ECP via DCB Legal, issue date 10th April 2025

Gmonkey

this seems an absolute monster of a reply.....have i got this right? It may not even fit on the Acknowledgement of Service defence section. 

Car1980

Do not use MCOL to file your defence.
Save it as a PDF and email it.

All instructions are in the stickie.

Gmonkey

This is now at mediation. The court have emailed me for the appointment. I will update you after August. 

Gmonkey

I contacted the court and emailed them my defence. That was a big help. DCB have called me a few times to try and get me to agree a high settle. I have countered with a verbal offer of £20 for the cost of the letters they have sent me. I had to print and send mediation forms to the Court, DCB legal and euro car parks. That cost £15 in 'sign for' postal costs. Im amazed its got this far. Mediation seems a bit pointless now because the lawyers will need a minimum to justify their fees. Im actually looking forward to court. I have proof of every claim i have made. Will let you know the outcome

Gr1pr

There was no need to print and post, email was sufficient 

The mediation stage is just about both sides trying to agree a settlement figure   ( or not  ) you start at zero,  unless you really want to try £10, then £20 , the other side will start high, like all haggling cases

If you fail to reach an agreement,  or Don't want to,  the case will continue in the usual manner 

However, Its unlikely to see a courtroom 

Coupon-mad

Gmonkey said:

I contacted the court and emailed them my defence. That was a big help. DCB have called me a few times to try and get me to agree a high settle. I have countered with a verbal offer of £20 for the cost of the letters they have sent me.

I had to print and send mediation forms to the Court, DCB legal and euro car parks. That cost £15 in 'sign for' postal costs. 

You did what? You won't get that money back. Why on earth did you send forms at all, let alone by signed-for post?

Defending costs nothing. We walk you through it but you've gone waaay off piste doing things on your own, using snail nail (and sending things direct to ECP who you aren't even dealing with).

I don't understand why you aren't continuing to follow the 8 steps in the Template Defence first post? Please get back on track and stop wasting money. Read up about why your Mediation call should take three minutes flat...don't go discussing your defence with a clueless go-between.

Le_Kirk

Gmonkey said:

I contacted the court and emailed them my defence. That was a big help. DCB have called me a few times to try and get me to agree a high settle. I have countered with a verbal offer of £20 for the cost of the letters they have sent me. I had to print and send mediation forms to the Court, DCB legal and euro car parks. That cost £15 in 'sign for' postal costs. Im amazed its got this far. Mediation seems a bit pointless now because the lawyers will need a minimum to justify their fees. Im actually looking forward to court. I have proof of every claim i have made. Will let you know the outcome

The court (which court) would already have your defence, who told you to send it again?

Gmonkey

I was told BY THE COURT to send my mediation forms to the court, DCB and Euro car parks. Not my defence. My mediation confirmation form. I thought it best to comply with a court request. I decided to send it signed for delivery on my own. I paid 15 quid to do this. 

Gmonkey

Le_Kirk said:

Gmonkey said:

I contacted the court and emailed them my defence. That was a big help. DCB have called me a few times to try and get me to agree a high settle. I have countered with a verbal offer of £20 for the cost of the letters they have sent me. I had to print and send mediation forms to the Court, DCB legal and euro car parks. That cost £15 in 'sign for' postal costs. Im amazed its got this far. Mediation seems a bit pointless now because the lawyers will need a minimum to justify their fees. Im actually looking forward to court. I have proof of every claim i have made. Will let you know the outcome

The court (which court) would already have your defence, who told you to send it again?

The court told me to send my mediation forms not the defence. 

Gr1pr

There is no allocated court at the moment,  just the CNBC in Northampton,  a government business centre 

The CNBC would have sent you an N180 to fill in, so you then download the N180 DQ document from the government website,  fill it in and email with it attached to the parties,  typically one email with 2 destinations, the DQ email address in the 8 steps and CC DCB Legal as well, all for free,  nothing to pay at all

The mediation service contact you and DCB Legal about the mediation stage, not the CNBC and not a court either 

Eventually your local civil court will write to you,  after they receive the case paperwork