SMART PARKING, DCB LEGAL court claim 2025

tir21

Coupon-mad said:

Anyone can say those words on behalf of the Defendant.

Or the Defendant can, which is the norm of course. It's only a two minute call!

Or nobody bothers to answer and nothing is affected. It is sooooo unimportant.

So are you saying this letter can be ignored?

Coupon-mad

No, reply with a phone number but (just so you know) not answering the call affects NOTHING and that info is not passed on to a judge.

But if it were me, I'd answer it and ask why they are wasting her time!

I can't wait to tell a mediator what a scam industry and hopeless case they're supporting.

They are likely to be intelligent people, so surely they must have realised by now and feel ashamed of what they do on behalf of parking claimants (because their job is to make the Defendant fold and pay). If the penny hasn't dropped it flipping well should have by now. I'd be personally embarrassed about my role, if I was them in a parking case. 

Honestly - stand up and be counted - the message needs to filter through to that publicly funded court service until they can't ignore the noise and the common theme with parking cases and start talking about the problem in every meeting they have with management.

tir21

Is it unusual for it to get to this stage? We were hoping for it to be over by now

Gr1pr

Not unusual, standard stuff, part of the long process as mentioned in the 8 steps in the defence template thread in announcements

Any discontinuation comes just before the hearing fee deadline date in several months time

6 to 12 months from the claim form issue date is the norm

You should be researching the over 800 cases in the thread by Umkomaas

Coupon-mad

Yes, if you think this is unusual please re-read the 8 steps. It is normal. Every case goes waaaay further than this tedious call.