Thread: Council has taken me to Court and won ( and I dint know!)

Dear all,
This is the ultimate: BAck in 2007 I was moving house and my residents permit had run out. I used visitirs permiits that I had left for the few last days. One of them , every day , i would go out at night and put it on my dashboard. One morning , i found a ticket "for not displaying a permit". Amused, I wrote to the Council and explained my predicament , sent them copies of all the counterslips of the visitor's permit booklet as proof that I had put one each day for 6 days. They never got back to me i moved house but had all the mail forwarded to my new address for a whole year. 16 months from the alleged offence , i get a letter from some bailiffs saying they are comin if I dont pay over 300 £ for the abovementioned penalty !! I called the COuncil and they deny ever receiving any letter, they dsay they took me to Court ( and won) and hence I have to pay penalty , Court fee and bailiffs !!! I tell them I have nevger ever received anything from them , let alone from Court , and they say nothing to do with them , and told me to fill in an statutory declaration , which I have done , and has not been taken into consideration by the Court. What do I do ? How come the Court never contacted me ? How come that this has gone directly to the bailiffs? Are they taking the **** ???? Help !!!!