IAS Annual Activity Report 2020/21

Luccathedog

Hello 

I am in the throes of pulling my county court defence together to a highly opportunistic claim from one of these rodent car park operators and I would like to read the IAS Annual Activity Report but the link to such on the IAS' website is broken.  Does anyone have a copy or know where I can get my hands on it?  I have dropped IAS an email but I assume that they will not be helpful.

Thanks

Coupon-mad

Nope - and we don't want it restored please so don't raise an issue re that broken link.  Let it stay broken please.  There are good reasons.

Please don't follow up that email.

You don't need that Report.

Please show a copy of your Claim Form with the claim number and the MCOL password covered up as well as your name, address and VRM.

Luccathedog

I want to see the report so I can verify that the appeal success rate is a woeful 4% as stated in the helpful Defence template.  I would not feel comfortable referencing, if true, a telling statistic in my Defence unless I have read it from the primary source. 

Coupon-mad

State you 'have been advised that...'.

Believe me (and regulars can vouch for this) it was 6% then 4% then 5% in the 3 years they could be bothered to publish an Activity Report.  Averaged 5%.

I don't want them reminded to reinstate the link because they are about to be replaced by the statutory Government 'single appeals service' in 2024, and behind the scenes, I'm pushing this aspect...

The last thing we need is the IAS cleaning up broken links and looking slightly better than useless as an ADR.

Luccathedog

Thanks.  I get all of that but I would prefer to see it myself rather than have to admit to a judge, if questioned, that some anonymous person on an Internet forum said it was such and such.  I trust you see my point.  The thing is whilst absolutely not a litigator, nor in private practice, I am a solicitor and will be held to higher standards than a non-legally qualified litigant in person, and I need to be satisfied that I can stand behind everything I state, in marked contrast to the way the claimant rolls I have no doubt.  

If anyone can send me a copy of the IAS Activity Report I would be most grateful.  Figures of 4-6% appeal success rates powerfully illustrate that it is far from an independent, competent ADR authority (and I expect the IAS broken link is by design rather than accident btw).   Also, there are 2 chances of them supplying me with it: slim and nil. That is why I have taken the trouble to register on the MSE Forum and post for the first time.

It's only a small part of the story but a nice Segway to the successor Govt Single Appeals Service to which you refer.  

UncleThomasCobley

Whilst you my raise the point in your defence, it is almost certainly guaranteed that it will not be considered. Which PPC and which legals?

Luccathedog

Vehicle Control Services Ltd and ELMS Legal Ltd.  It is part of a picture I am painting as to the general lack of fairness that pertains to this "industry" and an unfairness, bad faith even, which ELMS Legal indulge as part of their MO. I have just reported the latter's principal (as a fellow regulated solicitor) to the SRA and ELMS Legal Ltd (of which said principal is the sole director and owner) to CILEx Regulation. Now that might not matter a jot to the judge (which I would like to think is unlikely) but I think it is relevant and will also be making reference to that. Demonstrable lying, exaggeration, refusal to listen and general obfuscation to intimidate people into meeting their unreasonable and increasingly demands is something in which a judge should be very interested. 

And don't forget, the kangaroo appeals service and PPC's own processes are deaf to reason and so forces recipients of PCNs to stressfully await eventual court proceedings to finally get a (their first) opportunity for fair and objective scrutiny of the claim against them, ie for their Defence to be heard (for the first time).  Many of course just pay to make it go away, sadly but understandably.

Luccathedog

Word missing: increasingly "costly" demands.  I'm guessing you can't edit posts once posted...

Umkomaas

I'm guessing you can't edit posts once posted...

You can, once you've been here a little while and have a number of posts to your name - the actual volumes are unknown (a guarded MSE admin secret perhaps?), but you're probably looking at 2-3 weeks and around 15-20 posts. 

UncleThomasCobley

Luccathedog said:

Vehicle Control Services Ltd and ELMS Legal Ltd.  It is part of a picture I am painting as to the general lack of fairness that pertains to this "industry" and an unfairness, bad faith even, which ELMS Legal indulge as part of their MO. I have just reported the latter's principal (as a fellow regulated solicitor) to the SRA and ELMS Legal Ltd (of which said principal is the sole director and owner) to CILEx Regulation. Now that might not matter a jot to the judge (which I would like to think is unlikely) but I think it is relevant and will also be making reference to that. Demonstrable lying, exaggeration, refusal to listen and general obfuscation to intimidate people into meeting their unreasonable and increasingly demands is something in which a judge should be very interested. 

And don't forget, the kangaroo appeals service and PPC's own processes are deaf to reason and so forces recipients of PCNs to stressfully await eventual court proceedings to finally get a (their first) opportunity for fair and objective scrutiny of the claim against them, ie for their Defence to be heard (for the first time).  Many of course just pay to make it go away, sadly but understandably.

Welcome to the club. We have been used to the inherent unfairness of the current system which has been named in parliament as a "failure". @Coupon-mad is on the steering committee for the DLUHC which is introducing the Private Parking Code of Practice which is due to be introduced some time next year. This will replace both the BPA and the odious IPCs flawed appeals service.

I am glad to hear that you have lodged complaints to the SRA and CILEx. From speaking with solicitor friends and both a family member who is a district judge and another who has just been appointed as a Crown Court judge, I have been told that the SRA are pretty useless unless the complaint involves large financial irregularities. Hopefully, with your own experience and eduction, you can prompt them into taking action that is more than a fob off.

I think many of us would be keen to read any follow up you care to provide.

Coupon-mad

Yes please stick around. Really interesting fightback which we support wholeheartedly. We would love to hear your outcome on this thread in 2024, even if it takes a year to reach a hearing.

I bet that none of us have kept copies of the IAS Activity Reports but I reckon you can get them from the CTSI, because astonishingly the IAS is a CTSI approved ADR which is why they have to provide Annual Activity Reports (no laughing at the back but we haven't seen one since 2021...!).