Parking Ticket - Court Letter Received

PC_MANC

Guys, I really appreciate your patience and I will reach the finish line! 👀

How about this for no.3 and if you say I've missed the untruth, I give up! I read the thread you sent @Coupon-mad and added it. I've also shortened.

3.1 Regarding the Particulars of Claim paragraph 3, The Claimant has never used the POFA 2012 and has never been able to hold registered keepers liable, so the solicitor signatory of the statement of truth on this claim is misleading the court by citing that law. Due to the length of time, the Defendant has no recollection of the day in question but thinks they disputed a PCN around that time. Smart Parking then did nothing except adding £70 (that was not on their signs) which rewards them for sitting on their hands, because their share of that 'fee' after being split with the bulk litigator - in cases with default judgments or frightened Defendants just paying the lot - sees this Claimant receive far more than face value of a legacy £100 PCN that was stored for 4 years.

3.2 Further, regarding the Particulars of Claim paragraph 4, research has proved that this Claimant has never used the POFA 2012 and has never been able to hold registered keepers liable. This is important because the solicitor signatory of the statement of truth on this claim is knowingly or negligently misleading the court by citing that law. Despite tens of thousands of boilerplate claims from DCB Legal causing inflated default CCJs this year – as they have reportedly filed a ‘job lot’ of template bulk claims for this Claimant, all repeating the untruth about the POFA 2012 – Smart Parking has no cause of action against any registered keeper

Coupon-mad

Great!

I'd remove this because it duplicates the new paragraph you added, so you don't need it:

"Regarding the Particulars of Claim paragraph 3, The Claimant has never used the POFA 2012 and has never been able to hold registered keepers liable, so the solicitor signatory of the statement of truth on this claim is misleading the court by citing that law."

PC_MANC

Thank you for the support!!

PC_MANC

I submitted my defence on 15/09/2025. I've been checking MCOL, but there haven't been any updates yet. Is this normal?

Gr1pr

Very normal,  these cases can take up to a year from the issue date,  to a hearing or a discontinuation 

Keep checking your MCOL claim history weekly for the next couple of months,  but you are waiting for it to show that they have posted your N180 DQ document,  then keep following the 12 steps 

I would think that it currently shows that your defence was logged on that date

PC_MANC

Thank you.

Up to a year! Imagine how many people forget to check! 🙈

Gr1pr

It will probably stay within the MCOL system for around 3 months,  then it's transferred to your local civil court for processing,  it's certainly never quick, but then neither are criminal cases either 

So most of the time it's with your local civil court 

Le_Kirk

PC_MANC said:

I submitted my defence on 15/09/2025. I've been checking MCOL, but there haven't been any updates yet. Is this normal?

Presumably it does show receipt of your defence!

PC_MANC

Hi guys, I've now had a response back.

Good Afternoon

Having reviewed the content of your defence, we write to inform you that our client intends to proceed with the claim.

In due course, the Court will direct both parties to each file a directions questionnaire. In preparation for that, please find attached a copy of the Claimant's, which we confirm has been filed with the Court.

Without Prejudice to the above, in order to assist the Court in achieving its overriding objective, our client may be prepared to settle this case - in the event you wish to discuss settlement, please call us on 0203 434 0433 within 7 days and make immediate reference to this correspondence.

If you have provided an email address within your Defence, we intend to use it for service of documents (usually in PDF format) hereon in pursuant to PD 6A (4.1)(2)(c). Please advise whether there are any limitations to this (for example, the format in which documents are to be sent and the maximum size of attachments that may be received). Unless you advise otherwise, we will assume not.

 

Kind Regards,

Litigation Support Team

DCB Legal Ltd

Gr1pr

Standard stuff,  as described in the 8 steps in the defence template thread in announcements