Urgent help required Defending County Court Claim for M1 Services Parking fine

Zak111

PCN issued 10/07/24
I did not receive the original letter which was sent to the old address where car is registered. My licence has been updated for new address but no the car V5c (log book). We moved in Aug 2020 from that address.

Claim was issued on 12 March. Acknowledgement of Services was filed 30 March so near the deadline now.

Is it valid defence that I did not recipe the original PCN and offer of reduce payment. If not what could be the valid defence in this case. I want to file the defence via MPOL website today. Hope that's ok?

 Many thanks.

Zak111

Sorry correction: the acknowledgement of service was 01 April

Gr1pr

Zak111 said:

PCN issued 10/07/24
I did not receive the original letter which was sent to the old address where car is registered. My licence has been updated for new address but no the car V5c (log book). We moved in Aug 2020 from that address.

Claim was issued on 12 March. Acknowledgement of Services was filed 30 March so near the deadline now.

Is it valid defence that I did not recipe the original PCN and offer of reduce payment. If not what could be the valid defence in this case. I want to file the defence via MPOL website today. Hope that's ok?

 Many thanks.

No it's not,  the obligation was on the RK to update the dvla and V5c logbook promptly 

Not receiving paperwork is no defence 

Study the newbies sticky thread in announcements,  second post 

You may well have to cut down a defence template and submit it on MCOL ASAP,  your deadline was over an hour ago 

Name the parking company and the lawyers below,  and post a redacted picture of the POC on the lower left of the claim form after hiding the VRM details first 

Zak111

Gr1pr said:

Zak111 said:

PCN issued 10/07/24
I did not receive the original letter which was sent to the old address where car is registered. My licence has been updated for new address but no the car V5c (log book). We moved in Aug 2020 from that address.

Claim was issued on 12 March. Acknowledgement of Services was filed 30 March so near the deadline now.

Is it valid defence that I did not recipe the original PCN and offer of reduce payment. If not what could be the valid defence in this case. I want to file the defence via MPOL website today. Hope that's ok?

 Many thanks.

No it's not,  the obligation was on the RK to update the dvla and V5c logbook promptly 

Not receiving paperwork is no defence 

Study the newbies sticky thread in announcements,  second post 

You may well have to cut down a defence template and submit it on MCOL ASAP,  your deadline was over an hour ago 

Name the parking company and the lawyers below,  and post a redacted picture of the POC on the lower left of the claim form after hiding the VRM details first 

Is there a link that you can please provide for that thread?

Gr1pr

We dont provide links to announcements,  which are located above your thread at the top of the forum,  below the yellow information banners provided by MSE admin staff 

You click on the 3rd thread down from the top,  the newbies sticky thread,  stuck up there 

Frankly,  new members should be studying the information on here before posting,  including the rules set by this website,  plus the required reading of those important announcements too

So no links, not to readily accessible information threads or banners 

Zak111

So below the yellow banners. I cannot see anything. Not sure if it's my screen. Sorry to be totally dumb. Please can you help? Is it within forum rules?

Gr1pr

Try clicking on Categories,  Motoring, Parking tickets, fines and parking,  getting away from the large welcome newbie screen shown above 

Zak111

Gr1pr said:

Try clicking on Categories,  Motoring, Parking tickets, fines and parking,  getting away from the large welcome newbie screen shown above 

Thanks for this. These are various cases where the appeal has been succeful ordered. Would basing the appeal that "The Operator has not demonstrated that theyhave authority to issue parking charge notices" work?

Zak111

Gr1pr said:

Zak111 said:

PCN issued 10/07/24
I did not receive the original letter which was sent to the old address where car is registered. My licence has been updated for new address but no the car V5c (log book). We moved in Aug 2020 from that address.

Claim was issued on 12 March. Acknowledgement of Services was filed 30 March so near the deadline now.

Is it valid defence that I did not recipe the original PCN and offer of reduce payment. If not what could be the valid defence in this case. I want to file the defence via MPOL website today. Hope that's ok?

 Many thanks.

No it's not,  the obligation was on the RK to update the dvla and V5c logbook promptly 

Not receiving paperwork is no defence 

Study the newbies sticky thread in announcements,  second post 

You may well have to cut down a defence template and submit it on MCOL ASAP,  your deadline was over an hour ago 

Name the parking company and the lawyers below,  and post a redacted picture of thePOC on the lower left of the claim form after hiding the VRM details first 

Please see attached. Where do  i find the template to complete?

Gr1pr

Too late for any appeals, that ship sailed long ago,  you are going to be defending a small claim as the defendant by submitting a defence,  as seen in the defence template thread above the newbies thread in the thread listing 

But its too big to fit in the MCOL start defence box, plus doing so destroys the formatting,  so it will need suitable editing in order to fit it online,  2 quirks of the outdated system they currently use

You still haven't named the Parking company claimant or their lawyers,  despite me asking earlier 

Coupon-mad

Zak111 said:

Gr1pr said:

Try clicking on Categories,  Motoring, Parking tickets, fines and parking,  getting away from the large welcome newbie screen shown above 

Thanks for this. These are various cases where the appeal has been succeful ordered. Would basing the appeal that "The Operator has not demonstrated that theyhave authority to issue parking charge notices" work?

No there aren't.

Why are you reading the wrong thing? You aren't appealing a PCN!

YOU ARE DEFENDING A CLAIM FORM,

DO NOT PUT IN AN APPEAL!

Read the TEMPLATE DEFENCE thread and just use the first half of the one linked in the FIRST POST for ParkingEye/DCB Legal cases.

It'll take you about ten minutes to add your own facts as paragraph 6.

Do it now. Do nothing else.