Do I have an adequate defense for Set Aside WITHOUT conset?

UncleThomasCobley

What did the judge say about costs? Were you awarded your set aside fee or was it reserved for the outcome of the claim hearing?

TerryDown

UncleThomasCobley said:

What did the judge say about costs? Were you awarded your set aside fee or was it reserved for the outcome of the claim hearing?

They didn't say anything until I asked for costs to be reserved. So I'll have to wait until the outcome of the next hearing

Coupon-mad

TerryDown said:

UncleThomasCobley said:

What did the judge say about costs? Were you awarded your set aside fee or was it reserved for the outcome of the claim hearing?

They didn't say anything until I asked for costs to be reserved. So I'll have to wait until the outcome of the next hearing

Well done for remembering. Congrats on the CCJ set aside success too!

That one question likely just earned you the £275 back in the end,  that would otherwise have been lost forever and unclaimable.

We say you SHOULD submit a defence.
Do you have a deadline from the Judge? Or will he order that they have to send you a copy of the claim form?

But equally important...

...there's one more urgent thing to do:

Please please please also find time to do this new Call for Evidence 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 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 Call for Evidence:

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/private-parking-code-of-practice-call-for-evidence#:~:text=The%20call%20for%20evidence%20is,help%20the%20decision%2Dmaking%20process.

About half a million parking claims are now made (2023 likely figure).

The MoJ must 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 it's the first aim of parking legal firms.

These MPs are inviting evidence not rants or opinion so we need people like you to respond, who are currently caught up in this nightmare that you are.

Evidence is paperwork. Upload it with your reply to the Committee.

Explain what is happening to consumers and THIS (parking claims and CCJs) is what is clogging up the CNBC.  This is what must be urgently addressed.

Bulk litigators for parking firms are playing fast and loose with old addresses and causing CCJs galore. Probably hundreds of thousands per year, given half a million parking claims filed and the MoJ stats tell us that 90% of most claims go to a default CCJ.

Ideally, parking cases should NEVER go to county court and should not be able to affect people's credit rating, probably millions of times in recent years.  This is a hidden scandal.

You want to change things?

This Committee is your voice.

As you know, the Government is already regulating the private parking industry, so they are listening and are aware of the scourge of unfair PCNs from rogues and bulk litigators.

Interested parties have until 14 December to make a submission to the committee.

Your evidence about a CCJ nightmare case will make all the difference.