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Parkmaven DCB Legal claim now defended

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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 29 December 2025 at 1:52PM
    See you in 6 months when you get a local court hearing date. No posts about the standard first letters, tedious solicitors email, N180 form or Mediation please. Spare us, thanks! See the 8 steps.
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  • Coupon-mad
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    P.S. please edit your thread title to

    Parkmaven DCB Legal claim now defended
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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 2:30PM
    Do you want to discontinue your counterclaim though? Was it strongly pleaded in law?

    What's in it for you? Looks like there is nothing of any value to you in this idea, given that you knew all along that DCB Legal will discontinue the claim itself anyway.
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  • Coupon-mad
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 4:02PM
    Depends how robust your counterclaim was and what exactly you pleaded for ... I never read back on threads, I just hop in & out!
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  • Gr1pr
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 3:54PM
    Smickster75 said:
    I claimed for a day off to go to court and travelling costs £250
    Defendants dont counterclaim or pay for those,  they add a fee costs assessment in with the Witness Statement bundle before the hearing date,  if it gets that far 

    Nobody mentioned adding a counterclaim to your defence submission in the replies in this thread 
  • Coupon-mad
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    Smickster75 said:
    I claimed for a day off to go to court and travelling costs £250 in total.
    If they are offering to close the claim that's a win for me. 
    Just surprised it came so quick.
    Oh dear.

    A doomed and totally unnecessary counterclaim. You wasted your £35 because those costs could have been obtained at a hearing anyway. You don't counterclaim.
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  • Smickster75
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    Oh ok. Does this change anything from what they are offering? 
  • Smickster75
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    Does the £35 not get returned?
  • Coupon-mad
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    No. Your cc needs withdrawing. We'd never have told you to do it. Money down the drain!
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  • Smickster75
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    edited 30 December 2025 at 4:06PM
    OK so no counter claim no refund and no idea if they are offering to close the case ?
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