Parking Control Management UK Ltd (PCM) / Moorside Legal Discontinued April 2025

frankyfrank

Coupon-mad said:

Just means that hearing date has been vacated. Nothing more. Maybe the C cannot attend that date. Did they copy you into their email asking to change the date (we assume)?

If not, phone the local court on Tuesday and ask for a copy of what was asked for by the C (because you weren't copied in) and ask what's happening next?

I'm worried the C might have said 'please make a decision on the papers without a hearing' which I hope ISN'T what you agreed to in your N180 about suitability for determination?

The court letter is all I received. I've emailed the court asking for a copy of the claimants request. In my N180 following adive here I asked for an in person hearing not on the papers and this was all set for 10th June. Havent filed my WS yet as I was hoping to see their evidence first but as deadline is 22nd April it's getting kind of close. Will uppdate here when I get a response from

frankyfrank

Just had a very quick response from the court which I AM now reading as a victory !?!?!?!

"Good Afternoon

It is up to the claimant to serve you with anything that they serve on the court.

You do not have to file anything relating to this matter as it is now discontinued.

Thank you

**************
Civil Section"

ChirpyChicken

frankyfrank said:

Just had a very quick response from the court which I AM now reading as a victory !?!?!?!

"Good Afternoon

It is up to the claimant to serve you with anything that they serve on the court.

You do not have to file anything relating to this matter as it is now discontinued.

Thank you

**************
Civil Section"

indeed it is!

Coupon-mad

frankyfrank said on 3rd March:

Hi All,

First post. I've gone through newbies post and didnt see anything about location errors in PCNs so starting this thread.

I received a PCN for parking at a Texaco garage in April 2022 where after purchasing fuel I moved my vehicle to a parking area and popped to a shop. So I receive the PCN and the offence location is incorrectly stated as that of another Texaco garage a mile away with a similar postcode. Having made enquiries on social media I've also found out that they've been making this error with most if not all PCN's issued from this garage.

Moorside Legal are taking me to court:

And my admittedly rushed defence statement...

DEFENCE STATEMENT

1. The Defendant denies that the Claimant is entitled to relief in the sum claimed, or at all. It is
denied that a there was a breach of Term on the Claimants signs. Liability is denied, whether or not the Claimant is claiming 'keeper liability', which is unclear from the boilerplate text in the Particulars of Claim ('the POC'). However, the vehicle is recognised and it is admitted that the Defendant is the address of the registered keeper, Mr xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx.

The facts as known to the Defendant:

2. The claim is entirely based on an embarrassingly erroneous Parking Charge Notice which refers to two separate service stations. The Claimant states that the vehicle was parked at ‘Texaco Crossroads – CF35’ but provides photographic evidence taken at Pencoed Service Station, 11 Coychurch Road, Pencoed CF35 5NH. Although not fully stated by the Claimant in the poorly written POC, the Texaco Crossroads Service Station has the postcode CF35 5HY showing they are different locations, around a mile apart.

3. The vehicle was parked at Pencoed Service Station, Coychurch Road on the date and time of the claimed breach and not at Texaco Crossroads Service Station as stated in the POC. This is clearly shown in the Claimants own photographic evidence.

4. The Defendant retains a cash register receipt from Pencoed Service Station, Coychurch Road issued on 15th April 2022 at 11:43:14 to the sum of £40.07 in respect of Diesel purchased.

OK that looks good (ish). 

The bad news is that if your local court is Cardiff, they don't let you have hearings.

They make decisions 'on the papers' so make sure your WS attaches all necessary evidence to support that short defence.

You can always add a challenge about unclear signs/terms because s71 of the CRA 2015 applies in all consumer contract cases.

 frankyfrank said:

Just received this from the court which I am reading as a victory or is caution warranted? If it is a victory thank you very much for the feedback given directly to my post and the threads maintained by the volunteers. Much appreciated! I had my witness statement all ready too and was almost  starting to look forward to judgment day!

On a sidenote, having been stung more than once by these cowboys, I'd love to set up a non profit web site where all the relevant successfully defended judgements to these parking claims could be stored and referenced. It also wouldn't be that difficult to play them at their own game where a lot of the cut and paste POCs used by these big firms could be checked against historically successful defences providing a skeleton defence as a starting point. Just a thought and thanks again!

frankyfrank said:

Just had a very quick response from the court which I am now reading as a victory !?!?!?!

"Good Afternoon

It is up to the claimant to serve you with anything that they serve on the court.

You do not have to file anything relating to this matter as it is now discontinued.

Thank you

**************
Civil Section"

Right! Hooray!

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

Did they email a copy to you of the NoD?  Check your junk emails.

Who is volunteering to start and maintain a Moorside Legal Discontinuances thread because we predicted they were going to copy DCB Legal and we need to collate these starting from now.

frankyfrank

Coupon-mad said:

Did they email a copy to you of the NoD?  Check your junk emails.

I don't think I've received any correspondence via email it's all been via post. I have checked spam and nothing there sorry.

If anything does arrive I will properly scan and upload here.

Gr1pr

Well done 

Please alter the thread title to something more suitable like 

Name of the Parking company,  name of the lawyer firm,  Discontinued 2025

Such as 

PCM UK LTD , Moorside Legal,  Discontinued,  2025

frankyfrank

The notice of discontinuance arrived today and is copied below for reference. The hearing fee was paid on the 7th April so I find it strange that they discontinued just 9 days later.

Gr1pr

Thank you

Moorside Legal are new to this so clearly they and their clients haven't learnt to discontinue BEFORE the hearing fee was due  !

We need a new Discontinuations thread starting, with this case being Numero Uno

Coupon-mad

Gr1pr said:

Thank you

Moorside Legal are new to this so clearly they and their clients haven't learnt to discontinue BEFORE the hearing fee was due  !

We need a new Discontinuations thread starting, with this case being Numero Uno

I agree.

Has any regular got time to be the thread starter and react when they get notifications of more ML discontinuances?

Apple2806

Just come across this after responding to my own letter of claim for Moorside Legal. Reading this has provided me with a sense of relief, congratulations to all involved.