DCB Legal & First Parking - 2 x university parking court claims 3 weeks apart

Pandemonium78

Mediation appointment done, easy, nice mediator lady, it was over within 7 minutes. 
First offer from PPC £213, second offer £180, no offer from my side. 
They stand by their "you didn't appeal within the timeframe, so tough!" stance.
So it's a see you in court (if it gets that far) scenario.  Mediator says backlog is 9 months.

MothballsWallet

Coupon-mad said:

Pandemonium78 said:

Should I start new thread for a new claim or keep both in this thread?  Both DCB Legal.

Issue date for second claim is 31 JUL 2025 (received in post on 05 AUG 2025).

I know to add "cause of action estoppel" to defence for second PCN (issued 3 weeks after the first one).

MCOL have still not logged the defence for the first claim which was submitted 01 JUL 2025.

Pandemonium78 said:

Govt public consultation form completed, what a ball ache that was, but I hope my response is of some use.

N180 DQ received by email from bulklitigation@dcblegal..... for the second PCN.  The defence submitted on this one was the new shorter version and on MCOL.  As I understand it am to ignore that email from bulklitigation and await An N180 from CNBC sent directly to me, yes?

The first PCN remains stayed.  The defence submitted on that one was the old long version and via email. 

As of 1st October the entire university campus will be under ANPR parking run by First Parking, so expect a lot more of these.   

So glad you did the Consultation!

Also very glad my daughter already graduated from there years ago!

Even dropping off belongings on site, picking her up at the end of terms or taking her to the GP when she had a fever was fraught with concern about getting ticketed. I recall not going inside with her and instead, standing in front of my numberplate and giving my 'angry mum' evil eye at a security guard to 'dare' him to try to take photos of student unloading activity ... he scuttled away!

ANPR will mean no parent can do any of that for students, as it takes more than 5 minutes to traverse the campus.

And every parent, students, staff, taxis, workmen/women and delivery drivers going to replenish the on-site Co-op will get PCNs: nobody will know it's changed if F1rst don't put copious 'changed terms/enforcement' extra signs up!

As for food deliveries: it will become a no go area. 

I'm sure some takeaways and supermarkets who offer deliveries have a "black list" of addresses that they won't deliver to for reasons like this: the Uni Faculty need to understand that if their students can't get deliveries because of their best buddy PPC, then their attendance figures could start to drop.

Pandemonium78

I am now at the point after mediation has occurred; am I to expect numerous phone calls from dcb legal leaving automated voicemail messages asking me to "call them urgently"? They seem to be getting more frequent, I suppose they want to settle and give me more opportunities to pay them to go away?!

Gr1pr

Correct, IGNORE THEM, block them, they had their chances at mediation

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81889931#Comment_81889931

Have you got two separate claims or just one for two PCNs?

Pandemonium78

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81890171#Comment_81890171

Well it appears DCB Legal didn't meet the deadline for one of the claims and it is now "stayed".

So there is just one ongoing claim for one PCN. I received a Notice of Transfer of Proceedings from CNBC mid January saying it has been transferred to my local court for allocation.

Pandemonium78

This letter was received from the court through the post, appears they’re saying the claim hasn’t been defended satisfactorily or at all, and another defence needs to be filed at court and served to the claimant. Not sure what was done wrong as all the instructions were followed.

Coupon-mad

@Char27 had to do this.

Read her thread then amend the defence by striking out all the generic DLUHC stuff in red.

Then underneath the altered defence (in the same document) add new more bespoke responses in red and a newly signed SoT & date this week.

Which local court ordered this? It is very rare - bad luck! - and I can count on one hand the people ordered to re-do a defence over the years. But you must comply.

DCB Legal will discontinue in the end. Stupid judge clearly doesn't know that!

Pandemonium78

it’s Lancaster. I could have chosen Preston or Manchester as well, maybe I should have.

I have re-read the copy of what I submitted on MCOL on the N9B defence form and it isn’t very clear what my defence is because I was going on about cause of action estoppel, and that is actually irrelevant because there is no other claim now as it has stayed.
The judge probably thinks “what is this woman going on about”, there is just one line where I say ”and plus I had a parking permit on display”, I feel a bit silly now.

My only question is where to send the defence when I’ve redone it, they don’t provide an email address only postal and fax, I can try calling the court to obtain an email address, I don’t trust the post.
I’ll email it to DCB Legal as well.

Coupon-mad

Manchester judges are far better and would have ordered the Claimant to re-do the POC!

Anyway you can obviously google and use the Court Finder that will be your top result. Use the hearings or enquiries email address but NOT an old one.