Next step in PCN challenge?

ReadySteadyMove

Coupon-mad said:

Just ignore them now.  NO TRYING IAS.

Sadly, as you suspect, you mucked it up, because EPS don't use POFA wording.  Regardless of the 14 days, they can't hold a keeper liable. But if someone appeals blabbing about being the driver, they throw the POFA protection in the bin.

Anyone in England/Wales has up to six years to sue.  So the max time is six years for them to litigate and typically they might take a year or more. So keep ALL letters and if you move house you MUST TELL THEM.  Never let a PPC hold onto an old address as that way a secret CCJ lies.

Apart from that, no paying, no getting scared by laughable debt letters.

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Hi Coupon-mad, thanks for the advice to inform the PPC if I move. I have now relocated and wondered is writing the best way to let them know my new address? Also, have received a solicitors letter re. acting on their behalf to collect charges. I assume I need to let both PCC & Solicitor know. Is letter to both re. new address best option? Anything else I should/should not put in the letter other than the new address?

Also, re. consultation, wondered if I've missed it? Been checking, though not always weekly, but not seen anything that looked like a consultation...??

Thank you

B789

You've not missed the consultation. It is on hold for a judicial review on a couple of points.

Regarding your change of address, you must email both the PPC and the lawyers and tell them your new address and for them to ERASE your old one. Hopefully, your new address is out of the UK as you mentioned which will frustrate the scammers claimant to no end as they will have to give up on their claim.

Not_A_Hope

You should inform Euro Parking Services by email or letter your new address for service and require them to amend their records accordingly and erase your former address. You should also require them to update anyone working on their behalf.

It doesn’t sound as though they have got to LBC / solicitor involvement yet. However far too often PPCs have won a claim in court as a consequence of using (sometimes deliberately) an old address resulting in a default CCJ that the defendant knew nothing about.

ReadySteadyMove

Not_A_Hope said:

You should inform Euro Parking Services by email or letter your new address for service and require them to amend their records accordingly and erase your former address. You should also require them to update anyone working on their behalf.

It doesn’t sound as though they have got to LBC / solicitor involvement yet. However far too often PPCs have won a claim in court as a consequence of using (sometimes deliberately) an old address resulting in a default CCJ that the defendant knew nothing about.

B789 said:

You've not missed the consultation. It is on hold for a judicial review on a couple of points.

Regarding your change of address, you must email both the PPC and the lawyers and tell them your new address and for them to ERASE your old one. Hopefully, your new address is out of the UK as you mentioned which will frustrate the scammers claimant to no end as they will have to give up on their claim.

Thanks for prompt reply B789, very helpful...

ReadySteadyMove

Not_A_Hope said:

You should inform Euro Parking Services by email or letter your new address for service and require them to amend their records accordingly and erase your former address. You should also require them to update anyone working on their behalf.

It doesn’t sound as though they have got to LBC / solicitor involvement yet. However far too often PPCs have won a claim in court as a consequence of using (sometimes deliberately) an old address resulting in a default CCJ that the defendant knew nothing about.

Thanks Not_A_Hope, very prompt and very helpful.

ReadySteadyMove

Not_A_Hope said:

You should inform Euro Parking Services by email or letter your new address for service and require them to amend their records accordingly and erase your former address. You should also require them to update anyone working on their behalf.

It doesn’t sound as though they have got to LBC / solicitor involvement yet. However far too often PPCs have won a claim in court as a consequence of using (sometimes deliberately) an old address resulting in a default CCJ that the defendant knew nothing about.

Hi Not_A_Hope, forgot to say the letter from solicitors is a 'Letter Before Claim' which I assume is one of the scare tactics that are used to prompt payment. I've no intention of paying and am very happy to go to (small claims) court to defend the non payment/challenge the parking charge.

Assumed though from what I've read in some of the threads is that appealing the charge through the solicitors (it is one of the options given in the letter) is not something worth engaging in? Best to simply wait til it gets to court is what I've taken from the info I've read - which I realise is only a small portion of what is on the site!?

Thanks to you and to all the fantastic expert advisors on here who help those of us who would otherwise feel completely overwhelmed by all this...

Thanks

Coupon-mad

I bet the LBC does NOT say you can 'appeal'?

You do need to respond to it though, and this is in the NEWBIES thread, as is how to email a SAR with an address rectification.

The public consultation is anticipated this month...so says the BPA in Parking News.  And they also say it's anticipated to be open for 12 weeks, so more people will manage to do it.

Boat_to_Bolivia

OP to clarify, have you moved overseas? If so, is this a permanent move?

ReadySteadyMove

Coupon-mad said:

I bet the LBC does NOT say you can 'appeal'?

You do need to respond to it though, and this is in the NEWBIES thread, as is how to email a SAR with an address rectification.

The public consultation is anticipated this month...so says the BPA in Parking News.  And they also say it's anticipated to be open for 12 weeks, so more people will manage to do it.

Thanks Coupon-mad, checked the LBC now and it doesn't say I can appeal, it says I can dispute the debt which to my 'non clued up on these things YET' reading was the same thing!

Thanks a lot for pointers on where to find the info in the thread.

Will keep an eye out for the public consultation.

Thanks

ReadySteadyMove

Boat_to_Bolivia said:

OP to clarify, have you moved overseas? If so, is this a permanent move?

Hi Boat_to_Bolivia, still in UK for the moment, but no longer in England. May well be moving to EU, but not immediately (waiting for the GBP to Euro rate to improve!)