BW LEGAL PARKING FINE

cds1234

Hello! I’ve been trailing through all the bwlegal posts & am looking for some advice. 

I was contacted by bwlegal in October stating that I had an outstanding parking fine from TWO YEARS AGO, that I had no knowledge of. 

I had recently moved house and the parking company had “supposedly” sent numerous letters to my old address that I never obviously received. 

There was no ticket on my car and asked the people at my address and they hadn’t received anything! 

I asked bwlegal for proof of the parking, which shows that I was outside of the lines however when I parked there I wasn’t able to get the baby seat out at all let alone safely without doing so. 

Long story short this is now going to county court & have submitted my partial admittance and requested to pay the original fine which would have been £60 if I had actually received it and would have paid on time, not the now amounting £275. 

I’ve received a letter today from bwlegal “notice of intention to proceed” and giving me options to pay them monthly instead of it going to court. 

Just need some advice as to what to do now?? 

MovingForwards

cds1234 said:

Hello! I’ve been trailing through all the bwlegal posts & am looking for some advice. 

I was contacted by bwlegal in October stating that I had an outstanding parking fine from TWO YEARS AGO, that I had no knowledge of. 

I had recently moved house and the parking company had “supposedly” sent numerous letters to my old address that I never obviously received. 

There was no ticket on my car and asked the people at my address and they hadn’t received anything! 

I asked bwlegal for proof of the parking, which shows that I was outside of the lines however when I parked there I wasn’t able to get the baby seat out at all let alone safely without doing so. 

Long story short this is now going to county court & have submitted my partial admittance and requested to pay the original fine which would have been £60 if I had actually received it and would have paid on time, not the now amounting £275. 

I’ve received a letter today from bwlegal “notice of intention to proceed” and giving me options to pay them monthly instead of it going to court. 

Just need some advice as to what to do now?? 

Read through the pinned posts in the parking section and if you're not sure of the next stages ask in that section:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/categories/parking-tickets-fines-parking

cds1234

Just another question.. they’ve sent through the letter that they supposedly sent to my previous address, but it’s in my married name which I hadn’t notified on my driving licence, what info would NCP have used to get my address? As the only thing that my name was on was my tax 

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cds1234 said:

Just another question.. they’ve sent through the letter that they supposedly sent to my previous address, but it’s in my married name which I hadn’t notified on my driving licence, what info would NCP have used to get my address? As the only thing that my name was on was my tax 

The solicitor did a 'soft trace'. Perfectly OK. They don't go by driving licence at all.

Please could you let this duplicate thread die?  To keep us all sane and to help people better, we have a 'one case one thread' unwritten rule on this forum which actually works in your favour because we keep the context of a case all in one place.

Your thread is here, please post any questions there:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6416413/bw-legal-parking-fine/p1