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DCB LEGAL RECORD OF PRIVATE PARKING COURT CLAIM DISCONTINUATIONS

A UKPC/DCB Legal pattern is now emerging, the same as the Highview/CP Plus/GroupNexus/DCB Legal pattern that has evidenced itself over the past few weeks.
  • Court claim issued
  • Defence completed
  • Hearing date given
  • Witness Statement deadline dictated by the court
  • Phone call from DCB Legal to defendant
  • Email to defendant from DCB Legal with 'Without Prejudice Offer to Settle'
  • If no response from/refusal by defendant, email from DCB Legal - 'Notification of Discontinuation' 
  • Confirmation of discontinuation from the court follows
Common denominator - DCB Legal!

This thread is set up following the suggestion by @Coupon mad in the following post from a recent case:

@Coupon-mad said:

This is worth gathering multiple examples of on one thread with links, if anyone has time.

We could then use the thread in our replies to the Public Consultation, to show that adding £70 per PCN is nothing to do with ensuring that parking charges are 'enforceable' and all about funding a robo-claim model where DCBLegal have demonstrated no intention of proceeding to a court hearing to 'enforce' the parking charge.

It's all about funding a gaslighting model, calculated to 'pick off' scared victims along the road, abusing the court process and routinely giving up when Defendants don't blink.  HM Court Service and Defendants alike are just dropped at the last minute and left to suck up wasted time and costs and the whole farce starts again, and again.

Those (majority) who are so scared that they pay £170 either at LBC demand stage or later, directly fund this unnecessary model. It has to stop. Parking firms could easily file small claims on MCOL themselves, using template wording as ParkingEye do, never adding any false sum.
I'll start the ball rolling with a link to the latest example in the follow-on post - but everyone coming across similar discontinuations please feel free to add as and when they are spotted. 

As I get time I'll do some back-searching and add further, older examples.  Anyone else wanting to help on that front, you're very welcome. A forum team effort to drive home the message to the DLUHC, that there is no justification for any add-on charges, the brainchild of one G Osner ...... for posterity:
I created the model of ‘admin fees’ for debt recovery because ticket value was so low that nobody would make any money. Parking is business and business is about money, after all. 
https://parkmaven.com/news/gary-osner-zzps-interview
Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

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  • Umkomaas
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    edited 6 August 2022 at 5:25PM
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 5 August 2022 at 4:12PM
    Umkomaas I'm on my phone but can you screenshot the Parkmaven page in case it's taken down?
    PRIVATE 'PCN'? DON'T PAY BUT DON'T IGNORE IT (except N.Ireland).
    CLICK at the top of this/any page where it says:
    Forum Home»Motoring»Parking Tickets Fines & Parking - read the NEWBIES THREAD
  • Umkomaas
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    Umkomaas I'm on my phone but can you screenshot the Parkmaven page in case it's taken down?
    All done - saved to my iBooks and photo images of the whole interview gathered. 
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Umkomaas
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    edited 6 August 2022 at 5:26PM
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Umkomaas
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    edited 6 August 2022 at 5:28PM
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Umkomaas
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    edited 6 August 2022 at 5:29PM
    A 5.5 year old Highview/DCB Legal case that took a landowner intervention to see yet another DCB Legal discontinuation. 

    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
  • Umkomaas
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    edited 6 August 2022 at 5:30PM

    A £291 Highview/DCB Legal claim discontinuation after putting yet another Defendant through the wringer. 

    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

    Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

    Private Parking Firms - Killing the High Street
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