Smart Parking, DCB Legal, LoC 2025

christinajane

Hello,

Just a little update.

I have done the government survey and earlier today I received an email from DCB legal via email in response to my email using the template from here. This is pretty much the main body of their email below: 

We write to acknowledge safe receipt of your formal response to our Letter of Claim sent to you in respect of this matter.

Having considered your response, our position in respect of this matter remains as per our Letter of Claim.

The amount owed is no more than the original amount of the Parking Charge plus the recovery fee. The ‘Genuine pre-estimate of loss’ argument was often advanced in parking ticket claims prior to Parking Eye -v- Beavis [2015]. This issue was settled in that case.

Furthermore, our Client is a member of the British Parking Association and pursuant to 24.1b, “Where a Parking Charge becomes overdue and before Court Proceedings have commenced, a reasonable sum (which covers the cost of recovering debt) may be added for the debt recovery fees. This sum must not exceed £70 unless prior approval from the BPA has been granted”. No VAT has been added as the sum owed is a legally owed debt.

The sum added is a contribution to the actual costs incurred by our Client as a result of your non-payment. Our Client’s employees have spent time and material attempting to recover the debt. This is not our Client’s usual business and the resources could have been better spent in other areas of the business. Had you of paid as per the Contract, there would have been no need for recovery action so the amount due would not have increased.

As per your request, your file will now be placed on hold 30 days from the date of this email, after which you will be required to make payment of the outstanding balance of £170.00. Failure to make payment will result in a Claim being issued against you without any further reference.

Payment can be made via bank transfer to our designated client account: -

• Account Name: DCB Legal Ltd Client Account
• Sort Code: 20-24-09
• Account Number: 60964441

Just sounds like another one of their letters but in email form...

patient_dream

Did DCBL really send you that letter ?
WHAT A LOAD OF UTTER CRAP

"The amount owed is no more than the original amount of the Parking Charge plus the recovery fee".

"The ‘Genuine pre-estimate of loss’ argument was often advanced in parking ticket claims prior to Parking Eye -v- Beavis [2015]. This issue was settled in that case"

Talk about a load of rubbish, the Supreme Court actually ruled that the amount of the parking charge (then £85), covered the cost of operating the scheme,  DCBL are misleading you and the court,  The SUPREME COURT NEVER SPOKE OF FAKE AMOUNTS BEING ADDED and in DCBL cases, use words like DAMAGES whicj of course is even more rubbish

"Furthermore, our Client is a member of the British Parking Association and pursuant to 24.1b, “Where a Parking Charge becomes" overdue and before Court Proceedings have commenced, a reasonable sum (which covers the cost of recovering debt) may be added for the debt recovery fees.

OH YES ..... THE BPA, full of rogue traders and one in particular ..... GARY OSNER of ZZPS who is a debt collector, thet cooked up the fake scam together. BUT the BPA and ZZPS are not a law, it was just a way to extort money from the motorist, 

"The sum added is a contribution to the actual costs incurred by our Client as a result of your non-payment. Our Client’s employees have spent time and material attempting to recover the debt."

REMEMBER THE RULING OF THE SUPREME COURT ????

"This is not our Client’s usual business and the resources could have been better spent in other areas of the business. Had you of paid as per the Contract"

MORE JUNK, who is their client .. a fishmonger ?    REMEMBER THE SUPREME COURT RULING?

Thankfully court Judges know all about the Supreme Court ruling and will also see this DCBL letter as a load of rubbish, so do the SRA and such scare tactics should be reported to them, and your own MP

Until DCBL start behaving as professionals, you have no option but to ignore and let a court spank them .... which they will

christinajane

Yeah it sounds like utter crap. I guess im just going to ignore it. Their client in this case is smart parking.

Gr1pr

Standard reply, as expected,  ignore 

christinajane

Hi everyone,
Just today received the response pack - all looks very serious and now the cost has gone up to £308.48. 
I will read the pinned posts for information for this stage but any help you can give me directly would be much appreciative. 

They're like a dog with a bone! 

Gr1pr

Which stage are you currently at  ?  The N1SDT claim pack stage   ?

christinajane

Its a letter from the HM courts with a few forms to fill in depending on how Im going to proceed. There is a N9A and an N9B form for example included. So not sure if these are the ones you mean? I have to reply within 14 days by the looks of it.

I can't find anything specific on the pinned posts yet - just going through it now. 

Gr1pr

Sounds like a Money Claim N1SDT pack from the CNBC in Northampton using MCOL 

No need to fill in any forms,  online only for now 

Post the Issue date from the top right of the claim form,  the name of the claimant parking company and presumably it's Smart Parking via DCB Legal   ?

Also post a redacted picture of the POC from the lower left of the claim form below after hiding the VRM details first 

Gr1pr

Delete that unredacted picture ASAP,  it breaks the forum rules,  the reference is on show 

Only the claim form matters for the moment,  but you must redact the following details 

Name and address 
Claim form reference number 
VRM details in the POC
Password on the lower right hand side 

christinajane

Sorry! Ive deleted - doing it on a  phone and its not so easy 😂

This is the actual form I think you meant with everything redacted - hopefully!