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Coupon-mad

Please find time to do this new Justice Committee Inquiry this month:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80375249/#Comment_80375249

The Committee invites evidence on:

• What the current level of delay in the County Court is

• The ways in which the County Court engages with litigants in person, and how this could be improved

• The causes of action giving rise to claims in the County Court

• What future reforms to the County Court should be considered.

Please also state that private parking firms and their bulk litigators are the main problem as far as small claims delays are concerned, as the dominate and clog up court lists.

Please tell them that private parking firms and their bulk litigators are the problem as far as small claims delays are concerned, as they dominate court lists. Parking claim numbers are rising every year and will make up about a third of all small claims in 2023, based on the 2022 figures that the MoJ divulged in the DLUHC's recent Parking Code of Practice draft Impact Assessment.

The MoJ must now be informed to urgently separate parking cases with a new pre-action protocol (requiring use of ADR instead of inflated debt demands and bulk litigators who want court). It should be a last resort but litigation is the first aim of DCB Legal.  They state in various articles that bulk litigation is their company aim.

Tell the Committee about your claim and show the Claim Form to the committee.

Show them the other evidence you have: threatogram letters? and that the claim is a hopeless waste of time, and based on an unfair charge that you would have appealed if there had been an ADR. 

And show them the link to Umkomaas' thread of over 200 discontinuances by DCB Legal in just over a year.

The whole system is a nasty joke and the courts (and consumers) are being used and abused by firms making a mint (and it's not just the parking operators).  This is a hidden (unknown to many people) scandal affecting hundreds of thousands of people every year.

Please tell the Committee that the private parking legislative framework needs to be removed from the county court altogether.  To protect consumers from unfair CCJs like this, which are rinsing millions p.a. from the pockets of ordinary motorists and ruining credit ratings.

Ideally, parking cases should NEVER go to county court and should not be able to affect people's credit rating.  Please add your voice.

Interested parties have until 17 January  to make a submission to the committee.

patient_dream

Sea_Turtle said:

Hi all,

Just to let you know I had my court date set which was meant to be in about two weeks time and, this morning I have received an email from DCB Legal to say they are discontinuing and they have notified the court also. I am going to ring tomorrow to check as they did have until the 24th to pay the fee.

I cannot thank you all enough for your help and support here and in the newbies and various other threads - they have been so useful and I wouldn't have been able or, had the confidence to continue on without you.

Thanks again!! 

WELL DONE

DCBL .... sadly  a so called legal who takes on rubbish claims, they have proven to be be JUNK...... Timewasters who just love wasting their money and that of their clients

DCBL maes the SRA look like a joke

a_sqqq

I too just received a letter of discontinuance for a court date set for 6th December 2023. All thanks to the advice and guidance on the MoneySavingExpert forums/discussions. Will add my defence and subsequent letter of discontinuance as evidence for the parliamentary committee hearing.
 

Coupon-mad

a_sqqq said:

I too just received a letter of discontinuance for a court date set for 6th December 2023. All thanks to the advice and guidance on the MoneySavingExpert forums/discussions. Will add my defence and subsequent letter of discontinuance as evidence for the parliamentary committee hearing.

Very happy you won, and that you are prepared to do this Inquiry as well.  All good!

TeeJay27

a_sqqq said:

I too just received a letter of discontinuance for a court date set for 6th December 2023. All thanks to the advice and guidance on the MoneySavingExpert forums/discussions. Will add my defence and subsequent letter of discontinuance as evidence for the parliamentary committee hearing.
 

What date did you recover your discontinuance letter? My hearing date is the 23rd (13 days away) and I have not yet received one. I’m terrified that they’ve chosen to proceed to court with it 😭

Coupon-mad

See my reply here and my pm:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/80522624/#Comment_80522624