Court claim for 2023 PCN

abitdisabled

Hi,

Hopefully someone can assist.

Received a letter of claim from DCB Legal saying they wanted £170 for a pcn from 3 years ago.

This was the first letter I had received regarding this so I probably foolishly phoned them asking what this was about.

Lady on the phone said it was for non payment of parking somewhere I honestly can’t remember having ever been to.

On their letter it said insufficient time paid. So after asking again she said it was insufficient time paid.
I asked what evidence there was of and she emailed me 2 photos of my vehicle that anyone of 4 people could have been driving but none of us can remember going there and it’s not clear from the pictures who is.
Pictures say there was an overstay of 18 minutes and I found out that the parking cost 70p an hour.

She went on to say I was liable as keeper and would I like to pay them £170 or possibly be taken to court.

I declined and that ended the conversation.

I now have a Claim form from Civil national business centre Northampton with a county court stamp on asking for £298.31

Am I stuffed here or do I have a response to this?

I’ve looked through the pinned posts about this but I’m still a bit confused and not certain what would apply if anything.

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Thanks for reading and helping if possible.

Gr1pr

You defend yourself

Name the private parking company claimant involved and post te issue date from the top right of the claim form below

Post a redacted picture of the POC from the lower left of the claim form below after hiding the VRM details first

Check your V5c to make sure that your current details are correct

abitdisabled

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Thanks for the reply

The company is Smart Parking Limited

Issue date is 13 May 2026

I’ve attached the POC

I sold the car on 11th of August 2025 and I know the details are correct.

Gr1pr

Login to MCOL via your government gateway account and complete the AOS online stage ASAP, details in the 8 steps in the defence template thread in announcements near the top of the forum

Then copy and paste the template defence by member meltof posted on 12th April into the defence box on MCOL, save it and submit it

Coupon-mad

Selling the car is irrelevant.

Defending these is dead easy!

Just click on the username @Meltof

Copy their version of a Smart Parking final defence posted on April 12th.

No changes. No added facts.

Don't copy & paste it here as we really don't want to keep being asked to check this defence in thread after thread in May, which is driving us regulars a bit mad with this current Smart Parking batch!

Literally read any Smart thread…

Then follow the 8 steps in the Template Defence thread. Easy peasy. It'll be discontinued just before the hearing fee falls due in the Autumn/Winter.

You won't pay a penny.

Le_Kirk

With an issue date of 13/05/26 and providing you complete(d) the AoS before or on 01/06/26 your defence deadline date is 4.00 p.m. on 15/06/26

Coupon-mad

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6669165/court-claim-for-2023-pcn

Did you get the defence in?