Claim Form issued by DCB Legal ltd after being fined by Total Parking Solutions. I'm not driver.

speeddemonn

Exciting update….

Called the court this morning and the court fee was never paid by the claimant, so hearing discontinued!

I'll look out for the N279 discontinuation document in my inbox and spam folder.

Thanks for everyone's help and support with this, much appreciated.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81859804#Comment_81859804

Yay!

Please force the discontinuance by emailing DCB Legal threatening to seek costs as they are in breach of the hearing order, and of course requiring a copy of their NoD.

speeddemonn

N279 Notice of discontinuance now recieved.

Where do I need to upload this? 😊

Thanks.

Gr1pr

Attach a redacted picture of it to this thread, below

speeddemonn

N279 notice of Discontinuance.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81880315#Comment_81880315

Woohoo! There you go. Thankyou!

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

Calling @Umkomaas

😃

Umkomaas

Thank you @speeddemonn for the copy of your NoD . I can now get this counted in the DCBL Legal thread of shame. 👍

Driver62

The same lot were taking me to court. I called their bluff — my case was solid so it wasn’t really a gamble. During the mediation call they tried to get me to accept a 50% reduction, which I refused.

I then sent a letter to the District Judge with a breakdown of my costs to date (over £1,000, which I know is more than the court can normally award) and explained that I expected the claimant to discontinue at the last minute, wasting the court’s time and mediation resources. I asked the court to consider awarding costs under CPR 27.14(2)(g), as advised on this forum.

The trial was listed for 13th March. I had until 20th February to file my evidence and witness statement, and they had until 13th February to pay the £27 hearing fee. I already had my evidence pack ready, so I sent it immediately and copied in DCB Legal using every email address they had used.

I emailed the court yesterday and they confirmed the fee had not been paid, so the trial has been vacated.

I actually wanted my day in court, but I’m now looking forward to hopefully recovering some of my costs.

I’ve also set up a Facebook group to inform motorists who previously paid charges at this car park — where there is no entrance signage — that they can request refunds under Version 9 of the BPA Code of Practice, Clause 23.4(c), if new evidence shows the charge was incorrectly enforced.

If I’m awarded the £750 the court is able to grant, I plan to use part of it to personally reimburse some of the motorists who were caught out by these scammers by returning their £60. I’ll then take on their cases myself and help them pursue full refunds from the parking company.

Coupon-mad

Have you got a costs hearing? The court will forget you now the hearing is vacated.