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  1. FTMDave
    Thanks Bazza
  2. FTMDave
    Right, to try to explain. I work out of the country, in Italy, as a private English teacher. Recently a local lawyer asked me to do a translation from Italian to English. It was the equivalent of an (extremely long) Letter Before Action, and in Italy even an LBA has to be deposited at the local court. This is simply work for me, I don't know any of the people involved. However, it involves a local person who had a hip implant. The hip implant started to leak metals into their blood. After some years of this they had to have a second operation to remove the implant and have a new one inserted, which seems a pretty dreadful process. Understandably they want compensation. I see the manufacturer removed the faulty implants from the market in 2010 and has been involved in countless compensation claims. The lawyer is an expert in his own field but knows nothing about UK systems, and asked if I would look up some things. Now we get to the Alice In Wonderland nonsense of the Italian bureaucracy. Apparently to take legal action against a company in an Italian court you have to quote - the company's proper address - the company's VAT code - the company's tax code. The address is easy. The VAT code quite easy. But the stumbling block is this Unique Taxpayer Reference which doesn't seem to be in the public domain. Until I started looking this morning I didn't know a UTR existed! Any ideas of where/how to find this info.? Many thanks.
  3. FTMDave
    Honeybee, BazzaS, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm in a bit of a rush now but will be back on the forum this evening to explain. The logic is a little "torturous" so I need a moment to explain properly. Thanks again.
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    Andy, thanks for sorting out the correct forum. I'm not talking about any company of mine here. I need to find out the VAT code and the UTR of a certain company, Depuy International Limited in Leeds. VAT codes are in the public domain and easily findable. UTR codes seem not to be and I wondered if anyone knows how you go about finding out a company UTR code. Thanks.
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    Hi everyone, firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong forum. If so please tell me off mods and feel free to move the thread! I need to find out the VAT code and the Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) of a company. I found the VAT code easy enough. Has anyone got any idea how I can find this UTR for a particular company? Thanks.
  6. FTMDave
    But the OP has admitted being the driver.
  7. FTMDave
    Firstly, don't panic! Others more knowledgeable than me will be on in the morning. Meanwhile one solution that comes to mind is to approach the shop where you were shopping. You were a genuine customer and are genuinely disabled, so you should demand the shop tell VCS to cancel. However, get some kip and wait for the experts tomorrow!
  8. FTMDave
    Others much more knowledgeable than me will be on later. Firstly, it's Lidl who employ these crooks, not vice versa, so if you go up the company chain it's likely someone will force them to cancel. Secondly, in Scotland the conmen can only sue the driver (in certain circumstances in England & Wales they can sue the keeper (POFA)) so never, ever, tell them who was driving. Thirdly, I vaguely remember something about it being impossible to have a contract during a breakdown or some such ... "frustration of contract" or something ... as I say, wait for the experts tomorrow morning ... with their help you will be coughing up exactly £0.00.
  9. FTMDave
    Plus, these conmen often bottle it and don't turn up to court. Or else send some third party along who can't legally represent them. Both ways lead to an easy win.
  10. FTMDave
    You say the claim form is from BW Legal. Is it from BW Legal or from the court? From the wording, and your mention of moneyclaim.gov.uk, I would presume the court. In any case, don't panic, if it is from the court you will have several days in which to respond. Please clarify this point, and the regulars, who are superb at battling these, will be on in the morning.
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    I don't think it's a letter before action at all (wait for the experts though). They are only threatening to involve a "debt recovery agency" - who can do nothing! The buffoons even admit "Pay and Display Ticket was face down" which means you paid and the law is on your side.
  12. FTMDave
    Others more knowledgeable than me will be on in the morning, but this seems an easy win. You paid. The parking company suffered no loss. The law is on your side. Er - that's it. Of course that won't stop these bandits sending you letters threatening you with being hung, drawn & quartered, or getting debt collection companies to send their own scary letters in big red writing hinting at Armageddon. But they are just paper tigers. Well done on hanging on to the ticket. If you look at other threads where payment has been made, but the motorist has made a tiny "mistake" (such as putting O instead of 0 as a registration number), you'll see the parking company always threaten and then invariably slink away ... and if they are really daft enough to do court, invariably get a damn good thrashing.
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    Others much more knowledgeable than me will be on in the morning. Meanwhile, while paying £60 is better than paying £100, paying £0 is even better You've already hinted that the signage was rubbish so that is immediately a stick to beat VCS with. I'm sure the regulars will agree with your suggestion of going back and photographing the signage. In any case don't panic, help is on its way, this site is great for advice on how to beat the PPC sharks!
  14. FTMDave
    Also, how did you contact the gym? If you're sure it is the gym who have employed these conmen, send them a strongly-worded letter demanding they get the invoice cancelled and asking what on earth has possessed them to employ bandits who are driving away their genuine customers.
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    The legal process is relatively straight forward and logical, and once you understand this you will stop panicking. Say you & I were in dispute, you reckoned I owed you money. Firstly you would have to send me a Letter Before Action. Then you would have to take me to court. Then I would have to lose the court case. Next I would have to refuse to pay. Only then would I have a CCJ and you could send the bailiffs round. All that is happened so far is that you have been sent silly letters. No need to panic at all.
  16. FTMDave
    ste2562, well done! Great you defeated their rubbish and then hit them in the pocket to boot! Have a pint or ten to celebrate. Your experience and brilliant fightback in this thread will go on to be extremely useful to others in a similar position.
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    I haven't had experience, but I understand EB's letters both legally & tactically. A lot of these PPCs and their solicitors send out demands for money and even threats of court action - either without bothering to check the facts of the "debt", or in many cases knowing full well the money is not owed! They know that in most cases the motorist will dirty their pants due to fear of court and cough up. They're conmen. Conmen with a nice tie, but conmen. Therefore giving them both barrels like EB suggests makes them aware you're onto their sordid scheme and they MAY give up (no guarantee of course). Certainly if you try to be polite and reasonable (with conmen), well the conmen will continue to think they can con money out of you. EB is spot on.
  18. FTMDave
    First, it's not a fine. Smart Parking don't have the power to fine anyone. Second, I would suspect you'll be asked to start your own thread.
  19. FTMDave
    At one point you state the Beavis case "is to be heard in February 2015." As it's now 2017 that bit needs to be edited!
  20. FTMDave
    But there is a huge difference between Britannia Parking and Debt Recovery Plus. Britannia Parking claim you owe them money and might take you to court, although you are a hell of a long way from that at the moment, and their case would be pretty useless given their NTK is out of time. Debt Recovery Plus are just a bunch of oaves who send scary letters, they have no power to do anything, they are paper tigers. Even if the debt exists, it's not theirs. That's why the advice is to ignore them.
  21. FTMDave
    So after 19 months they are still sending out threatagrams, but never see to get round to this feared court action!
  22. FTMDave
    As others have said, the first thing is not to panic. The whole point of these threatening letters is to make motorists think they'll be hung drawn & quartered and therefore it's better to cough up. Yet the vast majority of the threats come from paper tigers who will do nothing in the end. The facts that your mum has had the good sense to not communicate with these conmen and not identify the driver, plus the fact she lives in Scotland, puts her in a excellent position legal-wise and the parking company in a pretty useless one. Think about it. If they are in such a good position regarding the law, why haven't they already taken your mum to court? Why do they keep sending letter after letter rather than getting on with actual court action? 'Cos they know that if the case ever did get to court they'd be thrashed.
  23. FTMDave
    If you lose - which you won't - you'll have to pay very limited costs because this is a small claims action. Certainly not thousands of pounds! In Gladstone's claim they are asking for £75 costs.
  24. FTMDave
    Great news! However I think I'm correct in saying that the parking companies can take people to court up to six years after the event, so although you're 99% in the clear don't throw the documentation away!
  25. FTMDave
    They do like the use of the word "may"! These DCAs have no powers whatsoever, so ignore them, all you've got is a pathetic attempt at a scary letter.

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