Missed documents

steadings555

Hi.

I have not been in the country for the past few months and received letters from DCB Legal with the parking company being park maven.

DCB Legal sent a "Letter of Claim" on 12 December 2025 which I was not able to respond to.

I recevied a "claim form" dated 23 Jan.

There is also a judgement order dated 17 feb 2026 asking for a lot of money

I am panicking right now so if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated. Is it too late to do anything about this?

Thanks.

Coupon-mad

Log into your Government Gateway Account NOW and see when judgment was made.

steadings555

The judgement was made 17 feb.

steadings555

It looks like my options are to pay them now to avoid it going on my credit report or apply to set aside but the cost for that is similar to paying the claim so I would just be doing it out of principle at the expense of a lot of effort and possibly still paying the claim.

The timing is ridiculously lucky on their part.

Coupon-mad

What a shame nobody was opening your post while you were gone so long! As you presumably knew you had a PCN with DCB and were likely to be sued, we would never have told you to (effectively) put your fingers in your ears and ignore all post for 3 months.

This CCJ was bound to happen.

But you are where you are, so you have time to decide whether to make a lower offer to settle this week or whether to file the usual N244 application to set aside the CCJ.

What was the PCN issued for, and where/why?

steadings555

They actually started posting to a different address for some reason rather than the address linked to my car. I was keeping tabs of the post sent to my car address.

Probably also could try to set aside for that but still not an ideal position.

steadings555

It was issued because I was waiting inside university premises but I was not in a parking bay I was just waiting outside a building so I never saw any parking signs. So they would have had no way to prove I broke any contract as far as I could tell that's why I followed advice on here to ignore the letters however it seems they got away with it this time.

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81905979#Comment_81905979

There is a third option - given they used a wrong address - which could see it settled this week for far less money.

I'll send you a pm.

Coupon-mad

Good news update:

Case settled for £1 by consent. No CCJ.