DCB Legal - Letter of Claim - multiple pcn's

KeithP

The CCBC sent you a letter, or will send you a letter, saying the Claimant has twenty eight days to consider your Defence.

What you don't know is when the CCBC sent a copy of your Defence to the Claimant. It follows from that that it is not known when the Claimant has to respond to the CCBC. We also don't know whether the Claimant will respond at all.

Further, we don't know what delays there are in the CCBC that means they don't send you a Directions Questionnaire as promptly as you might like.

And this recent thread indicates that longer delays are likely... CCBC are currently 26 days behind with DQs

Can I suggest that you keep checking your MCOL Claim History and as soon as you see that the CCBC has sent a DQ to you, you are ready to download a DQ, complete it and fire it back at the CCBC, remembering to send a copy to the Claimant of course?

How long is your piece of string? 

Coupon-mad

It arrives by post in about 2 months.

nomoredebt

So my husband has received an email from DCBL informing him that they are proceeding with the claim and have attached the directions questionnaire.  The email also says about contacting them to settle it.  Is this advised or just ignore it and complete the questionnaire.

KeithP

nomoredebt said:

So my husband has received an email from DCBL informing him that they are proceeding with the claim and have attached the directions questionnaire.  The email also says about contacting them to settle it.  Is this advised or just ignore it and complete the questionnaire.

You were expecting that weren't you?

Item 7 on that checklist you were following when you filed a Defence says...

Items 8, 9 and 10 on that list might be worth another read too.

nomoredebt

So my husband has ignored the email from DCBL with the directions questionnaire attach.  He will wait for the posted copy.  

Today he has received another email from DCBL with a settlement figure of £2900 and to reply within 7 days.  

I take it he just ignores this?

Coupon-mad

Yes indeed.

And please read this as if I wrote it for you and your husband:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80160565#Comment_80160565

See you at the end of the month - or in August when the Government's final private parking Code Consultation will be open, we understand.

We need EVERYONE to push the new law over the line.  Friends, family, LOTS of individual angry responses about banning the false added DRA 'fee' add-on...

...and pointing out that the mooted LONDON LEVEL of £130 is completely unjustified in a contract law perspective, especially as that's 30% above the current cap set by the scam industry themselves!

nomoredebt

Just to let you know my husband received another email from DCBL with a settlement offer of £2,500 this time.  He has filed it away with the other.

He still hasn't received the directions questionnaire through the post yet.

patient_dream

nomoredebt said:

Just to let you know my husband received another email from DCBL with a settlement offer of £2,500 this time.  He has filed it away with the other.

He still hasn't received the directions questionnaire through the post yet.

OH BOY ..... a further discount of £400 in 3 weels. If they keep on like this, within a few weeks they will be paying you?

If this does end up in court, you and the judge may care to ask if their statement of truth is actually true ... OR FALSE. Well we all know it's false because of the fake add-ons

Couple this to the fact, that all UKPC claims are rubbish and ridiculous as a Judge said recently and a method to extort money.

Let's see what the next discount will be or will they discontinue this stupidity

nomoredebt

Yesterday my husband finally received the directions questionnaire through the post.  He has filled it in and is going to get it scanned and will email it tomorrow.

Now he has this does this definitely mean it will go to court or is there a chance it could still get pulled?

B789

They can discontinue at any stage. 

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part38

Regarding rule 38.6 (3), you should refer to the following regarding costs if the claimant discontinues:

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part-44-general-rules-about-costs#rule44.9

Whilst DCB Legal is known to throw in the towel when confronted with robustly defended claims, as this is for multiple PCNs and a relatively large sum compared with single PCN claims, they may decide to try it on as there appears to be more "meat on the bone" with this claim.

That still doesn't remove the fact that the intellectually malnourished people at DCB Legal are more reliant on the defendants being low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree, which you are obviously not.