Getting change of address sorted for PCNs

KeithP

You were expecting that, weren't you?

Item 7 on that check list you were following when you filed a Defence says...

Items 8, 9 and 10 on that list might be worth another read.

Lought_TA

Yep all expected thanks KeithP! More of a general update for now.

Lought_TA

Just refreshing this to ask a question around timelines on receiving my N180 form from the court.

It's now been nearly 4 weeks since my correspondence from DCBL - how long does it normally take the court to send out my N180 to complete? I'm just conscious that I don't want it to have gone missing and I miss my time allowed to send it back.

Boat_to_Bolivia

Check your MCOL history to see if the court has sent it to you yet?

If so, you can download one and email it back to the court and a copy to the claimant.

Lought_TA

Ah ok - thanks @Boat_to_Bolivia! I didn't realise MCOL would update at each event.

Last update within claim history is still my defence received with latest document listed as AoS on the Response History on the front page.

I'll keep waiting.

KeithP

Lought_TA said:

Just refreshing this to ask a question around timelines on receiving my N180 form from the court.

It's now been nearly 4 weeks since my correspondence from DCBL - how long does it normally take the court to send out my N180 to complete? I'm just conscious that I don't want it to have gone missing and I miss my time allowed to send it back.

The CCBC sent you a letter, or will send you a letter, saying the Claimant has twenty eight days to consider your Defence.

What you don't know is when the CCBC sent a copy of your Defence to the Claimant. 

It follows from that that it is not known when the Claimant has to respond to the CCBC. 

Further, we don't know what delays there are in the CCBC that means they don't send you a Directions Questionnaire as promptly as you might like.

Can I suggest that you keep checking your MCOL Claim History and as soon as you see that the CCBC has sent a DQ to you, you are ready to download a DQ, complete it and fire it back at the CCBC, remembering to send a copy to the Claimant of course?

Lought_TA

Understood @KeithP - I will keep checking MCOL.

Thanks again for the guidance!

Lought_TA

I'm finally at the N180 form stage and having found a guidance answer for question D1 (suitability for determination without a hearing) - this now appears too big to fit in the new box on the N180 form. (Previous threads from 2022 have a much bigger space for this question on the form)

Is there a new guidance answer as the following is too big:

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.

I'm also unsure if I should just add a text box to the form and squeeze that answer in on a tiny font as I don't know if the CCBC would accept that?

B789

Lought_TA said:

I'm also unsure if I should just add a text box to the form and squeeze that answer in on a tiny font as I don't know if the CCBC would accept that?

Precisely what you have said. I found that Arial 9pt is the perfect size font for it to fit. Why wouldn't the CCBC accept it? You could print the form and write it by hand if you were inclined to do that. It is a form with information that is processed by hand anyway.

Fruitcake

If it won't fit then cut it down, but wait to see what others say first. There is quite a bit that could be removed without affecting the meaning.