claim form

Pleasehelpmeout

Hello, please help, 
I received a claim form from Edmonton green shopping centre (North London) for falling to pay parking tariff at and the claimant claims £535.40 or a total of £675.40 inc court fees (I am going insane 🤯😫) I have parked many times there to go shopping at Asda, I even asked the security guy for the parking he he said is 2h free, I was sent pcn by them but I was doing a home renovation and to be honest I thought I would just ignore them and I don’t even know how did I end up here, now I am very scared that they will get me to ccj, let me mention that the claimant form is in my partners name (he is the vehicle keeper) but he was not the driver, I was I think that’s shown on the picture thay have taken too! 

Should I
1. pay the amount before they taking me to court? 
2. Complete acknowledgment of service or a defence? 

Is there any way to get them back to just pay the parking ticket? 

(Is about three pcn’s issued on 17.06.2024, 22.06.2024, 01.07.2024) 
thank you in advance 

Pleasehelpmeout

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that’s the claim form I got! 

Clive_Woody

Your password and claims number are still showing, you need to delete this ASAP

Nellymoser

Repost your claim form with the above redacted too and reg no in PoC.
Read NEWBIES Announcement thread 2nd post Small Claim.

Gr1pr

Your partner should complete the AOS online and draft a defence 

Post the name of the parking company,  the lawyers if used,  the issue date from the claim form after hiding the personal details,  plus post a redacted picture of the POC on the lower left of the claim form after hiding the VRM details first 

Definitely nobody pays 

As its in your partners name,  it's nothing to do with you,  but you can and probably should assist them going forward 

Pleasehelpmeout

Clive_Woody said:

Your password and claims number are still showing, you need to delete this ASAP

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Gr1pr

The VRM is unredacted,  lower left 

So G24 via DCB Legal,  3 pcns,  probably at £100 each, those 3 dates are probably incorrect,  issued 19 Feb 2025

You have never received any of those multiple letters,  your partner has,  not you

As the claim is in their own name,  they must login to MCOL online and do the AOS,  nothing else 

Then look at the recent similar cases and paragraph 2 says keeper but not the driver 

Paragraph 3 is the numbered rebuttal,  but changing or adding 3 dates,  not one 

Pleasehelpmeout

 

Gr1pr said:

Your partner should complete the AOS online and draft a defence 

Post the name of the parking company,  the lawyers if used,  the issue date from the claim form after hiding the personal details,  plus post a redacted picture of the POC on the lower left of the claim form after hiding the VRM details first 

Definitely nobody pays 

As its in your partners name,  it's nothing to do with you,  but you can and probably should assist them going forward 

ok following the advices written here we just competed the AOS online, and i will today start my draft defence (which I have no idea how to do, but I am reading the newbie’s announcement and hopefully will get it 🤞🤞

name of parking company is: DCB (I think, can’t find something else) 
claimant’s legal representative is Sarah Ensall
issue date is: 19 Feb 2025

you gave me much hope by saying that nobody pays, as I am really scared that we are either paying £675 or getting a bad credit score 

thank you so much for your help (honestly) 

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Gr1pr

G24 is the parking company claimant,  top left

Dcb Legal are the lawyers acting on behalf of G24 , so next paragraph down on the left of the form

When you say we, I hope that it was your partner as defendant that logged into the Gov gateway,  navigated to MCOL and they did the AOS online   ?  ( with you assisting them  )  this is nothing to do with you,  please understand that 

Its your partners defence you are both drafting,  so not MY defence,  but MY PARTNER'S defence 

Gr1pr

Use the following example,  but alter paragraph 3 because there are 3 pcns and therefore 3 dates,  so reword that part of the paragraph accordingly , the example below was only one date, not 3 dates 

2 is unchanged because your partner is the keeper but not the driver 

Then possibly think about adding a concise paragraph 3.1, if its necessary,  which it may not be in this case, especially as the keeper was not the driver 

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6590389/g24-dcb-legal-pcn-cnbc-claim-help-with-defence-assistance-required#latest

The rest of the template defence will be used at the correct time,  but you will replace paragraphs 2 & 3 with your draft paragraphs 

KeithP

With a Claim Issue Date of 19th February, and having filed an Acknowledgment of Service('AOS') in a timely manner, you have until 4pm on Monday 24th March 2025 to file a Defence.

That's over three weeks away. Plenty of time to produce a Defence but please don't leave it to the last minute.

To create a Defence, and then file a Defence by email, look at the second post in the NEWBIES thread.

Don't miss the deadline for filing a Defence.

Do not try and file a Defence via the MoneyClaimOnline website. Once an AOS has been filed, the MCOL website should be treated as 'read only'.