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    • They did reply to my defence stating it would fail and enclosed copies of NOA, DN Term letter and account statements. All copies of T&C's that could be reconstructions and the IP address on there resolves to the town where MBNA offices are, not my location
    • My defence was standard no paperwork:   1.The Defendant contends that the particulars of claim are generic in nature. The Defendant accordingly sets out its case below and relies on CPR r 16.5 (3) in relation to any particular allegation to which a specific response has not been made. 2. Paragraph 1 is noted. The Defendant has had a contractual relationship with MBNA Limited in the past. The Defendant does not recognise the reference number provided by the claimant within its particulars and has sought verification from the claimant who is yet to comply with requests for further information. 3. Paragraph 2 is denied. The Defendant maintains that a default notice was never received. The Claimant is put to strict proof to that a default notice was issued by MBNA Limited and received by the Defendant. 4. Paragraph 3 is denied. The Defendant is unaware of any legal assignment or Notice of Assignment allegedly served from either the Claimant or MBNA Limited. 5. On the 02/01/2023 the Defendant requested information pertaining to this claim by way of a CCA 1974 Section 78 request. The claimant is yet to respond to this request. On the 19/05/2023 a CPR 31.14 request was sent to Kearns who is yet to respond. To date, 02/06/2023, no documentation has been received. The claimant remains in default of my section 78 request. 6. It is therefore denied with regards to the Defendant owing any monies to the Claimant, the Claimant has failed to provide any evidence of proof of assignment being sent/ agreement/ balance/ breach or termination requested by CPR 31.14, therefore the Claimant is put to strict proof to: (a) show how the Defendant entered into an agreement; and (b) show and evidence the nature of breach and service of a default notice pursuant to Section 87(1) CCA1974 (c) show how the claimant has reached the amount claimed for; and (d) show how the Claimant has the legal right, either under statute or equity to issue a claim; 7. As per Civil Procedure Rule 16.5(4), it is expected that the Claimant prove the allegation that the money is owed. 8. On the alternative, as the Claimant is an assignee of a debt, it is denied that the Claimant has the right to lay a claim due to contraventions of Section 136 of the Law of Property Act and Section 82A of the consumer credit Act 1974. 9. By reasons of the facts and matters set out above, it is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief.
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    • In order for us to help you we require the following information:- [if there are more than one defendant listed - tell us] 1 defendant   Which Court have you received the claim from ? County Court Business Centre, Northampton   Name of the Claimant ? LC Asset 2 S.A R.L   Date of issue – . 28/04/23   Particulars of Claim   What is the claim for –    (1) The Claimant ('C') claims the whole of the outstanding balance due and payable under an agreement referenced xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and opened effective from xx/xx/2017. The agreement is regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ('CCA'), was signed by the Defendant ('D') and from which credit was extended to D.   (2) D failed to comply with a Default Notice served pursuant to s87 (1) CCA and by xx/xx/2022 a default was recorded.   (3) As at xx/xx/2022 the Defendant owed MBNA LTD the sum of 12,xxx.xx. By an agreement in writing the benefit of the debt has been legally assigned to C effective xx/xx/2022 and made regular upon C serving a Notice of Assignment upon D shortly thereafter.   (4) And C claims- 1. 12,xxx.xx 2. Interest pursuant to Section 69 County Courts Act 1984 at a rate of 8% per annum from xx/01/2023 to xx/04/2023 of 2xx.xx and thereafter at a daily rate of 2.52 to date of judgement or sooner payment. Date xx/xx/2023   What is the total value of the claim? 12k   Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? Yes   Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No   Did you inform the claimant of your change of address? N/A Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? Credit Card   When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? After   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? Online   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ? Yes, but amount differs slightly   Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim. DP issued claim   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? Not that I recall...   Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? Not that I recall...   Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ? Yes   Why did you cease payments? Loss of employment main cause   What was the date of your last payment? Early 2021   Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? No   Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No   -----------------------------------
    • Hello CAG Team, I'm adding the contents of the claim to this thread, but wanted to open the thread with an urgent question: Do I have to supply a WS for a claim with a court date that states " at the hearing the court will consider allocation and, time permitting, give an early neutral evaluation of the case" ? letter is an N24 General Form of Judgement or Order, if so, then I've messed up again. Court date 25 May 2024 The letter from court does not state (like the other claims I have) that I must provide WS within 28 days.. BUT I have recently received a WS from Link for it! making me think I do need to!??
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Sent a letter requesting refund of Arrears fees for an old mortgage account since paid off and closed.

They charges me £50 per month 'Arrears fee' and £30 twice for two Direct Debits which did not go through. Having spent lots of time reading though cases and faqs decided to start process to get money back.

 

129/3 Sent nice letter asking for money back - no reply

14/4 Sent LBA - no reply

2/5 Sent reminder no reply

7/5 issued money claim

10/5 Acknowlegement of service received from GMAC with intention to defend!

 

Bit worried -seems like you have to get to drastic action before prompting any kind of response. has anyone dealt with these guys before?

Any advice welcome.

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3/6/06 Received defence from GE. they have engaged solicitors Eversheds and are defending based on contract and the 'terms of agreement' mentions the tariff of charges and 'the company's right to recover it's costs and expenses'.

 

They deny that the arrears fees and unpaid direct debit fees constitute "penalties" They also state that whether or not the law on penalties applies, each of the fees reflected a genuine pre-estimate of loss in terms of the cost to the defendant.

 

They also deny fees were unreasonable and keep harping back to the pre estimate ploy mentioned above. defence runs to 8 pages!

 

Has anyone else had this. help needed here as it may go all the way. 28 days for defence was up 4th June so no hearing date yet.

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P.S the claim is for arrears fees of £50 each and bounced DD's total of £952.28

 

I cannot see how it is not going to cost them that to defend!

 

Any guidance would be gratefully received.

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All seems to be going according to plan. Expect them to settle sometime before the Allocation Questionairre deadline.

Robertxc v. Abbey - £3300 Settled in full

Robertxc v. Clydesdale - £750 Settled in full

Nationwide v. Robertxc - £2000 overdraft wiped out, Default removed by order of the sheriff

Robertxc v. Style Card - Default removed by order of the sheriff

Robertxc v. Abbey (1) - Data Protection Act action. £750 compensation

Robertxc v. Abbey (2) - Data Protection Act action. £2000 compensation, default removed

 

The opinions on this post are those of Robertxc and not necessarily the opinions of the group and do not constitute sound legal advice. You are advised to seek professional legal advice.

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Nothing so far from GMAC. Have sent in allocation doc.s so I guess now we go to hearing date. Getting a little more worried as i have not come accross any other posts this far with GMAC. Any help very much needed!!!

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Hi Sandy

 

Just read your posts, I too was with GMAC and as I recall they charged me £50 a month for being inarrears. It cost me £2,200 penalty to get out of mortgage back in April. I was told it was fixed penalty for only 2 years then I found out it was 3 years. Any way I will send a DPA and see where that gets me.

 

Good Luck and I will follow your posts.

Abbey National - Prelim Letter sent / LBA sent 10th August.

Capital One - Data Protection Act S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) sent - Offered £428 - Refused. Statement received Actual charges £1060. M/C ISSUED PAID IN FULL I WON

GMAC Redmption Penalty - Letter sent requesting full detailed explaination of charges/exspense and penalty charges received

Yorkshire Bank/Visa - Data Protection Act S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) sent. Visa Prelim sent £235. No statements as yet for Bank Account.

 

This site has been so helpfull I will donate to keep it running to help others. :p

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hello Sandy

GMAC ???? well we were with them until 21st april this year.

(see reposession/PPI/early settlemt) my post in the mortgage board?

 

Would love to know how you get on

They were charging us £39.00 per day interest on our arrears plus £50.00 per d/d that failed .

 

Would really love one of us to get somewhere with gmac!!!! then we can all start.

They used evershed llp against us as well , not nice people to do business with.

Hope it goes ok for you mate

keep us updated please

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Hi Sandy

 

Any News, You hav'nt posted for a while, Just wandered how you were getting on with your claim. Keep going don't let them win.

 

Good Luck.

Abbey National - Prelim Letter sent / LBA sent 10th August.

Capital One - Data Protection Act S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) sent - Offered £428 - Refused. Statement received Actual charges £1060. M/C ISSUED PAID IN FULL I WON

GMAC Redmption Penalty - Letter sent requesting full detailed explaination of charges/exspense and penalty charges received

Yorkshire Bank/Visa - Data Protection Act S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) sent. Visa Prelim sent £235. No statements as yet for Bank Account.

 

This site has been so helpfull I will donate to keep it running to help others. :p

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mortgage with gmac taken out in 5th may 2004 at a rate of around 6.5% this was discounted for 1 yr, and then went upto 7.9%.

Please note the 1yr discount was from the offer date and not from when they actually paid for the property.......

Hope it helps you?

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Court date set for 10/10

 

Guess what though! they have filed a request for an extention of time to exchange documents. they have asked for 1 month although it will not affect the hearing date.

their reasons are amazing:

'The defendant has decided it is necessary for it to seek advice from council.

'Dependant upon that advice the defendant may wish to apply to remove the case from the small claims track on the basis the hrearing will take longer than 1.5 hours. The arguments are complex and that the evidence may be voluminous in excess of 3 lever arch files. the defendant may also with to attempt a form of ADR' What is that?

 

The hearing is listed fo MONDAY 9.30 am. i was not going to go as it seemed ok to me as hearing would not be delayed but on reflecton I would not mind going and objecting. Case started in April which is bags of time for this to be sorted. help please on what would be best approach...what about the 3 lever arch files... I am quaking in my boots.

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Hello Sandy, I've passed this to the other Mods and Bankfodder for an opinion. Hold tight. Don't panic!

Robertxc v. Abbey - £3300 Settled in full

Robertxc v. Clydesdale - £750 Settled in full

Nationwide v. Robertxc - £2000 overdraft wiped out, Default removed by order of the sheriff

Robertxc v. Style Card - Default removed by order of the sheriff

Robertxc v. Abbey (1) - Data Protection Act action. £750 compensation

Robertxc v. Abbey (2) - Data Protection Act action. £2000 compensation, default removed

 

The opinions on this post are those of Robertxc and not necessarily the opinions of the group and do not constitute sound legal advice. You are advised to seek professional legal advice.

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ADR' What is that?

 

 

ADR is alternative dispute resolution

 

they might ask it to be moved to fast track or multi track on the grounds that there will be an extensive legal argument

 

Sounds like they will settle this,

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Court date set for 10/10

...what about the 3 lever arch files... I am quaking in my boots.

Their ploy seems to have had the desired effect then. Don't let them bully you now.

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Hi Jssandy,

 

Don't worry they are trying to intimidate you. The issues are really not that complex and its unlikely the judge will allocate to the fast or multi -track as it is a straight forward case, well under the 5k limit and it is a consumer dispute.

 

ADR is alternative dispute resolution which includes mediation, negotiation concilliation and arbitration. So they are contradicting themselves in that one minute they are stating it is too complex for the small claims and then stating it is suitable for ADR. This is likely to be just a tactic as under the overriding objective of the Civil Procedure Rules parties have to show that they have considered the possiblity of using ADR.

 

I'm trying to imagine what they have put in their 3 lever arch files? It would be worth turning up just to see that! Its worth going to the hearing so that you can explain your reasons for wanting to remain in the small claims and drawing their behaviour to the attention of the judge.

 

All the best

 

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Hi Team.

 

I know what is inside the 3 arch lever files.. THEIR DINNER !!!

 

They are going to be in there for hours if they take this on.

It is a scare tactic to make you remove your claim. Keep on with your schedule.

As usual Zoot is impressive.

 

Good luck. . .

 

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Also, I would very much look forward to them being able to move this to the fast track and preferably even multi-track.

 

Their scare tactics would then backfire in magnificent fashion when they realise they would be faced with Standard Disclosure. This would force them to supply documentary evidence of their charging regime, the costs involved and any profit made from them.

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Will be with you in spirit. Just keep calm, and if there is anything you don't understand, don't be afraid to ask for an explanation.

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Good decision and best of luck Jssandy,

 

Keep your cool and be clear in your arguments. Don't worry they will not be expecting any legal arguments at this point.

 

Points to argue in your favour include:

 

1. It is a consumer dispute and should be allocated to the small claims which is designed particularly for consumers.

 

2. The claim is well below the 5K threshold. You filed the claim believing it would be dealt with in the small claims court and did not anticipate the risk of bearing the costs in the Fast Track. So to transfer to fast track would be grossly unfair.

 

3. Under the overriding objectives of the Civil Procedure Rules there is an obligation on the judge to ensure the parties are placed on an equal footing. As the defendant is a huge financial institution it would be unfair to place this in the fast track as they would have the advantage in being able to bear the risk of costs whereas you do not.

 

4. The points of law relied upon are well established and settled law with no complex issues of interpretation. There is thus no need for it to go to the County Court.

 

5. Whilst you have repeatedly tried to contact the defendant to resolve the issue, they have failed to respond to any communication. Their request for extra time for ADR is thus likely to be a further delaying tactic to those already employed.

 

All the best, will be thinking of you also!

 

Zoot

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Hello again .. herewith update...

Went to court today, Judge agreed to extend time for service of papers to GMAC and the three lever arch files is apparently to accomodate calculations. We argued that they have been aware of this since April but judge explained that if they are going this track it will take considerable time to put this all together. The judge mentioned the avalanch of claims now clogging the court system and that the mercantile court are trying to get a test case through the courts. He did mention that, however, every time it gets near to one being tried as a test case the banks settle. The judge has asked that our case be referred. We raised the issue of costs and all the points mentioned by Zoot! (thanks came in very handy) the judge agreed and referred without costs to be applied to Claimant (us!).

The agent for GMAC tried to scare us stating the enormous costs going fast track and came accross as a little intimidating but we made it clear we felt this was fine as these cases need to go to trial to settle once and for all. Made it clear we will fight.He mentioned that he had not had instructions to settle but to fully defend.

Have to admit felt a bit intimidated about the legal arguments but I guess that is what they wanted us to feel. The case if still in small claims will not be heared until after 15/12 !!

Whew!

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Hi Sandy.

 

Well done with even turning up.I filed with Birmingham Midshires this morning for my ERC,so i am expecting simular things to happen.Thanks for keeping us posted.Good luck.

 

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