G24 DCB Legal court claim 2025

Potatopotatopotato

I received a without prejudice email offering to settle yesterday.  Does this mean I'm on the home stretch?

Ralph-y

yes .... read the big long thread about all the last min discontinuities

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6377263/dcb-legal-record-of-private-parking-court-claim-discontinuations#latest  

Coupon-mad

Potatopotatopotato said:

I received a without prejudice email offering to settle yesterday.  Does this mean I'm on the home stretch?

Yep. We need to see the attached NoD when it comes (not the email). We need to count it!

Now read this message and please prepare to join us to do the Public Consultation once we've discussed it in August.

It's vital the Government hears from Defendants threatened by court. Tell your story. Shoehorn it in somewhere, maybe in answer to why cases go to court (q13 or 14):

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81552148/#Comment_81552148

Please bookmark the main thread linked in that link.

Come back in August to take part.

We need to drown out the 'alternative facts' from the parking industry and their relatives posing as ordinary motorist consumers.

Potatopotatopotato

Still waiting on hearing more, is there a typical timeframe between the without prejudice email and them dropping it?  It's been over two weeks now.

I will take part and upload the letter when it comes.

Gr1pr

Check your spam folder as well as your inbox 

The discontinuation email tends to happen just before the hearing fee is due,  nothing to do with any offers

Potatopotatopotato

Thanks, is that usually after the mediation appointment?  I've been allocated a date towards the end of this month.

The mediation appointment is also scheduled a few dayz after the six year point.  Does that mean they won't be able to proceed anyway?

Car1980

After mediation.

The 6 years is to start a claim, so irrelevant now.

Coupon-mad

Potatopotatopotato said:

Thanks, is that usually after the mediation appointment?  I've been allocated a date towards the end of this month.

The mediation appointment is also scheduled a few dayz after the six year point.  Does that mean they won't be able to proceed anyway?

Three minute call.

No discussion. I would tell the Mediator that this case will be discontinued before any hearing anyway ... because they always are. Mediators are being duped if they and their colleagues believe private parking claimants' representatives' rubbish. Tell the Court Mediation team to wake up and realise the monster they are supporting, by spouting the rubbish from DCB Legal at Defendants as if it is a proper claim.

Tell the Mediator that this case is a complete waste of everyone's time and you hope the Mediators are passing this honest information onto their senior team.

Polite "goodbye". Phone down!

Parking firms and their dubious law firms are a national disgrace and a drain on Society, in terms of money and anxiety.

Do come back - next week - to join us as we discuss recommended responses to the Public Consultation which is far more important than joke mediation of a 'debt' you don't owe!

Potatopotatopotato

Coupon-mad said:

Potatopotatopotato said:

Thanks, is that usually after the mediation appointment?  I've been allocated a date towards the end of this month.

The mediation appointment is also scheduled a few dayz after the six year point.  Does that mean they won't be able to proceed anyway?

Three minute call.

No discussion. I would tell the Mediator that this case will be discontinued before any hearing anyway ... because they always are. Mediators are being duped if they and their colleagues believe private parking claimants' representatives' rubbish. Tell the Court Mediation team to wake up and realise the monster they are supporting, by spouting the rubbish from DCB Legal at Defendants as if it is a proper claim.

Tell the Mediator that this case is a complete waste of everyone's time and you hope the Mediators are passing this honest information onto their senior team.

Polite "goodbye". Phone down!

Parking firms and their dubious law firms are a national disgrace and a drain on Society, in terms of money and anxiety.

Do come back - next week - to join us as we discuss recommended responses to the Public Consultation which is far more important than joke mediation of a 'debt' you don't owe!

I have my mediation appointment tomorrow, I was just having a look on here for any tips of how to handle it.

So I can just say something like that rather than going into detail about my defence etc?

Coupon-mad

There are two links about this 'nothing' stage in the Template Defence first 8 steps. No further guudance is needed.

And even though this is stressful: while your case is quiet (Mediation is merely a burp before you gobble DCB Legal up and spit them out...because they'll discontinue in the end) please please do the government's Public Consultation.

We need every poster to come back & complete this vital Consultation before the deadline (this time next week). 

See this thread: -

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

We understand that you may need some pointers. It looks laborious, we get that. It doesn't matter; no knowledge is needed except re your own experiences so you can call out a scam industry and you'll protect millions of motorists and help change the law.

I've written some guidance on that thread. I have covered almost every question, providing ideas if you agree with our stance on things like DRFs, which we say must be banned.

Ordinary people like you are falling victim to this scam 15 million times per annum. Motorists need your voice added please.