County court claim from DCB legal

Meatymonster

Hello I have a claim form from the county court business centre. It contain 3 parking charges for my vehicle of which i have no prior knowledge and have not contacted this company prior. 1 was in a key fob access car park to a flat we own where we had a visitors voucher. The other 2 are retail car parks with no info given. There is nothing else attached and they date from 2020 and 2021. Could someone please point me to some help to mount a defence? 

B789

Please go and read the Newbies/FAQ thread, second post in particular. You MUST keep referring back to that thread as a reference every time you have a question.

What is the "issue date" on your claim? You should also look at the Template defence thread and note the 12 point checklist in that thread.

As this is DCB Legal, you should use the Johny86 template defence which has extra points to cover the woefully sparse and confusing PoC in Yasmin Mia's statement of truth (not). An example of that defence is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5r7vbqttho3q948/2023 defence.pdf?dl=0

Advice on how to submit your AoS and defence are provided in the Newbies?FAQ thread as advised above. Once you give us the "issue date" of the claim, @KeithP will be along to advise on deadlines.

Coupon-mad

Dead easy and there will be no hearing! 

KeithP

Meatymonster said:

Could someone please point me to some help to mount a defence? 

Yes, I will do that when you tell us the Issue Date on your Claim Form.

1505grandad

Also confirm who the claimant is.

Meatymonster

UK Parking Control Ltd
20th April 2023

KeithP

Meatymonster said:

20th April 2023

I am going to assume that date is the Claim Issue Date.

With a Claim Issue Date of 20th April, you have until Tuesday 9th May 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 Tuesday 23rd May 2023 to file your Defence.

That's nearly four 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 guidance.

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'.

patient_dream

Follow what Keith says above, Coupon-mad and B789 are right

Regarding the residential issue, you have a key fob. that is proof enough you are allowed to park.

The other two, well UKPC signs are crap, they are unreadable and easily beaten

DCBL are well known for taking on rubbish UKPC cases and even better known as the discontinuation SO CALLED LEGAL

This is now a game with a legal who clearly don'r have a clue what they are doing and just waste the courts time

DCB LEGAL RECORD OF PRIVATE PARKING COURT CLAIM DISCONTINUATIONS

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6377263/dcb-legal-record-of-private-parking-court-claim-discontinuations/p1

Umkomaas

It contain 3 parking charges for my vehicle of which i have no prior knowledge and have not contacted this company prior. 

Send a SAR to UKPC to obtain copies of previous correspondence. There is a template linked in the NEWBIES FAQ Announcement, second post, for you to use. Don't delay defending your claim awaiting return of SAR - info from it will be more useful later in the process at the Witness Statement stage.  

Sounds like you changed address and didn't update your V5C (logbook) with the DVLA?  If so, you need to get that done soonest (can be done online) - £1,000 fine potentially. 

Meatymonster

Update: I used the other thread to file my defence and also focused on the issue of the info on their court application being inadequate. It did go to court and I am happy to say I won! They attended but I didn't. 

"the claim is struck out for reason of being insufficiently particularised contrary to Practise direction 16 parapgraph 7.5"

Thank you all for your help!

Coupon-mad

Meatymonster said:

Update: I used the other thread to file my defence and also focused on the issue of the info on their court application being inadequate. It did go to court and I am happy to say I won! They attended but I didn't. 

"the claim is struck out for reason of being insufficiently particularised contrary to Practise direction 16 parapgraph 7.5"

Thank you all for your help!

Woohoo that's a great update!  You didn't even appear for the hearing - their rep did -  but you still won!  

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

  

Which court? Please show the judgment (cover your name) because we'd like to add it to the other ones we have that struck out claims for the same reason.  We are collecting images to help other posters achieve the same.