Yet another DCB legal court claim...

Tr3house

Good evening all, many thanks for your continued efforts in supporting the community with your valuable advice.

I am at the court claim stage with DCB legal - issue date 29/04/2025. The client is Euro Car Parks Limited. I’ve filed an AoS on the 03/05/2025 and it was received on the 06/05/2025. I am now in the process of preparing my defense and could use your help with paragraph 3, specifically. For the rest I am following the template set out in the newbies thread.

 

For information, the POC is shown below:

In essence I overstayed by about 15 to 20mins or so at the car park as I wasn't able to get back to my car in time due to a protracted, but important, work commitment. Didn’t realise that I had overstayed so was shocked to receive the PCN.

 

My drafting for paragraph 3, as per the advice on the other threads, is as follows:

 

Referring to the POC: paragraph 1 is denied. The Defendant is not indebted to the Claimant. Paragraph 2 is denied. No PCN was "issued on 22/05/2023" (the date of the alleged visit).  Whilst the Defendant is the registered keeper, paragraphs 3 and 4 are denied. The Defendant is not liable and has seen no evidence of a breach of prominent terms.  The quantum is hugely exaggerated (no PCN can be £170 on private land) and there were no damages incurred whatsoever. The Claimant is put to strict proof of all of their allegations.

 

My question is, should I add anything else to the above? Thanks in advance.

Additionally, now that I've done my AoS, what is deadline for the defense?

 

Cheers,

Tr3House

Coupon-mad

Remove this which no longer makes sense since April as DCB changed the POC a bit:

"No PCN was "issued on 22/05/2023" (the date of the alleged visit)."

Your defence must be in by day 33 from the claim issue date. That never changes once a person has done the AOS.