DCB Legal/Euro Car Parks Waterfront - Question about Defence

WrathMage

Well we had our court mandated mediation call today. DCB Legal offered £285 via the mediator, we laughed and offered them £10, they countered at £185 straight off and we said no thank you, see you in court.

The only thing that I have had wrong all this time is that they are saying we overstayed, rather than didn't pay. Not sure that this makes a difference, but I want to make sure we don't make a mess of our witness statement. In terms of Particular of Claim, is theirs compliant with CPR 16.4(1)(a)?

Thanks once again for the ongoing help

Coupon-mad

You could argue non-compliance with the CPRs and PD16 in your WS, and say you only discovered they are apparently alleging 'overstay' at Mediation stage but it was as clear as mud in the POC. This is astounding, and must be deemed 'unreasonable conduct in litigation', given that the supposed issue was from 5 years ago, yet they only shed a chink of light on the allegation in 2025.

It was also COVID lockdown time so that can feature in your WS too.

WrathMage

Coupon-mad said:

You could argue non-compliance with the CPRs and PD16 in your WS, and say you only discovered they are apparently alleging 'overstay' at Mediation stage but it was as clear as mud in the POC. This us astounding, and must be deemed 'unreasonable conduct in litigation', given that the supposed issue was from 5 years ago, yet they only shed a chink of light on the allegation in 2025.

It was also COVID lockdown time so that can feature in your WS too.

Thanks @C@Coupon-mad, really appreciate the help. We will make sure to include that in our WS. Let's see if they discontinue!

WrathMage

Just a quick update. Today, 2 weeks after DCB Legal offered to settle for £100, and 7 days before the deadline to pay the court costs at our local magistrates to proceed, DCB Legal have discontinued the litigation! Chalk another one up there, and massive thanks @Coupon-madfor the help and support.

Coupon-mad

WrathMage said:

Just a quick update. Today, 2 weeks after DCB Legal offered to settle for £100, and 7 days before the deadline to pay the court costs at our local magistrates to proceed, DCB Legal have discontinued the litigation! Chalk another one up there, and massive thanks @Coupon-madfor the help and support.

Yay! Congrats! You won. It's over.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

But I'm sure you want to help @Umkomaas get to 500 on his discontinuances thread? At the moment we can't count your win and I hope you want to stand up and be counted?

Please post an image of the NoD (not the email body) here or in the 'Disco' thread.

You'll be no.500 if you do it quickly!

  

WrathMage

Sorry for the slow reply, been a busy couple of weeks! Here its is, too slow to be 500 but very happy to be counted:

@Umkomaasenjoy

Coupon-mad

Yay - calling @Umkomaas

  

Umkomaas

One more to add to this shameful pile of ....!  Off to the DCB Legal Discontinuation thread of shame.  Well done @WrathMage. 👍