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DCB LEGAL RECORD OF PRIVATE PARKING COURT CLAIM DISCONTINUATIONS
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doubledotcom said:Umkomaas said:Just an observation from me. This thread does seem to have quietened over the last few weeks. Are DCB Legal running low after scraping the barrel with the main operators and are now having to scratch around for bits and pieces from the low feeders?
Any forum reader, please tag me in on any discontinuance spotted .... and hope my Notifications improve!
The courts must be sick to death of the rubbish claims from DCBL who make themselves look complete idiots
THE MORE WE CAN HIGHLIGHT THE DCBL CRAP, THE BETTER OFF THE MOTORIST WILL BE
SHAME ON THE BPA FOR ALLOWING MEMBERSHIP TO A COURT TIMEWASTER ..... AND THE ROGUE TRADER PARKING COMPANIES THAT USE DCBL
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Civil Enforcement Ltd instructed DCB Legal to chase @RenegadeCharlie some 8 months ago, but DCB Legal will have charged them and made them look real Charlies, as this was going to only end one way once a Defence was submitted. Discontinuance #622
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6565383/cel-dcb-legal-court-claim/p3
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.
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ECP and DCB Legal entered the lion's den when they decided to take on @Daniel_3560 ..... and came out badly mauled. 🦁623
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6565394/claim-form-dcb-legal/p5
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 Street2 -
Small fry BaySentry Parking and DCB Legal run away (predictably) once @meshab gets to grips with their stunts! Discontinuance #624
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6580146/claim-form-issued-by-dcb-legal-for-parking-at-citi-park-clements-road/p5
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 Street2 -
I’ve been following the discussion thread closely, and it’s evident that many of the cases which were ultimately discontinued hinged on the same mitigating circumstances that the motorist have outlined in their original appeal.
Despite this consistency, parking operators routinely reject appeals, repeatedly threaten court action, and recycle the same narrative to debt collectors - only to be ignored. Then they issue a claim, Defendants rely on the identical facts in Paragraph 3 (“facts known to the defendant”), DCBLegal “signal their client’s intent to pursue the matter” , dragging it out unnecessarily. When the time comes to pay the trial fee, they discontinue the claim at the last moment.This repeated pattern of issuing claims without a genuine intention to proceed, only to withdraw when scrutiny is imminent, is what’s known as Grovit abuse.It’s a strategic misuse of the court process used to harass and burden defendants while sidestepping judicial accountability.
If sufficient evidence is collated showing this pattern across multiple cases involving the same claimant, it could form grounds to issue a separate action under the tort of abuse of process, specifically invoking principles established in Grovit v Doctor.Grovit and Others v Doctor and Others [1997] 1 WLR 640 (HL)This House of Lords decision clarified that maintaining proceedings with no genuine intention of pursuing them to conclusion constitutes an abuse of process, even in the absence of proven prejudice. Lord Woolf famously stated:“To commence and to continue litigation which you have no intention to bring to conclusion can amount to an abuse of process.”6 -
Here's another discontinued claim from the Facebook groups. This one is particularly interesting because the Defendant had a mediation call earlier today (29/07) and then received this by email shortly afterwards.
In completely unrelated news, the hearing fee due date was 30/07. Number 625 I believe.
Always remember to abide by Space Corps Directive 39436175880932/B:
'All nations attending the conference are only allocated one parking space.'4 -
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 Street3
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