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    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. Apparently there is a max 3 hours limit which we were not aware of. This means taking kids to softplay and then having a meal on one of the restaurants will more than likely take you over the limit. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR seems to be in public street that leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
    • honestly you sound like you work the claimant yes affixed dont appeal to anyone no cant be “argued either way”  
    • Because of the tsunami of cases we are having for this scam site, over the weekend I had a look at MET cases we have here stretching back to June 2014.  Yes, ten years. MET have not once had the guts to put a case in front of a judge. In about 5% of cases they have issued court papers in the hope that the motorist will be terrified of going to court and will give in.  However, when the motorist defended, it was MET who bottled it.  Every time.
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Thank you so much. We applied to strike out the claim. We have a hearing for this next Tuesday. Before this we had a Hearing date of mid June and the Judge asked for various things, ie fees to be paid by WF by 10 May (have checked with Court - these have not been received) also disclosure of documents by a couple of weeks ago - Court says nothing been received from WF so far.

I am starting to panic about the STrike Out hearing and if our case is strong enough, what to focus on etc.

 

This is all following getting a CCJ set aside. Surfaceagent did a brilliant Defence for us after getting it set aside.

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Hi Andy!

Thank you very much.

Here goes:

 

DJ XXX has considered the statements of case and allocation questionnaires filed and allocated the claim to the fast track.

 

This case is allocated to the Fast Track.

 

Each party is to give standard disclosure by list by the 31 March

 

Statement of witnesses of fact are to be exchanged simultaneously by the 28 April

 

No party has permission to call or rely on expert evidence, none being necessary.

 

Each party must file a completed pre-trial checklist t no later htan 10 May and the claimant must pay a fee of £XXX

 

By the 16 March the Defendants shall serve upon the Claimants and file at Court the dates upon which they are available for trial within the trial period and the Claimant shall by the 19 March notify the Civil Listing Officer of the agreed dates upon which both parties are available. If either or both parties are in default of the above the Court will list the case for hearing in the trial window on the available information without further order.

 

Not less than 7 clear working days before the trial the Claimant shall file at the Trial Court an indexed and paginated bundle of documents which complies with the requirements of Rule 39.5 of the Civil Procedure Rules and the practice direction thereto, and shall serve a copy of it on the Defendant. The parties shall endeavour to agree the contents of the bundle before it is filed. The bundle shall also include a case summary of not more than 500 words. Unless the Claimant contacts the Court no later than 3 days following the conclusion of the Trial (or after settlement if the trial bundles have been filed) stating that they require the return of the bundles, the trial bundles will be destroyed without further reference ot hte parties.

 

The trial will be listed in the rial window of the three weeks commencing on the 15 June with a time estimate of 3 hours.

 

A hearing fee of £XXXX must be paid by the claimant by 10 May. If the court is notified in writing that the hearing is no longer needed the hearing fee will be refunded in full or in part in certain circumstnaces, please refer to the leaflets explaining more about what happens when your case is allocated to track.

 

Notes:

You and the other part, or parties, may agree to extend the time periods given in the directions except

where a rule, practice direction

etc etc (These notes seem standardised at the bottom of each page - let me know if you need to know the rest of them)

 

For ease of reference I've quoted this post which I think may help. Have they complied with any of the order? Have you done all that was require of you?

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So what Prudence should have done is

 

1. sent a list of dates when you would be available for trial by 16 March

 

2. sent a list of documents to be relied on if any (standard disclosure) by 31 March

 

3. sent a witness statement by 28 April

 

4. completed and submitted a pre-trial checklist by 10 May

 

Where all these done?

 

Who has applied for the strike out - you or the claimant?

 

 

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Thankyou Caro. Had visitors was desperate to get rid of (in the nicest possible way). WF didn't give disclosure by 31 March. I wrote to the Court and said we were unable to comply because we had had no response to our CPR request to WF (back in December) and therefore could not compile a proper defence. However I did provide dates we would be available for trial as the order reequested. There has been nothing from WF according to the Court.

 

Then we wrote to request a strike out and the Judge said that we must complete the appropriate form and pay the fee. Also the procedural steps were already set out in the Order (the one above).

 

Thanks Caro and thanks Post, much appreciate your help

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Hi, what I wanted to know was is the judge likely to accept me not being able to comply with the procedural steps of the Order (post 202) because of non-receipt of CPR? Also, does the N244 form (which we have submitted & paid for) cancel out the fast track hearing due to take place 19 June? What do you think of WF not submitting anything to the Court yet, nor paying the fees requested? Or is that because the strike out hearing is now taking place on 18 May?

Do I just go with what was in my original Defence? Feeling very anxious now.

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I assume that the hearing for strike out is due to the non-compliance with CPR and lack of information. If you get the strike out then it will be game over, and there will be no more hearings.

 

You must point out to the judge that you would gladly submit a full defence if you could, but in the absence of sufficient information you're unable to do so. As there's insufficient information for the claim to proceed you are requesting the claim be struck out.

 

If you have any adverse information on your credit file ask the judge to order it to be removed.

 

I would also suggest that you take along a draft order for wasted costs, and ask the judge to use it if the case is struck out.

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HI Caro, yes that's correct. All they have done so far in this case is file an AQ. Thank you very much for that. Do I, at the Strike Out hearing, mention the mis-sold PPI (which I mentioned at the hearing for Setting Aside) and also the incorrectly headed Agreement, and unlawful charging of interest on the PPI amount, etc, etc. Or is the Strike Out hearing only for the reasons as to why I can't proceed with our Defence, ie the reasons you mention? THANKS SO MUCH CARO , STEVEN AND POSTGGJ

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CPR Part 3.4 deals with srike outs - there are 3 reasons:

(a) that the statement of case discloses no reasonable grounds for bringing or defending the claim;

 

(b) that the statement of case is an abuse of the court’s process or is otherwise likely to obstruct the just disposal of the proceedings; or

 

© that there has been a failure to comply with a rule, practice direction or court order.

 

 

In your case, it is either a) or c) (or both) because they have not provided documents to demonstrate they have a case and they have not abided by an order of the court to poduce such documents

 

 

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Thanks Steven. Feel so much better and much more confident with all of the input from all you great guys. Am getting on with the paperwork now so that I'm organised. Will probably pop up again from time to time between now and then.... so don't go on holiday or anything please! haha

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I was preparing myself for a weekend of shuffling through papers and working on the case ready for Court on Tuesday.... and guess what arrived today Recorded Delivery???????

YOU GUESSED IT...... THEY'VE WITHDRAWN!

They sent us the Notice of Discontinuance with covering letter and said copied to the Court (obviously I will check with the Court on Monday)

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!

POSTGGJ where are you.... you stood by me all the way and I can't thank you enough,

Also Surfaceagent X20, Goldlady, Andyorch, Caro, Steven4064. Not forgetting Pt in the very beginning who spurred me on when we were so low and at our wits end. And many others who all contributed and helped. I hope I can now help others with the bit of experience I've gained.

THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU!

What happens about the Strike Out hearing on Tuesday (we paid the Court £80 for that). Also as Caro advised, I need to ask the Judge to make an Order to clear our Credit Statement, how do we ask that, by letter?

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I presume the strike out hearing will be cancelled but you should ask the court those questions - maybe the judge will still let you present your case - after all he won't be busy then :D

 

But fantastic news - well done. And well done guys clappingsmilie.gif

 

 

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Thankyou Blossom, I'll have to have a think about the wording. If anyone has any idea how I can phrase it, I'd be grateful, and what sort of amount is reasonable.... I have spent hours and hours on this... and CAG should get a nice donation out of it!!!!

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CPR38.6 covers costs PART 38 - DISCONTINUANCE - Ministry of Justice

 

This thread may also give you some food for thought.

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/dca-legal-successes/134172-sharpman-nationwide-credit-card-6.html#post1805020

 

My suggestion would be that you write to Cohens about the wasted costs and removal of adverse information from your credit file, with a copy to the judge.

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