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Claim Form | Gladstones | Premier Park Ltd - assistance required

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  • AxelMoney
    AxelMoney Posts: 73 Forumite
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    edited 5 August 2024 at 7:00PM

    Appreciate the assistance from all forum contributors up to this point.

    Counting down the days before the hearing, and not feeling particularly confident in my ability to be an advocate in court. Fearing being chewed-up by the opposing solicitor as I have no legal background.

    The prep has been to read the defence & w/s a few times.  Then hoping the judge will ask me something I have been able to commit to memory.

    How are proceedings conducted?

  • KeithP
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    edited 5 August 2024 at 7:10PM
    AxelMoney said:

    How are proceedings conducted?

    I am not going to search back through your lengthy thread - ~120 posts in just over a month - but have you seen the video I often post about?

    To find it, search video with my username.
  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 5 August 2024 at 7:10PM
    Surely the video is in the Hearing tips section of the NEWBIES thread? 
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  • KeithP
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    Surely the video is in the Hearing tips section of the NEWBIES thread? 
    Is it? Searching the NEWBIES thread (ctrl+F) with video or tips doesn't find it.   ;)
  • Coupon-mad
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    No idea. Thought it was!
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  • AxelMoney
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    Thanks, the short youtube clip does allay some of the anxiety.  Like the actual hearing being held in the chambers rather than an open court.

    The hearing is on Tuesday.  In the meantime Gladstone have sent through their bundle rather than the discontinuance I was hoping for.  That suggests they weren’t deterred by the witness statement they received.

    Just read another Gladstone forum thread where they didn’t show for the hearing and hope for the same.


  • Coupon-mad
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    Was their WS late?  Tell the Judge if so, ask for it to be dismissed.
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  • Gr1pr
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    edited 11 August 2024 at 12:59PM
    AxelMoney said:

    Thanks, the short youtube clip does allay some of the anxiety.  Like the actual hearing being held in the chambers rather than an open court.

    The hearing is on Tuesday.  In the meantime Gladstone have sent through their bundle rather than the discontinuance I was hoping for.  That suggests they weren’t deterred by the witness statement they received.

    Just read another Gladstone forum thread where they didn’t show for the hearing and hope for the same.


    Gladstones never turn up, but that isn't relevant, they just do the paperwork etc, but no actual physical involvement , paperwork and preparing bundles is their everyday jo.  The parking company decide if a Discontinuance is required, or the go ahead, the client decides to go forward or not, so they do what their client decides, as contractors for the client

    The claimant parking company usually send a freelance jobbing advocate to represent them, so always assume that the Claimant will be represented, unless you find out that they haven't 
  • No their WS was on time.  They sent a follow-up consolidated bundle of all correspondence in the matter.  They seem organised.   
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