CEL claim - stages after CCJ set aside

CliveTreeHorn

Okay as I'm taking AL I will leave it as the standard £95

CliveTreeHorn

Okay so, application, WS, draft order, and exhibits sent in. 

Thank you everyone for all the help. I will keep this page updated.

Coupon-mad

CliveTreeHorn said:

Okay so, application, WS, draft order, and exhibits sent in. 

Thank you everyone for all the help. I will keep this page updated.

Good, but 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, such that some Judges spend all day on an entire list of parking claims.

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) and all this MUST STOP.

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 bulk litigators, and they don't even check addresses properly and appear to deliberately seek CCJs like bombs going off in hundreds of thousands of households every year, when people discover their secret CCJ sneaked in at an old address.

Please show your own evidence, and attach CEL v Chan and say parking claim bulk litigators should be banned from the county court system as vexatious litigants.

These MPs are inviting evidence not rants or opinion so we need people like you to respond, who are currently caught up in a CCJ nightmare and can attach their evidence and ask:

- why can a bulk litigator file a hundred thousand parking claims per annum with zero address checks, at the very minor cost of just £35, and add that plus two lots of costs (£50 fixed legal fee plus the £70 double recovery fake 'fee' that the DLUHC called 'extorting money from motorists') yet the Defendant has to cough up £275 to set this farce aside?

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 will make all the difference.

CliveTreeHorn

Of course, the least I can do after the help you and others have provided. If I can prevent even one other person going through this it would be well worth it!

CliveTreeHorn

How long does it normally take to be contacted to pay the fee for the application?

I ask because I submitted on the 15th and I've heard nothing despite calling in to chase. 

What else can I do?

Coupon-mad

They don't ring you.

Ring the CCBC fees number and pay it now or it will never progress.

CliveTreeHorn

They called me this afternoon and I've paid. 

They said it might not get listed until Feb, due to delays!

Coupon-mad

Yes that is about right.

Mention that delay in your submission to the above Committee - something to do this week whilst it is on your mind and before Black Friday weekend or Xmas dominates thoughts!

CliveTreeHorn

I have started the draft submission, and will include info on this delay.

CliveTreeHorn

Today I received a letter from a debt collection company for the CCJ. If they can find my correct address this surely shows up how poor CEL's search was for me!

Should I take any action? I don't particularly want the company knocking on my door!