DCB Legal offering settlement

Coupon-mad

Yep looks good.

Greekgoddess27

Thank you @Coupon-mad @Gr1pr @Le_Kirk do you think it is worth making a counter claim as the system gives me the option to do so? I have wasted a lot of time with this, especially when you take into account given the fact there were no signs on the site. Has anybody tried to make a counter claim in similar cases?

Gr1pr

Some people have counter claimed , which is a minimum of £35 up front, usually for data issues or similar, rarely for stress and harassment because its a high bar requiring proof like medical notes or something similar

Most cases do not have a counter claim due to no legal grounds, no cause of action

Coupon-mad

A counter claim is not needed to recoup costs. They are a different thing.

Greekgoddess27

Just writing with an update. DCB Legal wrote to me and said they were going to carry on with the claim despite the fact they know I have pictures of the area which were taken before all the signs were put up. They asked me to call them but I could not get through. I now have received the Notice of Proposed Allocation to the Small Claims Track from the courts, any advice how to handle? I need to submit it by 12th June

Gr1pr

Standard stuff

Follow the advice in the 8 steps in the defence template thread in announcements near the top of the forum

When your local civil court write to you, follow the important section in the 2nd post in the newbies sticky thread in announcements near the top of the forum

Jame4ters

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82028959#Comment_82028959

Don’t try calling them. You will be wasting your time

Coupon-mad

"have received the Notice of Proposed Allocation to the Small Claims Track from the courts, any advice how to handle?"

You seem to have forgotten those 8 steps you were following!

🙂

Car1980

"DCB Legal wrote to me and said they were going to carry on with the claim despite the fact they know I have pictures of the area which were taken before all the signs were put up."

I think you mean they sent you the template "we have read your defence and intend to proceed" letter.

They haven't read your defence (500 a week is a lot of reading!) and you are nothing more than a line on a spreadsheet. Nobody there knows or cares about your pictures because they intend to discontinue after attempting to get something - anything - out of you.

Greekgoddess27

hello all, I have my mediation call tomorrow morning, any advice?