HELP ASAP PLS! County Court Claim - Highview Parking PCN - VC5 not updated - no chance to appeal

bexr100

Love you guys. Thanks again!!!

bexr100

(Image removed by Forum Team) So got this now. Obviously we don't call to discuss settlement and do not fill in their Directions Questionnaire. We wait for court to send the letter and questionnaire right? How do I find the guidance for filling that out when it comes? I just had a look but don't see the post referred to above by coupon mad. Just wondering, if this does go to court, is it likely to be before February? My partner has to go away over Xmas and January. 

Coupon-mad

Unlikely to be before February but why not download a DQ N180 online now, and cross out January and February, plus chunks of weeks later in 2024 when you might be on holiday, at family celebrations, doing exams or away for work, etc.  If in doubt, cross it out.

The guidance is in the NEWBIES thread.

But there is an urgent fightback step now:

Please take a moment to provide your court case evidence to this Justice Committee (we all are):
https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7972/work-of-the-county-court/

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.

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 firms like DCB Legal.  They state in various articles that bulk litigation is their company aim.

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

These generic roboclaims churn through the system, clogging up court time over meritless rip-off PCNs where the POC are boilerplate and lack even the most basic details of the alleged breach (please show your own Claim Form as evidence plus anything else as relevant evidence).

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

bexr100

Hiya - what evidence attachments are you providing here? You must attach documents in order to proceed.

KeithP

bexr100 said:

Hiya - what evidence attachments are you providing here? You must attach documents in order to proceed.

To answer that question you will need to give it some context.

bexr100

I'm refering to the previous request by Coupon Mad about the Justice Comittee case evidence. I'd like to contribute, but I'm not sure what kind of evidence I am supposed to be providing? It seems I need to prove that Parking COmpanies are wasting our time and money....

bexr100

Also - I am now at the N180 stage - I looked through the advice on the newbies/template threads and unsure as to whether to post or email.

On another thread i found this post :

It is all explained in the Newbies/FAQ thread. However, as a reminder, by email to the CCBC (now CNBC) ccbcaq@justice.gov.uk and you must CC in the claimant or their solicitor, if they're using one, and you should also CC in yourself as definitive proof you sent it!

Assuming this is correct, any suggestions as to where to get the correct addresses for High View Parking and DCB Legal? My internet search came up with appeals@groupnexus.co.uk, info@groupnexus.co.uk for High View and collections@dcbltd.com, complaints@dcbltd.com, mail@dcbltd, dco@dcbltd.com, info@dcblegal.co.uk for DCBL.

Is a scanned copy of a handwritten one ok, as I had already filled it out to send off by post.

Thanks again, and let me know what to do about the Justic Comittee evidence as above as deadline is soon.

KeithP

That checklist you were following when you filed a Defence included these words...

Your handwritten version of a completed N180 is ok, but if you want to complete one online have another look at item 8 on that checklist.

bexr100

Ahhh - was scanning for n180 - thank you so much.

Coupon-mad

bexr100 said:

Thanks again, and let me know what to do about the Justice Committee evidence as above as deadline is soon. 

You just answer their questions.  My link told you what to include as your clear points.

As you are at N180 stage you might want to send the Committee a word doc with pics of:

-  the LBC and 'reply form' ANNEX 2 that intrusively demanded info about all your finances to send to an aggressive rogue firm 

-  the Claim form

-   the N180 letter,

and tell the Justice Committee that the pre-action protocol for Debt Claims (that treats you as a debtor) is wholly inappropriate for parking charges from ex-clamper thugs.  That reply form is APPALLING for victims of parking scams.

And that the process for then defending a small claim (and even filling in the N180) is as clear as mud and not easy or straightforward for consumer victims who are scared they will get a CCJ for putting a foot wrong. 

Thus the MoJ and DLUHC must work together to work out a strategy to keep these 'outrageous scam' parking cases out of court once the new statutory Parking Code of Practice comes in this year.

Any answers that push for parking cases to be kept out of court are GOOD answers.