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  • didgeridoooo
    didgeridoooo Posts: 366 Forumite
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    PS, the thing which worries me about doing a Costs Schedule is the messy issue of my situation, namely that I am not on a paid salary, I work for myself (and currently earning very little, no hourly rates that I can quote or prove). It's sure cost me a fortune in lost time and therefore, indirectly, earnings, but it's impossible to quantify it with a £ figure. I thought I may just have to forego LiP costs, other than travel, postage and anything I have receipts for. So when I saw £19 per hour rates for LIP costs, I wasn't sure if that was only if time taken off work, or just a flat rate for time spent on the case. I have spent many hours (perhaps 100, I will check my notes as I noted some of the time down) but I doubt I can claim for that. I will read some past cases to see if anyone else was self-employed without an hourly rate.
    Combatting the pandemic of BWLegal-19, one 'notice of discontinuance' at a time. :-)
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 131,754 Forumite
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    In yours shoes, go for the LiP rate in a BIG way then, but to get that you have to be able to demonstrate that the C has acted 'wholly unreasonably' which is a HIGH BAR to meet.

    Search the forum for costs indemnity unreasonableness to find one who succeeded.
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  • didgeridoooo
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    Thanks CM, I will do that. I need to read a few of those types of threads anyway to find out roughly what sort of hours people claim, and I am sure I have spent many more times as many hours than most, but then they did choose to sue ME didn't they, so it shouldn't matter but i am sure it does!
    Combatting the pandemic of BWLegal-19, one 'notice of discontinuance' at a time. :-)
  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 131,754 Forumite
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    I think one of the example Costs Schedules is sassii's one, who got over £1500.
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  • didgeridoooo
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    WOW! Will certainly have a read of that one then! A one off I am sure, but what a great result!
    Combatting the pandemic of BWLegal-19, one 'notice of discontinuance' at a time. :-)
  • The_Deep
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    Do not forget to count your time on here.
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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 131,754 Forumite
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    It will be fine to put N/A.
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  • Coupon-mad
    Coupon-mad Posts: 131,754 Forumite
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    edited 31 October 2019 at 4:22PM
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    Yes but the Prankster Blogs show you Truro can be OK. You haven't read them yet! i posted links minutes ago, on this thread about another PPC, Armtrac in the west Country:

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=76444023#post76444023

    Bodmin might be better though. Hard to be sure, as the Judges might have sussed Premier Park by now at either of them, or might be clueless...
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  • Umkomaas
    Umkomaas Posts: 41,357 Forumite
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    Check with the ICO, get it from the horse's mouth.
    Please note, we are not a legal advice forum. I personally don't get involved in critiquing court case Defences/Witness Statements, so unable to help on that front. Please don't ask. .

    I provide only my personal opinion, it is not a legal opinion, it is simply a personal one. I am not a lawyer.

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  • nosferatu1001
    nosferatu1001 Posts: 12,961 Forumite
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    didgeridoooo wrote: »
    Quick question which just occurred to me after receiving another SAR pack from BW Illegal - I have had a few of these now and they contain most stuff, but NEVER any communications between BWL and the PPCs. Am I right in thinking a DPA request should include all data they hold which "pertains to me", so that should include their letters/emails/phone recordings where I have even been discussed. I was hoping to see emails between BWL and PPC with fun stuff like "Let's go get him, see if he falls for this...." :D



    Just wondered whether I should query that or whether they never do it or don't have to?
    Legally Privileged
    Look it up
    Any discussion between a lawyer and their client that meets this definition you will never see, unless they decide to show it.
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