Newbie questions - Excel Parking

Lemonhead39

Thanks again. Yes I meant witness statement.

Coupon-mad

Lemonhead39 said:

Hi

If the legal firm pull the plug on behalf of the claimant, do they normally do this before they pay the £27 trial fee to the court or do they do it in the two weeks preceding the court case date when they will have read my defence?

My case is on a Friday pm with no guaranteed time frame for the hearing so I am thinking there is a chance they will withdraw or their solicitor could be spending Friday evening travelling home. This could of course be a mis-assumption as they may have a solicitor local to me.

Thanks

Excel cases are usually  not discontinued.

You need to urgently change the hearing date as advised, unless you have rearranged your plans.

Lemonhead39

Hi

i will be attending as I am now going to get a later flight. I look forward to concluding this situation.

Coupon-mad

Lemonhead39 said:

Hi

i will be attending as I am now going to get a later flight. I look forward to concluding this situation.

Good. That saves you money either way because even if you lose at a hearing you need to be heard to object to the fake added costs.

And you have much higher chances of a win just by being there as the only true witness re what went wrong on the parking event day.

Gr1pr

You add a costs assessment to your WS, plus proof of wages etc

Gr1pr

Anything that you submit to the court must also go to dcb legal,  your court order says so

Study the costs assessment in other witness statement bundle submissions 

Gr1pr

1) no, your defence is already logged in the case file, so on record,  but you could elaborate on the points raised 

2) see 1) above 

3 ) just state your case, as a first person witness,  don't second guess anything 

The claimant has to prove their claim or they fail,  your WS is your version of events

Lemonhead39

Thanks. I am so looking forward to receiving their WS.

One other question, sorry. How can DCB Legal or the claimant submit a witness statement to something they did not witness?

I have updated the heading of my thread to account for the stage I am at.

Thanks

Car1980

Don't assume they won't discontinue even if they've paid the fee.

Coupon-mad

The hardest element of this is to guess what to defend in the WS. I bought a ticket which I have and the claimants own PCN shows the times of arrival and exit which are absolutely fine. I bought a ticket within two minutes of arrival. I am literally trying to guess what the contravention could be. I also have a ticket with 4 alphanumerics on it which matches my car and a ticket from an earlier visit which again showed 4 alphanumerics so Excel cannot claim I put the wrong registration mark in.

Put all of the above rationale into your WS, plus the two tickets to prove it is clearly a machine keypad error not your typo.

Also search the forum for HHJ Pema. Find that transcript of a circuit judge refusing a parking firm (Excel?) leave to appeal in a similar case. Add that as another exhibit.

Here's a very good, concise but damning WS that I really liked today:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81555055/#Comment_81555055