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    • OK. Thank you all for the input.  I'll ignore their letters of demand but NEVER ignore a letter of claim. I'm bracing myself for the stress as their demands £££ goes up and the case gets sent to debt collectors. 
    • OK.  It was worth a try. Their case is still pants and they have broken their own Code of Practice numerous times.
    • @BankFodder sorry for the delay and thank you for the lengthy reply. Yes, I agree. It's a small business and the guy is very very decent. I know someone else said my priority shouldn't be worrying whether he gets shafted but I'm not here to try and screw him over because I feel like if someone behaves decently and gets exploited, they might not behave so kindly in the future. I know DX mentioned he thinks I've caused the issue by leaving multiple instructions, but I have already explained why and both instructions were to leave it with a neighbour and there was nothing advising the driver to abandon the parcel on my doorstep. I don't think leaving it there could be considered a safe place.  I am still waiting on the retailer to respond. Ultimately, I wanted to know how he would proceed if DPD's response isn't favourable. I am certainly not looking to cause any problems. I just want my laptop. I will read the other posts for sure. I've been a bit preoccupied with family stuff. I have nothing in writing from DPD as I phoned them, but they did advise it should be the retailer that liaises with them. I tried contacting the driver straight after deliver via Whatsapp, as that's an option, but it said I couldn't send him a message and I have kept that log. We all know who took the parcel on our street, because that person has a history of parcel theft, but I don't have a doorbell camera or cctv. Police are refusing to intervene, despite the fact that I, along with several other people, spotted another's neighbour's parcel in said "suspect's" car and confronted her to get the parcel back. If the police had acted sooner, I might have had a better chance of getting the parcel back, but I suspect the laptop has long been sold on.  When the retailer responds, I will send him the link to this thread. Hopefully, he will benefit from the information on here as well.
    • @dx100uk none of the instructions advised them to leave the parcel on my door step and without such instructions., I'm struggling to see why they think it's ok to just dump it there.
    • I have checked. No recording was triggered by the camera - I don't have loop recording, only proximity and vibration sensor triggered recording - abs and since he took photos from afar and did not physically touch my car - no recording was done. 
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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I'm not sure what happens to charging orders when a debt is sold on - it's happened to me and I still haven't been informed by HFC or the court or any change in who to pay - as far as I know the charging order is still in favour of HFC.

 

As far as the agreement is concerned, this might not come under the CCA as it is secured - how much was it for initially - was it £19,900? If it's not under the CCA, I don't know what the rules are on enforceability.

 

You should be able to get a copy of the Land Registry entry for your property to see if there is a charge on it. That's the definitive document when it comes to property charges as far as I am aware. Look them up on Google for more info on how to go about this.

 

If they have sold the account on then HFC shouldn't chase you for payment unless the account gets returned to them for some reason. Only one comapny can own and chase you for the debt, unless they are only acting for the OC and don't own the debt.

 

When the debt is sold on it is usual for the OC to clsoe off the account with a zero balance, because at that point it is no longer a debt on their books - they have accepted a payment for the debt from the DCA and written the rest off against tax.

 

I think you need to SAR HFC (and Hillesdon if you've been paying them too) to get full statements of where your payments have been going. Go for full disclosure of all information ("including, but not limited to, statements, documents, notes, letters, call logs, notices of assignment, etc.") held by them against your name - not just the accoutnin question or a single address. You need to find out what happened between 1994 and 2003. What was the original interest rate on the loan, and was it fixed rate?

 

If it turns out that there is no charge on your current property there shouldn't be anything to worry about, unless you also own the property at the address on the original agreement.

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How much are Hillesden chasing you for? It might be worth CCAing Hillesden, but I'm not sure if this is valid if the debt is unregulated - someone with more knowledge needs to confirm this.

 

The bit I missed earlier "You hereby authorise us to deduct from the loan and pay as indicated the sum of £3,793.12 to the specified payees? (Don't know what this means.)" - this is normally where part of the sum advanced under the loan is being used to pay off an earlier loan with HFC - they do this type of refinancing a lot, paying of an existing debt with a bigger one.

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