N279 Discontinuance DCBL UKPC

JollyDrover

Just 7 days before witness statements were due, I've received the notice of discontinuance from DCBL on behalf of UKPC. 
18 months ago, I was clueless and my wife said just pay. But the injustice of it all drove me here. 
I've read and re-read, copied and pasted, returning often, and gone from having my brown pants on every time I thought about it, to telling DCBL last week when they called to apply more pressure, 'DCBL I've been expecting you...' and some other things, of course, but definitely not being drawn into discussing my case. 
So thank you, for all your hard work, helping all the people like me, and hopefully driving the final nail into the coffin of this abysmal practice. 
Follow the advice, stick to your guns, don't entertain their schoolyard bully tactics, and reason will prevail. 

Coupon-mad

JollyDrover said:

Just 7 days before witness statements were due, I've received the notice of discontinuance from DCBL on behalf of UKPC. 
18 months ago, I was clueless and my wife said just pay. But the injustice of it all drove me here. 
I've read and re-read, copied and pasted, returning often, and gone from having my brown pants on every time I thought about it, to telling DCBL last week when they called to apply more pressure, 'DCBL I've been expecting you...' and some other things, of course, but definitely not being drawn into discussing my case. 
So thank you, for all your hard work, helping all the people like me, and hopefully driving the final nail into the coffin of this abysmal practice. 
Follow the advice, stick to your guns, don't entertain their schoolyard bully tactics, and reason will prevail. 

Yay! Well done!  That's a win.

...calling @Umkomaas to add you to the long list of DCBLegal discontinuances.

One favour please, it win't take long:

Please find time to do this new Justice Committee Inquiry THIS WEEK OR NEXT:

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 draft Impact Assessment.

The MoJ must now be informed to urgently separate parking cases with:

 (a) a new pre-action protocol designed to stop cases getting to court

(b). use of a certificated ADR to resolve cases.

...instead of inflated debt demands and bulk litigators who want court. That should be a last resort but litigation is the first aim of DCB Legal.  They state in various articles that bulk litigation is their company aim.

Tell the Committee about your claim and show the Claim Form to the committee.  Show them the other evidence you have: threatogram letters? and that the claim is a hopeless waste of time, and based on an unfair charge that you would have appealed if there had been an ADR (proper dispute resolution, not court mediation). 

And show them the link to Umkomaas' thread of over 210 discontinuances by DCB Legal in just over a year.

The courts (and consumers) are being used and abused by firms making a mint (and it's not just the parking operators making money from it, the bulk litigators make at least as much if not more).  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, to protect consumers from unfair CCJs and scary claims which are rinsing millions p.a. from the pockets of ordinary motorists and ruining credit ratings.

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

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

Umkomaas

Just added.  

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WELL DONE, your timewasting case is now in the chicken out farm