UKPC PCN at local retail park.

Coupon-mad

Yes and copy in UKPC (if they filed the claim in-house rather than via a solicitor?).

Puppydogdreemz

Hi, would like your thoughts on the likelyhood of this actually going to court and not being discontinued? My wife is increasingly unsettled about going to a hearing and its affecting her mental health, to the point she has been signed off work with anxiety. i'm seriously considering just paying the bloody thing and having done with it, for all that I don't want the b***ards to win, its not worth the grief. With regards to a timeline  - considering that the case has been allocated to the local court with a date about 12 days away - is it still possible to just pay it and avoid court? or is that inevitable now and we'll just have to do it?

KeithP

Have you seen this video?...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n93eoaxhzpU

Just three or four people sitting round a table having a discussion.

Puppydogdreemz

@KeithP thanks for the reply, I appreciate your help with this and everyone else who has contributed. At the moment my wife is struggling to leave the house, let alone potentially taking more time off work when she does go back, so a hearing -albeit just a meeting in a room- might be a step too far.
If it were just me doing this, I'd take a punt and go to court but ultimately its her decision. At what point can you still pay the charge and not go to court or is it too late for that? 

KeithP

Puppydogdreemz said:

At what point can you still pay the charge and not go to court or is it too late for that? 

At any point before actually sitting down in front of the Judge.

Coupon-mad

Go with her as lay rep. You speak instead of your wife. It is far less scary than people imagine.  Which court?

Puppydogdreemz

Exeter. And I always was going to speak for her as a lay rep, but I won't insist that she goes just to prove a point if its going to be detrimental to her mental wellbeing.  In my head, there is a 50/50 chance of winning at best - she did park incorrectly - albeit only for a few minutes in a "one hour free parking" scenario in the retail park. Its just bloody bad timing that this has happened now, after going through all the rigmarole of completing the aos and dq's, witness statement etc, and also that these moneygrabbing scrotes are gonna scalp us for ~250 quid for parking over the white lines for 10 minutes. Obviously going to hold out for as long as poss just in case they do discontinue, but seems a bit futile really.

Coupon-mad

You can't lay rep without her. This isn't futile. Attend together, win the case or see the sum reduced, and grow from it.  These things in life make people stronger.