DCB Legal letter to claim advice

phey708

Hi all,

Have a DCB letter to claim which I have not responded to yet. It explains they are acting on behalf of their client Euro Car Parks. It was for when the driver parked about 2 years ago (on the back of letter to claim it was from April 2022). I appealed a while ago via POPLA but unfortunatly lost however it was radio silence since then. It was a pay and display car park and the driver had purchased parking at the time. Apparently their argument was that the reg wasn't entered correctly in to the pay and display machine which we disputed. On the letter of claim it just says that no valid parking was purchased even though we have evidence of paying via mobile banking app.

From reading around the forum, do we now just wait for the official N1 court documents to arrive and then acknowledge a defence rather than responding to the letter to claim? Also is the advice now to not fill out a SAR?

Thanks

Gr1pr

No you do not ignore the Letter of Claim, you email the template response to DCB legal, same as everyone else 

When they reply, report them to the Inland revenue for possible Vat fraud on the £70

Do not email a SAR to ECP until AFTER the case has been transferred to your local civil court, so next year 

Wait for the N1 claim pack to arrive, then follow the AOS instructions and draft the defence based on the template defence by coupon mad, studying the first few posts in that thread 

phey708

Hello,

I am still going through the motions of the step by step guide and have so far completed AoS and submitted my defence so basically at the WS step.

Even though I specified a local court nearest to my address, I have so far only recieved a notice of transfer of the case to St Helens even though I specified Manchester. This notice of transfer came on 3rd of August however I've not had anything else in regards to a hearing date. Is it normal to wait a while after receiving notice of transfer before a hearing date is set?

Coupon-mad

phey708 said:

Hello,

I am still going through the motions of the step by step guide and have so far completed AoS and submitted my defence so basically at the WS step.

Even though I specified a local court nearest to my address, I have so far only recieved a notice of transfer of the case to St Helens even though I specified Manchester. This notice of transfer came on 3rd of August however I've not had anything else in regards to a hearing date. Is it normal to wait a while after receiving notice of transfer before a hearing date is set?

Search the parking forum (only) for:

complain St Helens

and copy what others did to get it changed.

phey708

Hi thanks for the response. I have just received the notice of allocation to the small claims and have a date for a hearing on August this year. Unusually it states that the hearing will be conducted by telephone and we are not to attend the Court in person. Should I still push to get this moved to a local court and specify in person hearing?

Le_Kirk

phey708 said:

Should I still push to get this moved to a local court and specify in person hearing?

See the post just above your most recent one.

Gr1pr

Ax above, all the St Helens allocated ones have similar court letters

So yes of course you should be asking for the case to be transferred to Manchester with an in person hearing,  as coupon mad explained alnost a couple of weeks ago , perseverance pays,  inaction wont achieve anything. If you don't follow our advice,  the court order will stand, unchanged,  tying you into the details in the order

We believe that a uninformed employee at the CNBC was wrongly allocating cases to St Helens 

Coupon-mad

phey708 said:

Hi thanks for the response. I have just received the notice of allocation to the small claims and have a date for a hearing on August this year. Unusually it states that the hearing will be conducted by telephone and we are not to attend the Court in person. Should I still push to get this moved to a local court and specify in person hearing?

Copy the complaint on the other St Helens telephone hearing threads.

phey708

Thanks. Email sent. I've actually just received an email today from DCB Legal to say they are willing to settle the matter for £80 'without prejudice save as to costs'

Looking at similar threads on this sub forum it looks like this is a template letter they send out. If I need to respond to this, should I reply saying that I wish for the matter to continue in the courts? I am also thinking here of simply making a counter offer of £20 as this is the BPA documented fee for a major keying error

Coupon-mad

Ignore it and offer nothing.

DCB always discontinue single PCN Euro Car Parks cases.

phey708

Just as predicted, I have received their notice of continuation email. I will wait for the official notice from court but looks like I can relax now: