DCB Legal for Euro Car Parks CNBC Claim form

Lostinadulthood

Hi all, thank you in advance for any and all advice. I admit I am terrified and struggling to wrap my head around everything. I received the following claim form on Friday, 02/05/2025.

Here are the facts thus far:

1.      I began receiving collection letters from DCBL in November 2024 for 3 separate cases: one for a single fine for a doctor surgery car park £170, one for a single fine for Euro Car Parks £170, one for three fines for Euro Car Parks £510. Total £850.

2.      I never received the original PCNs in the post due to my V5C not being up to date. I am originally from the USA and did not know it had to be updated alongside my DL and road tax every time I moved house (which has been a lot). I know ignorance is not a defence and I have now corrected this.

3.      My attempts to appeal/complain to Euro Car Parks directly were rejected due to the time that had lapsed and the case being passed to DCBL.

4.      Not knowing I had options, I offered a payment plan to DCBL of £50 per month if they combined the 3 cases and applied the amount to all. They rejected the offer stating it would exceed the maximum amount of time to pay back and the minimum they would accept was £96 per month. I declined and ignored further calls.

5.      I have only received a claim form for the case that includes 3 fines from Euro Car Parks.

6.      I parked there regularly for school and it is likely that I forgot to pay via the app on these days if I was running late.

7.      The car park in question is no longer owned by Euro Car Parks and is now an NCP car park.

8.      I submitted my AOS today.

I don’t want stress and overwhelm to cause me to make an error in the process. If you could link me to a similar case to draft my defence I would be very grateful.

Coupon-mad

Welcome! Don't panic!

Plenty of time.

Do the AOS first.

We can't link to a case because that would need us to search the forum which is unnecessary. Just use the Template Defence with the generic para 3 linked there already.

KeithP

Hello and welcome.

You have left you MCOL password clearly visible.

With a Claim Issue Date of 29th April, and having filed an Acknowledgment of Service('AOS') in a timely manner, you have until 4pm on Monday 2nd June 2025 to file a Defence.

That's nearly four 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'.

Lostinadulthood

Thank you, I will work on it this weekend and update.