County Court Claim received, parking fine from 2 years ago - drafting a defence

Qrbrrbl

Found it, was looking at completely the wrong threads - thanks.

Link for anyone else struggling to find who stumbles across this: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/77317938#Comment_77317938

Given this is on the form itself and not through email I'm inclined to just use the below for conciseness:

I am not content for the case to be heard 'on the papers' because that seems to disproportionately give an advantage to a legally represented party.  I feel strongly after all these years of intimidating demands from this aggressive parking firm and their agents, that I need a voice at an attended hearing.  

I wish to question the Claimant about their evidence at a hearing in person and to expose omissions and any misleading or incorrect evidence or assertions. 

Given the Claimant is a firm who complete cut & paste parking case paperwork for a living, having this case heard solely on papers would appear to put the Claimant at an unfair advantage, especially as they would no doubt prefer the Defendant not to have the opportunity to expose the issues in the Claimants template submissions or speak as the only true witness to events in question.

Might be overly wordy given the space on the 

Coupon-mad

Cheers for finding that link.

I remember that now and have just this minute, heavily edited it to make sense and remove mention of lockdown.

You can use some or all of it.

In fact, your version looks great.

Qrbrrbl

Just by way of update, I have received a letter from QDR advising they will be proceeding with the case and have been sent the (old style without the new D1 question) N180 form to complete and send back to the court, which I will be doing in the next day or so.

Qrbrrbl

Just as an aside, I'm assuming that the mediation option would be a non-starter? I'd expect that if I agree to mediation I would be expected to agree to some sort of compromise in the middle where I would still have to pay, which obviously isnt what I want to do?

Coupon-mad

Yep.

Fully covered by @bargepole in his guide to the court process. It's linked in the 2nd post of the NEWBIES thread under the RED CAPITALS heading:

IMPORTANT: KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN

Friendly87

Coupon-mad said:

Cheers for finding that link.

I remember that now and have just this minute, heavily edited it to make sense and remove mention of lockdown.

You can use some or all of it.

In fact, your version looks great.

Your description is very useful however,
New question D1.  description on form N180 allows only about 500 characters (  about 76 words). would it be possible to provide short description please ?

Le_Kirk

There is a whole thread devoted to the new question started by @Grizebeck - go to their profile and click on discussions and scroll down to find those started by them

Friendly87

DQ has limited space for new D1 ( form N180 ) suggested answer. i have created the page with full answer if anyone wants to use it  

Le_Kirk

bs1998 said:

Thank for that, but as I received it as a paper copy, and I don't have a typewriter, I have to fill it in by hand. I hope they can read my writing!

You can download a copy that you can fill in and send by e-mail; instructions are in the defence template thread.

Trainerman

bs1998 said:

Thank for that, but as I received it as a paper copy, and I don't have a typewriter, I have to fill it in by hand. I hope they can read my writing!

You can fill one in online and download it. Gov.uk I think