Parking Eye - County Court Claim for two parking fines

parkpark123

Hi All!

I am looking through the newbies forum and already on my way to finding correct info for this. 

I have two parking fines from Parking Eye for a hospital car park in Jan and Feb 2022. 

I’ve ignored all the letters and now have a county court claim for £245. 

Am I right I need to follow the instructions given here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xvqu3bask5m0zir/money-claim-online-How-to-Acknowledge.pdf?dl=0&copy_to_dropbox=true

to be able to have these parking fines cancelled? 

Many thanks! 

KeithP

Firstly, you don't have a CCJ.
A CCJ is a County Court Judgment.
You appear to have a County Court Claim.
Please edit your thread title, replacing 'CCJ' with 'a County Court Claim'.
That will get you responses more in line with your issue.

What is the Issue Date on your County Court Claim Form?

Oh, although it feels like it, there is no 'fine' involved here.  

parkpark123

Thank you so much KeithP, I will do that right away. Thanks for your reassurance too!

Coupon-mad

What is the Issue Date on your County Court Claim Form?

parkpark123

Thank you Coupon-mad

15th Aug 

KeithP

KeithP said:

What is the Issue Date on your County Court Claim Form?

parkpark123 said:

15th Aug 

With a Claim Issue Date of 15th August, you have until Monday 5th September to file an Acknowledgment of Service but there is nothing to be gained by delaying it. 

To file an Acknowledgment of Service, follow the guidance in the Dropbox file linked from the second post in the NEWBIES thread.

Having filed an Acknowledgment of Service in a timely manner, you have until 4pm on Monday 19th September 2022 to file your Defence.

That's three weeks away. Plenty of time to produce a Defence, but please don't leave it to the last minute.

To create a Defence, and then file a Defence by email, look again at the second post on the NEWBIES thread - immediately following where you found the Acknowledgment of Service instructions.

Don't miss the deadline for filing an Acknowledgment of Service, nor that for filing a Defence.

Do not try and file a Defence via the MoneyClaimOnline website. Once an Acknowledgment of Service has been filed, the MCOL website should be treated as 'read only'.

parkpark123

That’s great, thanks so much. Hopefully I’ll be able to follow this info ok. Once done is that about it pending a reply closing the case from Parkingeye?

Can I please comment back here if I need more help?

Thanks so much again! 

KeithP

parkpark123 said:

Once done is that about it pending a reply closing the case from Parkingeye?

Certainly not.

Suggest you read the second post of the NEWBIES thread - link above - and the template Defence thread before asking any more questions.

Le_Kirk

I doubt you will get anything from ParkingEye closing the case, they have issued a court claim and, having paid a fee, will want it to go to court and get their pound of flesh!  If you do what @KeithP suggests and write paragraphs 2 & 3 from the template defence using your own circumstances (and post ONLY those paragraphs here), then some regulars will be pleased to critique it for you.  Once critiqued you add those paragraphs back into the template and submit by e-mail following the instructions given.

parkpark123

Ok thanks. So a bit more of a challenge but doable?

KeithP

parkpark123 said:

So a bit more of a challenge but doable?

But you already know that - having seen off CEL a few years ago.

However, because this is ParkingEye, you won't be using the Template Defence but instead will be guided by the examples in the second post of the NEWBIES thread following the heading...
What about ParkingEye defences?