County court claim form (PE & dcb)

kinc34

I’ve received a letter for payment for not paying for parking. I don’t know what to do I’m thinking getting a solicitor to fight as I read through newbies on here and I’m more confused than ever. 

I parked and went to pay but the machine was not working with my watch, phone or card, eventually it did work and spat out what I thought was a receipt, I chucked the receipt in car and thought nothing more about it, then I get a letter saying I didn’t pay, luckily I’d not thrown the receipt which turned out to be telling me the payment hadn’t gone through. 

I didn’t pay the fine and ignored all subsequent letters from PE thinking they’ll go away but obviously they didn’t. My bad I guess. 

I have video of driving in and out of car park and the receipt still with me. 

We’d been to the car park the week before and used a parking app and location id this time though it was full in the first area but loads of spaces further on but this had no location id notices hence why I used the pay machine. 

My defence is that is a made attempts to pay there was no id marker there (to use the app) and I assumed payment had been made after a receipt came out. 

Do I just pay the fine or do I have to go to court in Northampton, I live on the south coast btw. Thank you for any help. 

I hope this in the right forum if not can admin move it to correct forum. 

Car1980

Read the Newbies and Defence Template sticky threads.

Northampton is the central bulk paperwork centre. Eventually the case will be transferred to YOUR local court.

DCB Legal have no intention of going to a court hearing and will discontinue the case in the autumn as long as you defend and follow all the steps. First step is to log-in (you'll need to setup a Government Gateway account if you don't have one) and file the acknowledgment of service which extends your defence deadline to 28 days.

It's a bit of a trek from either Chorley or Runcorn to the south coast and not much profit in it for them for £262. They file a thousand of these each week.

Coupon-mad

Come on, don't be daunted, you do not need a solicitor (whose costs you cannot recoup) to simply use the already written template defence for DCB ParkingEye claims!

It's linked in the first post of the Template Defence thread. You could not ask for an easier thing to do. It's simpler than appealing.