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GodEmperorBozza

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GodEmperorBozza

DCB Legal have completed the N180 form and sent across. I have not received any emails from the CNBC inviting me to fill out the form. I note from the newbies thread that these often come 2-3 months after filing the defence - do I just wait until I hear, or is there any merit in just getting the form squared away right now and off my plate? 

Gr1pr

You should be checking your MCOL claim history and see if or when the CNBC in Northampton have posted ( not emailed. ) you a copy of your vanilla N180 form, Which is included in the 12 steps.  When the CNBC are processing your claim reference, is when they mark it as posted, at which point you can email your own pdf back to the new DQ email address 

You file away the one from the lawyers, untouched 

So check, sit, wait,

Coupon-mad

Bear in mind if the claim date was late May or later, the new N180 (which DCB have not used...) makes mediation compulsory.

Search the forum. Read up on it.

GodEmperorBozza

Thanks both. I will keep an eagle eye on the MCOL site for any updates. 

Yes have read about the mediation change. Presumably does not alter the likelihood of DCB dropping it at the 11th hour as they usually do! 

Having reviewed the N180 that DCB sent to me by copy, the version they are using is dated 05.2024 and section A does not have a tickbox option - i.e. compulsory mediation will apply.

GodEmperorBozza

Sitrep - DQ has arrived on my doormat. Currently filling out form and will send to CNBC later today. 

GodEmperorBozza

Sent.
As an FYI, I conjoined a couple of responses I found on the forum to the D1 response to produce the following which  fits in the form's text box and might be of use to other people in future:

"The defendant is not content for the case to be heard 'on the papers' because that disproportionately gives an advantage to a legally represented party, and feels strongly after all these months of intimidating demands from this aggressive parking firm and their agents, that they need a voice at an attended hearing and wishes to question the Claimant about their evidence in person and to expose omissions and incorrect evidence, and therefore requests that the case be listed for an oral hearing at the defendants home court, pursuant to CPR 26.2A(3)."

LDast

GodEmperorBozza said:

Sent.
As an FYI, I conjoined a couple of responses I found on the forum to the D1 response to produce the following which  fits in the form's text box and might be of use to other people in future:

"The defendant is not content for the case to be heard 'on the papers' because that disproportionately gives an advantage to a legally represented party, and feels strongly after all these months of intimidating demands from this aggressive parking firm and their agents, that they need a voice at an attended hearing and wishes to question the Claimant about their evidence in person and to expose omissions and incorrect evidence, and therefore requests that the case be listed for an oral hearing at the defendants home court, pursuant to CPR 26.2A(3)."

Unless you are allocated to one of the six county courts – Bedford, Luton, Guildford, Staines, Cardiff and Manchester, that are taking part in "The Small Claims Paper Determination Pilot" which is active until 1st December, unless it is extended.

GodEmperorBozza

Good afternoon. The latest is that SCMS have emailed me to arrange a telephone mediation appointment next month

Coupon-mad

Which is now compulsory, as you'll have seem from reviewing the first 12 steps in the Template Defence thread. It tells you what to do. 5 minutes of your time wasted.