Need Urgent help Please – received a letter from DCBL dated 30/04/2024 received 07/05/2024 – CCJ

Stressed_Out_VG

I have tried to read some of the completed CCJ set-aside cases.  From what I can understand:

I need a Skeleton Argument and a Schedule of costs.  Does this get submitted to the County Court before the hearing takes place?

Will I then also send Parking Eye Ltd the Skeleton Argument and Schedule of costs along with all the information I emailed the CNBC when I submitted my N244?

Do I need to take copies of anything to the hearing and if so how many copies?

Please I just want make sure I have everything I need and don't want to miss anything.  I am super nervous about going to court and this has been going on since last year May and has caused me no amounts of unneccesary stress.

Coupon-mad

So you have already put in a WS and N244 and a Draft Order in 2024?

Is this the first hearing about setting aside the CCJ? If so, that's been a long wait, and I feel for you.

And remind us: the claim was brought by DCB Legal for PEye, or was it PEye themselves who filed the claim form?

Sent to an old address?

Stressed_Out_VG

Coupon-mad said:

So you have already out in a WS and N244 and a Draft Order in 2024?

Is this the first hearing about setting aside the CCJ? If so, that's been a long wait, and I feel for you.

And remind us: the claim was brought by DCB Legal for PEye, or was it PEye themselves who filed the claim form?

Sent to an old address?

@Coupon-mad - yes this is the first hearing about setting aside. Parking Eye Ltd are the claimant and DCBL is collecting the Debt on behalf of them. PE Ltd filed the claim themselves.  The first I knew that I had a CCJ against my name was when I received a letter on 7th May from DCBL to say I had an unpaid CCJ and they had been instructed to collect the debt on behalf of their Client (PE Ltd).  A claim had already been issued against me for the outstanding balance and the court had found in favour of PE Ltd.  It has been a really long and frustrating process with CNBC. All correspondence from PE Ltd went to an old address. 

On 02/07/24 I submitted the following to CNBC:

N244 Application

Draft Order

Witness Statement and all documents that I referred to in my WS.

On 22/08/24 I rang CNBC as I had not heard anything. They said they had received my payment on 01/07/24 but had not received my email and to forward the original email with proof of the automated response I received. 

On 04/10/24 I rang CNBC again and they told same as above and to include both automated responses I had received.

On 22/11/24 I rang CNBC again and told me to resubmit for a third time along with all the automated responses and they were going to escalate this to a manager.

10/01/25 I once again rang CNBC only to be told again to resubmit everything and the automated responses and now they were only going to get this reported to a manager.

13/01/25 Someone finally emailed me and asked that I submit everything to them. I chased them up on 27/01/25 and today the letter for Notice of Hearing of Application arrived to say I have a 30 minute hearing at my local county court

Coupon-mad

But the amount of money suggests this might actually have been a DCB Legal claim. Are you sure PEye filed it in-house?

Seems slightly high for a PEye in-house claim:

"we moved out of the previous address at the end of November 2023 and I updated my V5 document with the DVLA on 1st December 2023. All the lady said was I could make monthly payments to pay off the £267."

FC or KF at the start of the claim number?

You will need to add the VCS v Carr (Court of Appeal) finding transcript which is new in 2024 and supports your case as a mandatory set aside (leaving the Judge no discretion to refuse your application).

Stressed_Out_VG

Coupon-mad said:

But the amount of money suggests this might actually have been a DCB Legal claim. Are you sure PEye filed it in-house?

Seems slightly high for a PEye in-house claim:

"we moved out of the previous address at the end of November 2023 and I updated my V5 document with the DVLA on 1st December 2023. All the lady said was I could make monthly payments to pay off the £267."

FC or KF at the start of the claim number?

You will need to add the VCS v Carr (Court of Appeal) finding transcript which is new in 2024 and supports your case as a mandatory set aside (leaving the Judge no discretion to refuse your application).

@Coupon-mad According to CNBC when I asked for the "Particulars of Claim" they said the total claim was £197, so I assume DCBL added their own cost on top of that to chase this on behalf of PE Ltd.

Claim number starts with a L

Claimant solicitor: PARKING EYE LTD (info on the Particulars of Claim Email)

Is this the VCS v Carr (Court of Appeal) you are refering to?

Coupon-mad

Yes that's the VCS v Carr case.

I wasn't asking about DCBL, I asked if DCB Legal (a different Ltd Company) filed the claim.

You said no but I suspect they did. Sorry, bad question by me so I'll re-phrase it:

FC or KF within the claim number?

Stressed_Out_VG

Coupon-mad said:

Yes that's the VCS v Carr case.

I wasn't asking about DCBL, I asked if DCB Legal (a different Ltd Company) filed the claim.

You said no but I suspect they did. Sorry, bad question by me so I'll re-phrase it:

FC or KF within the claim number?

@Coupon-mad Sorry for the misunderstanding.  There is a FC in the claim number

Coupon-mad

Ah I stand corrected. Sorry!

FC is definitively a ParkingEye in-house claim (but the sum of money seems too high, even allowing for the default judgment fee).

How can the POC have added up to £197? Show us a photo.

Stressed_Out_VG

I think parking charge was orginally £70 but because they kept sending all the letters to my old address and got no response they took it to County Court which then it went up to £197 and then DCBL took over and it went up to £267

Coupon-mad

It is impossible to have gone up from the £197 default judgment sum.

IMHO there is no sum of money that DCB could have added over this probable CCJ breakdown:

PCN £70?

Added fake admin fee £20

Court filing fee £35

ParkingEye (in house) capped legal fee £50

Default judgment fee £22



No interest was pleaded so that doesn't explain the added £70 which DCB have taken it upon themselves to add as an excessive reward for (they hope) rinsing the money from you EVEN THOUGH PEye had already added their invented (new since 2024 only) random admin fee of £25.

Because I'm saying DCB Group have added £70 for no valid reason, I want to show this to the CJC and to the MHCLG.

This case demonstrates £95 was added!

Please show a redacted pic of the DCB first demand letter which stated the sum as £267.