS OF JUDGMENT) the amount you'd pay would be less than that! 

What do you/they mean by "outstanding costs are said to be £298"?  What on earth?!

The costs in this claim so far, are at best £85 (£35 filing fee plus £50 capped legal fees) and the parking charge is no more than £100 because the £70 'DRA fee' added is false.

You were right. I received an email from DCB Legal last week stating that their client had instructed them to discontinue court proceedings so the file has now been closed.

Thanks for your helpful advice. 

Woohoo!

ANOTHER DISCONTINUANCE!

Calling @Umkomaas 

ANOTHER HIGHVIEW ONE BITES THE DUST!

And we sincerely hope that you are au fait with the need to respond to the final Govt Public Consultation?

Hopefully - amongst all the political disruption - it will be open later this year.

We all need to ram the nail in the coffin of the false £70 'DRA fee' add-on, that actually funds the court claim and toxic CCJ culture, as well as the DRA gaslighting of people.

Just checking you are among those ready to respond to the questions as you have personal experience of how this crap feels?

Please come back here when it opens, and you can make sure you don't miss the Consultation:

If you are not a regular reader, to be alerted you'll need to bookmark the thread by MSE_JC at the top of the forum and enable (on your profile) email alerts for bookmarked threads.

Then join us when the Consultation opens.  Instead of that hearing in January, do the Public Consultation and get your revenge!

Sorry if you knew all this already - I had no time to check back through the thread.