HM Courts & Tribunals Letter Advice (Euro carparks / DCB Legal)

cherryhouse

Hello good people!

I'm looking for some advice on how to proceed with this situation if possible please.

I originally had a parking fine at a Euro Carparks carpark on 08/05/2022.

DCB Legal sent the increasingly threatening 'invoice' letters, and now I've just received a HM Courts & Tribunals one, which more boldly threatens the possibilty of a court case and CCJ.

I've filed the AOS as suggested. I think that gives me until 16/4/25. I've away from home so lost some time on this.

I've looked at the newbies thread but I'm not 100% clear on how to proceed. Looking at my letters attached can some offer some advice on how to write the defence?

Apologies if I I've not included enough info. I can share anything else needed to support it.


Many thanks!

cherryhouse

Hello good people!

I'm looking for some advice on how to proceed with this situation if possible please.

I originally had a parking fine at a Euro Carparks car park on 08/05/2022.

DCB Legal sent the increasingly threatening 'invoice' letters, and now I've just received a HM Courts & Tribunals one, which more boldly threatens the possibility of a court case and CCJ.

I've filed the AOS as suggested. I think that gives me until 16/4/25. I've been away from home so I've lost some time on this.

I've looked at the newbies thread but I'm not 100% clear on how to proceed. Looking at my letters attached, can someone offer some advice on how to write the defence? They're asking for a crazy amount of money to settle this but then it's half tempting to pay it to make it go away.

Apologies if I've not included enough info. I can share anything else needed to support it.

Many thanks!

cherryhouse

please delete thread - duplicate with mistakes

Coupon-mad

cherryhouse said:

please delete thread - duplicate with mistakes

It's not a duplicate thread. And you can edit and delete the repeated post once you've made a few more posts & become a Forumite.

Anyway just do what the Template Defence tells you to do. The defence stage is easy.

troublemaker22

By my count the deadline for filing the defence is 14 April. 

Castle

troublemaker22 said:

By my count the deadline for filing the defence is 14 April. 

I agree-Monday 14th.

Gr1pr

As above,  it's 4pm next Monday,  14th April 

Use the typical ECP template defence,  with the typical paragraph 3 with the altered date to suit the date in the POC on the lower left of the claim form 

Use the full template,  email it as a pdf document attachment to claim responses at the CNBC in Northampton,  before the deadline 

Simples

You only need to look at 

The second post in the newbies sticky thread in announcements near the top of the forum 

The defence template thread in announcements near the top of the forum 

A few other recent ECP DCB Legal cases over the last 2 or 3 months,  to get the gist 

No logging into mcol

No filling in the defence online in mcol

No paperwork either 

cherryhouse

Thanks for the help!

Samani27

I also have the exact same letter and l am new to this. I cant seem to find the ECP letter template, im not sure where sticky thread is etc. I only have until tomorrow to lodge defence. Please can someone tell me where the ECP Template is. Thanks

Gr1pr

The template defence is in the 2nd post in the second announcement down from the top of this forum,  above this thread

ECP DCB Legal cases need something like this, suitably adapted

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6634072/dcb-legal-ecp-court-claim-2025/p1

Fact check your draft if using it 

Samani27

Thank you Gr1pr, as its my last day today i need to do the AOS and get the defence letter sent today. Do l use the moneyclaim. gov. uk site to do both of these actions (as obviously cannot post due to deadline today, so has to be somekind of online version to do this. Or is there an email or link? Please let me know as l have to do this today. Really appreciate any help. Thank you