CCJ sent to my old address - Set aside application and fee payments

cappy182

Hi all,

I received a CCJ to an old address from G24 ltd regarding a parking event in May 2025. 

I was able to collect my old mail from my previous address included the POC and all threatenings mails from DCBL Baliffs.

After reading the NEWBIES posts and related subthreads, I prepared a letter for DCBL to set aside the court judgment and sent to them by email. 

I’ve used the template from the post of troublemaker22 on the thread “Out of the Blue: CCJ Debt letter (for an alleged pcn) – dcbl (/UK Parking Control ltd)”.

I’ve changed a few things since my situation is slightly different:

- I only realised about the CCJ checking the credit score on my bank account. 

• I’ve never received any communication regarding the parking event, including the original PCN, letter of claim and claim forms from the court (CNBC) to the new address. 
• The claimant is G24 Ltd which is member of the ICP and not BPA

Other important information for context:

• alleged parked event happened in May 2025
• I changed address in July 2025
• Updated address on 27th August 2025
• Court paper sent to old address on 21/11/25 and CCJ letter on the 11/12/25

IMPORTANT: DBCL issued me two more debt collection letters (3 Dec and 31st Dec 2025) from a more recent PCN (July 2025) at my new address from the same car park company G24. All the initial communication of the second PCN were sent to the old address instead and they magically found my new one. For this reason I've submitted a SAR request to G24. 

The following is the letter I’ve sent to the solicitors DCB Legal as they are the legal representatives of G24.

URGENT
Dear Sirs,
G24 LTD (THE ‘CLAIMANT’)  V XXX CLAIM REFERENCE xxxx
On the 6th January 2026, I realised that a CCJ had been sent to my old address after checking my credit score through my bank account.  
After collecting the old mail from that address I found a letter dated 11th December 2025 from HM Courts & Tribunals Service.
This came as a tremendous shock as it is the first and only communication I have received from G24 Ltd or any organisation representing the Claimant in relation to this claim.   
I made immediate enquiries of the CNBC from which I was able to establish that:
1.       the claim relates to an alleged parking event in May 2025;
2.       the claim form was sent to an old address at which I no longer reside; and
3.       if I had been given the opportunity to do so, I would have successfully defended the claim.
I did not receive any pre-claim correspondence, not even a letter of claim as required by the PAP. Nor did I receive the claim form or any particulars of claim and was thus deprived of the ability to defend the claim. The Claimant is well aware that people move home from time to time. They also know that I did not respond to any communications sent to me at my old address.
This situation is explicitly dealt with in the Civil Procedure Rules which provide at CPR 6.9(3):
 (3) Where a claimant has reason to believe that the address of the defendant … is an address at which the defendant no longer resides or carries on business, the claimant must take reasonable steps to ascertain the address of the defendant’s current residence or place of business (‘current address’).
If the Claimant had taken the actions required by the Civil Procedure Rules and the Code of Practice, my current address would have been found easily. If those actions had been performed at the correct time rather than after judgment, I would not have been deprived of the ability to defend the claim.
By reason of the Claimant’s breach of the Civil Procedure Rules, which amounts to an abuse of the process of the Court, the claim form was never properly served and the judgment must be set aside at the Claimant’s expense and the claim dismissed because it is now too late for the particulars of claim to be re-served.
In view of the foregoing, I invite the Claimant to join with me in an application to set aside the judgment and dismiss the claim, with the Claimant paying the court fee and no order as to costs.
Please respond to the above offer as soon as possible so that, if the offer is acceptable to the Claimant, we can work together to right the wrong that the Claimant has done to me.
To give you a reasonable time to take instructions and for us to agree a suite of documents for the Court, I am willing to defer making a unilateral application to set aside the judgment until 4 pm on 31 January 2026. If a joint application has not been made by that time, I intend to instruct a solicitor to apply to the Court unilaterally for an order setting the judgment aside, striking out the particulars of claim, dismissing the claim and awarding costs against the Claimant on a full indemnity basis.
Pease respond by immediate return.
Yours faithfully,

From what I’ve understood by reading the information on the forum, if DCLegal does not respond within 2 weeks time, I will need to apply for a set aside with N224 form and pay the fee. 

I would appreciate any advice on the matter and how to proceed from now on. 

Especially regarding how to redact the WS, Defence and claiming back the costs.

Thank you!

Coupon-mad

You aren't doing a defence.

You will be doing a N244 with WS proving your address change and a Draft Order (what you want the judge to order at your hearing) which includes setting aside the CCJ, striking out the claim for failure to serve it within 4 months, and awarding your costs to be paid by the C.

You'll be relying on VCS v Carr and Mazur v Speechlys. Search the forum for a 2025 CCJ case with those authorities cited. Copy! 

cappy182

Hi,

thanks for your support. 

I've been doing my research on this forum and there are lot of information that I have to put together for my N244 application.

I followed the instructions and drafted that letter by troublemaker22 (Out of the Blue:CCJ Debt letter for pcn) and sent to the solicitors (DCBL), but I haven't received any answers yet and it's been already two weeks since then.

I'd like to proceed with the set aside within this week as stated in that letter I've sent to them. 

I found out that I can do the application online on this website 'MoneyClaimOnline' linked to HM Courts&Tribunal. 
A friend of mine suggested me to do this way because she had to fight a CCJ for a car park a few months ago and she managed to do it through this website. 

On the website there are different sections, and the first one it's about the Draft Order that you mentioned before I guess 

You'll be relying on VCS v Carr and Mazur v Speechlys. Search the forum for a 2025 CCJ case with those authorities cited. Copy! 

I'm preparing the set aside based on these threads. Is there one in particular that I should look into it related to my case? 

I'll try to post the Draft order and WS within Thursday.

Thanks again 

Coupon-mad

We don't have a particular thread in mind but a forum search for that case law plus the words CCJ set aside will find one.