HMCTS claim form

Diggydigdig

Hi guys 
i need your help regarding this matter 

October 2023, I received a parking charge notice for allegedly parking in a disabled bay without displaying a valid Blue Badge. However, I am a genuine Blue Badge holder and had not my badge displayed at the time. I promptly appealed the charge and provided clear photographic evidence of the valid Blue Badge. Despite this, I received no response or decision on my appeal from UKPC.

To my surprise, months later I received a letter from DCB Debt Recovery claiming I now owed £170. Upon contacting them, I was informed that UKPC had supposedly sent me an email in December 2023, offering to resolve the matter with a reduced payment of £20 as a goodwill gesture. I did not receive this email, and this was the first time I was made aware of such an offer. Furthermore, such communication should have been sent via post, especially for a legal matter.

I immediately called DCB and they asked me to pay £10 to put this matter on hold meanwhile i can appeal against it so i sent several emails and written appeals to DCB Debt Recovery, requesting clarification and asking for a fair resolution. I received no replies, and instead, today I have received a County Court Claim stating I owe £236, which includes legal and court fees. This is deeply unfair and disproportionate considering the original fine was £80 and I acted responsibly by appealing in good faith.

What should i do ? Please anyone have ane experience regarding this , share your experiences 

Gr1pr

Presumably this is UKPC via DCB Legal   ?

Post the Issue date from the top right of the claim form below 

Also post a redacted picture of the POC from the lower left of the claim form below after hiding the VRM details first 

Diggydigdig

How do i post the picture ? Im attaching the file here but it is saying body is 9 character too short what does that mean ? 

Issue date of the claim form is 11th july 2025

Diggydigdig

This is the letter i got in post yesterday

Gr1pr

OK,  study the second post in the newbies sticky thread in announcements near the top of the forum by coupon mad

Login to your government gateway account and navigate to MCOL and login with the claim reference number and password 

Complete the AOS online,  then logout again 

Then start drafting your defence based on the template defence by coupon mad in announcements at the top of the forum 

Ps, you left your password showing due to not redacting it first,  I only asked for the section on the left of the claim form 

Diggydigdig

Can you please send me the link here please
im new here , i cant find it

Gr1pr

Sorry but we dont link announcements 

Go to the main forum, find and click on the Parking tickets, fines and parking forum, scroll down slightly,  then study the NEWBIES announcement second post in the 4th thread down from the top, plus study the Template defence announcement too , right at the top 

Coupon-mad

Diggydigdig said:

Hi guys 
i need your help regarding this matter 

October 2023, I received a parking charge notice for allegedly parking in a disabled bay without displaying a valid Blue Badge. However, I am a genuine Blue Badge holder and had not my badge displayed at the time. I promptly appealed the charge and provided clear photographic evidence of the valid Blue Badge. Despite this, I received no response or decision on my appeal from UKPC.

To my surprise, months later I received a letter from DCB Debt Recovery claiming I now owed £170. Upon contacting them, I was informed that UKPC had supposedly sent me an email in December 2023, offering to resolve the matter with a reduced payment of £20 as a goodwill gesture. I did not receive this email, and this was the first time I was made aware of such an offer. Furthermore, such communication should have been sent via post, especially for a legal matter.

I immediately called DCB and they asked me to pay £10 to put this matter on hold meanwhile i can appeal against it so i sent several emails and written appeals to DCB Debt Recovery, requesting clarification and asking for a fair resolution. I received no replies, and instead, today I have received a County Court Claim stating I owe £236, which includes legal and court fees.

This is deeply unfair and disproportionate considering the original fine was £80 and I acted responsibly by appealing in good faith.

What should i do ? Please anyone have ane experience regarding this , share your experiences 

Can you explain this bit in bold? It's a new scam layer; we've never seen this.

Did you pay £10? Who to? How?

To clarify:

You're saying that DCB Ltd (not DCB Legal?) demanded £10 from a disabled Blue Badge holder to 'put the case on hold' then they seem to have pretended to be 'considering' a valid dispute from you ... a dispute that any defendant is fully entitled to raise under the pre-action protocol and certainly doesn't have to pay for!

Coupon-mad

Diggydigdig said:

This is the letter i got in post yesterday

Diggydigdig said:

Hi guys 
i need your help regarding this matter 

October 2023, I received a parking charge notice for allegedly parking in a disabled bay without displaying a valid Blue Badge. However, I am a genuine Blue Badge holder and had not my badge displayed at the time. I promptly appealed the charge and provided clear photographic evidence of the valid Blue Badge. Despite this, I received no response or decision on my appeal from UKPC.

To my surprise, months later I received a letter from DCB Debt Recovery claiming I now owed £170. Upon contacting them, I was informed that UKPC had supposedly sent me an email in December 2023, offering to resolve the matter with a reduced payment of £20 as a goodwill gesture. I did not receive this email, and this was the first time I was made aware of such an offer. Furthermore, such communication should have been sent via post, especially for a legal matter.

I immediately called DCB and they asked me to pay £10 to put this matter on hold meanwhile i can appeal against it so i sent several emails and written appeals to DCB Debt Recovery, requesting clarification and asking for a fair resolution. I received no replies, and instead, today I have received a County Court Claim stating I owe £236, which includes legal and court fees.

This is deeply unfair and disproportionate considering the original fine was £80 and I acted responsibly by appealing in good faith.

What should i do ? Please anyone have ane experience regarding this , share your experiences 

Can you explain this bit in bold? It's a new scam layer; we've never seen this.

Did you pay £10? Who to? How?

To clarify:

You're saying that DCB Ltd (not DCB Legal?) demanded £10 from a disabled Blue Badge holder to 'put the case on hold' then they seem to have pretended to be 'considering' a valid dispute from you ... a dispute that any defendant is fully entitled to raise under the pre-action protocol and certainly doesn't have to pay for!

Please can we hear more?

Please tell us you managed to defend this claim?