2+ years fine, Smart Parking/dcbl

Coupon-mad

Search the forum for other DCB Smart claims recently because there is extra wording to include about them lying about the POFA.

awyrlas

Is this the type of wording you're referring to?

1.  The Defendant denies that the Claimant is entitled to relief in the sum claimed, or at all.  Further, it is denied that this Claimant (understood to have a bare licence as agents) has standing to sue or form contracts in their own name. Liability is denied, whether or not the Claimant is claiming 'keeper liability', which is unclear due to contradictory information presented in the boilerplate text in the Particulars of Claim.

awyrlas

I received another letter this morning from DCBL demanding immediate payment of £312 for not replying, despite having registered with MCOL on 8th June.
I've now emailed my defence. I find the techniques and wording so intimidating "your goods may be removed and sold." If it wasn't for the advice here I'd have buckled by now.

Castle

awyrlas said:

I received another letter this morning from DCBL demanding immediate payment of £312 for not replying, despite having registered with MCOL on 8th June.
I've now emailed my defence. I find the techniques and wording so intimidating "your goods may be removed and sold." If it wasn't for the advice here I'd have buckled by now.

Have you done the AOS on MCOL?

awyrlas

Castle said:

awyrlas said:

I received another letter this morning from DCBL demanding immediate payment of £312 for not replying, despite having registered with MCOL on 8th June.
I've now emailed my defence. I find the techniques and wording so intimidating "your goods may be removed and sold." If it wasn't for the advice here I'd have buckled by now.

Have you done the AOS on MCOL?

I registered with MCOL and presume that included the AOS or am I wrong?
Looking at my claim history:
A claim was issued against you on 30/5/2025
A judgment was issued against you on 24/6/2025
I submitted my defence and received my claim response on 27/6/2025

What are my next steps?

ChirpyChicken

So you logged you defence out of time.
School boy error i am afraid 
You will now need to pay up

Gr1pr

As above,  you should have logged into MCOL and completed the AOS stage in early June , your AOS completion  deadline was 18th June, but wasn't done,  your defence was therefore submitted too late based on not completing the AOS online 


From the defence template thread in announcements 

The steps after doing the AOS (the only thing you must do on MCOL) involve email.

FIRST THING TO DO - BUT NOT SOONER THAN DAY FIVE FROM THE 'ISSUE DATE':

Acknowledging service of a claim:

Here is the up to date document from SoftwareMad, where she shows how to acknowledge a claim, which is to be done within the first fortnight to buy yourself time to defend (but preferably after DAY FIVE, or you eat into your allowed days!):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ni1h8g3u5skvynt/MCOL AOS help file.pdf?dl=0

YOU WILL NOT GET A RESPONSE.  

YOU MUST THEN DRAFT YOUR DEFENCE IN TIME.

Not following the deadlines correctly has just cost you the money because the claimants lawyers pulled the trigger last week,  so now needs paying in full to the legal company ASAP,  before the 30 days grace period expires