DCB LEGAL RECORD OF PRIVATE PARKING COURT CLAIM DISCONTINUATIONS

Umkomaas

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

Umkomaas

UKPC/DCB Legal discontinuation. 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6334027/uk-parking-control-dcb-legal-claim-form-received-for-ticket-from-2018-what-to-do/p4

Username @iamc

Umkomaas

Coupon-mad said:

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. 

Umkomaas

Another UKPC one:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6323828/ukpc-dcb-legal-county-court-claim-for-pcn-from-2017/p2

Username @conabb

Umkomaas

Here's a Highview/DCB Legal one:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/78768366#Comment_78768366

Username @TheOpinionatedBrit

Umkomaas

A 5.5 year old Highview/DCB Legal case that took a landowner intervention to see yet another DCB Legal discontinuation. 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/78289258#Comment_78289258

Username @Gracious2

Umkomaas

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

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/79308280#Comment_79308280

Username @ABK1

patient_dream

Great new thread Umkomaas and already it's found it's way onto google search

Trainerman

@Umkomaas. A big thank you for all this work. Very valuable to all of us, and especially when we come to giving evidence to the consultation

95Rollers

Coupon-mad said:

Umkomaas I'm on my phone but can you screenshot the Parkmaven page in case it's taken down?

I actually have a screenshot and possibly print out of it as I used it as an exhibit in my WS against OPS to prove that DCBLs bolted-on unaccounted fee was an act of pure greed created by a BPA big-wig who happens to own a similar firm to DCBL who OPS also use. I screenshotted and printed it in case they took it down and have shared with others so they can put it in their WS' to evidence the PPC's/DRA's double recovery/ abuse of process practises. 

Sterling work @Umkomaas. 

Umkomaas

Sterling work @Umkomaas. 

Like much here, the impetus came from @Coupon-mad. 

To whom the Great British motorist owes an enormous debt of gratitude, although the majority won't realise until they're entrapped within the spider's web, and even when the forum gets them free of the sticky stuff, I never fail to be disappointed by the many who take what we do for them as their entitlement, but then can't be arsed to provide the results of our efforts to help them with their problem!