BWLegal - NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PROCEED

TheBlessed

Coupon-mad said:

Just ignore the letters about settlement.

You were also not entitled to the VRM list as part of a SAR because the VRM list is not your personal data.

The Claimants will show the VRM list when you both have to exchange Witness Statements (a few weeks before the hearing, unless the Notice of Allocation you got states a date sooner).

In the meantime, while it's on your mind:

Please find time to do this Justice Committee Inquiry within the next ten days:

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 cause of delays as far as small claims are concerned..

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.

Tell the Committee about your claim and show the Claim Form and about the delay so far and the lack of evidence from the Claimant, who made no real attempt to narrow the issues and resolve the dispute out of court.

This treatment of motorists should be illegal.

The 'debt claims pre-action protocol' is not fit for purpose for these cases.  Please strongly OBJECT to this and ask the Committee to insist on a proper ADR and 'private parking protocol' to resolve disputes and expose the worst scam PCNs out of court.

Please add your voice; just answer the questions in your own words but making the points above.  You might want to also say the court communications are in legalese and unsuited to average consumer defendants who have not made an active choice to face litigation, but are treated as cash-cow victims by the out of control parking industry.

"This inquiry is currently accepting evidence

The committee wants to hear your views. We welcome submissions from anyone with answers to the questions in the call for evidence.

You have until Wednesday 17 January 2024  to make a submission to the committee."

Thank you for your prompt response @Coupon-mad

I will make the submission to the Committee yo add my voice.

In the interim, while I wait for the court date, what do you suggest I do to make sure I am prepared. 

Coupon-mad

I think just read other claim threads once or twice a week, to see what we see.  We know what happens because we see it daily.

Harvez63

There will be plenty more fun and games to come, and stupid letters, right from letters stating how confident they are to offering discounts to settle out of court.

BWL are no different to the Nigerian prince who keeps emailing me about his billions he wants to give me. BWL are just using the UK justice system to scare and pressure you. A quick phone call to them you'd understand these cretins. DO NOT think of them as reasonable business persons in suits, they are cons, in a well practice scam run automatically for years on end. 

Exactly the same scam, same letters, same process they use on repeat.

My piece of advice to you as well would be; if you get all the way down to a court date, check in daily with the appointed court starting from a week in advance, to make sure BWL haven't cancelled the hearing. They are really that petulant that they think after years of agro from them, the idea of you getting dressed and attending a court hearing that doesn't exist, makes them happy.  

With me they went from saying it's an air tight case, to further letters stating their confidence, to offering a discount, to discontinuing the case, all in two weeks. Of course they never told me it was discontinued but I saw they'd done this on other peoples post so checked phone the court myself.

Good luck with your case, you'll get the help you'll need on here