Excel Parking/DCBlegal Defence advice - Paying outside of the 10 minute time upon entry.

Coupon-mad

Great! Show us the NoD when it arrives ... not the email, the form please so we can count it!

They are scuppered as this is a 5 minute rule case. Unfair term under the CRA 2015.

newbie_2517

Will do hope I catch them on the phone at some point haha! It’s nearly been a year since the incident happened now lol 

Le_Kirk

newbie_2517 said:

Update everyone, received a general form of judgement order. Not sure if this is premature of me however I feel quite pleased with this. Am I right to be?

I am back from hols and am adding this to the Judgments link but I cannot see the county court name as you have redacted the judgment.  Can you remove the redaction please?

newbie_2517

Hi everyone, just an update, I have heard nothing since I last posted except another failed email attempt from DCB legal to settle. So as I’ve not heard anymore from the court should I assume that the matter is now closed? Or do I need the court to write to confirm this? From the last they said DCB legal had a time frame to alter their claim form but I feel this hasn’t been done otherwise surely they would have told me this by now? Please let me know your thoughts. 

On the MCOL website the status is still at ‘acknowledgement of service’ and ‘claim transferred to the xxx court’.

@Le_Kirk I sent the un redacted version to coupon-mad.  

(In other news I had another small parking win which I can post on a separate thread from the cancel. My ticket I bought had slipped down the dashboard and I got a ticket. I appealed immediately on the council appeal website and they waved the fine and gave me a warning, very long worded letter which had no basis as it still applied under the new rules if a ticket is paid in full that they can’t fine you. I will upload that on a separate thread as an example of a straight forward council appeal and win). 

   

Gr1pr

MCOL is never updated once the claim has been transferred to the court of choice, so no idea why you looked on there   !

Your local civil court is the place to find out what is happening,  so you should be liaising with that local civil court,  never assume anything,  if its not fact then it's not relevant 

Phone them and see if they filed an amended claim,  because if they had then you should have received a paper copy in the post 

Coupon-mad

You could email your costs assessment to the local court (see the 2 successful costs reclaim examples linked in the NEWBIES thread) and point out that the Claimant failed to comply but is still unreasonably trying to push for payment.

As such, please could a judge confirm the claim is struck out and order the attached costs, which the Claimant was on notice about from the final paragraph of the defence, where the White Book is quoted.

If you have any costs?

If not, email the local court to advise them that the Claimant failed to comply and could District Judge Akers please rubber stamp the strike out, so that you can get your life back and ceremoniously burn the paperwork!

And we need you now! Make a difference. Your important 'job' in August is now this:

It's very important that people like you tell the Government that you have no faith in the parking industry and the DRA demands are a pathetic attempt to extort money.

It's cheaper and far better to defend a court claim and third parties adding any extra money is one of the major two factors that stop people engaging at pre-action stage (the other factor is using old addresses and refusing to reissue PCNs or hear disputes).

THE ENRICHMENT OF 'DEBT RECOVERY FEES' MUST BE COMPLETELY BANNED.

DISPUTED CASES ARE NOT SOLVED BY DEMANDING MORE MONEY AND ENGINEERING A 'PAYMENT PLAN'.

Responses are invited to the Consultation now:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6617396/parking-code-of-practice-consultation-8-weeks-from-11th-july-2025/p1

Coupon-mad

@Le_Kirk - the version with Huddersfield court showing is here:

newbie_2517

@Gr1pr Thank you so much for this advice I will get onto the court on Monday! 

@Coupon-mad Yes this is a great idea I will look into this and try to incorporate this in. Could I claim
for costs for lost time at work to deal with the claim? I’ll read into it but I believe it’s capped at like £90-£100? Might be worth a short anyway it certainly has involved a lot of admin and also brain power ! Would also be a hit back at them as well which is sending a strong message.

Yes of course I will fill that in we all need to band together to stop this ludicrous parking culture.

A positive outcome of this is that it has slightly inspired me in my professional life to go for a dual qualification and I close to joining a prep course with BARBRI for SQE1&2 preparation to gain a dual legal qualification using my expert witness work as QWE. I have seen some other colleagues go for this and to be honest I really like the idea as opens up some other doors in my career.  Funny that this all started off with this parking claim but it has certainly given me a keen interest in understanding the law!

I will update again once I have spoken to the court and will upload one I get in writing that it has been struck out. 

Many thanks all.

Car1980

£19 is the standard - you'd have to prove having booked time off work.

4 hours @ £19 (half a day) = £76 would be reasonable.

Unless you travelled to the car park to view the contract they refuse to supply. 

Coupon-mad

I think you are best sending your costs assessment with an email asking for the judge to deal with your costs when striking the claim out. Two birds, one stone.

Costs are not capped when claimed under the unreasonable conduct doctrine - different CPR.

See the end of your defence (if you used the template defence). It was all spelt out there and this scenario is why it's there. The applicable CPRs are listed there. The C can't say they didn't know you intended to claim costs.

Also study the 2 linked cases in the NEWBIES thread. I think both of them showed the emails they sent. One needed a hearing and one didn't. Up to the judge but I'm trying to avoid a hearing for you, by suggesting you email to ask the judge to deal with costs at the same time as the strike out.