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    • Unsure what would be classed as appeal I first contacted the applicant then IAS. I am not aware I could appeal again as Bank state I was informed that is news to me. I would have to look through the paper work, I apologise I forget so much due to my caring duties wish I had quality time to get so much done. Will try and look tomorrow, appreciate everyone's time and input.
    • Hi, I've been reading the invaluable advice on this forum and reading about the problems with Evri and lost delivery of items.  From what I gather the initial steps after having exhausted every's own lost item claim process is to draft a Letter of Claim, I think it is called and to register with the government Money Claims.  I have got a login for Money Claims and have made an initial stab at the letter but I'm not certain I have got it right. Am I right to assume that having exhausted Evri customer service's claims process and having received the denial of any compensation because the laptop I was sending is on the non-compensatory list that my next step would be to send the Letter of Claim to them? Let me provide some basic details which I hopefully have addressed in the letter. I purchased a laptop through Amazon.co.uk which a business in Belfast sold refurbished laptops through.  They had a 30 day money back guarantee for a full refund if you have any issues with the laptop.  I have the invoice from Amazon showing the purchase.  On 27 April, 2024 before the end of the 30 day period I used their ParcelShop (inside a Tesco) to send the laptop back and have the tracking reference mentioned in the letter.  As mentioned in the letter there was they advised they could not give me or sell me any insurance because laptops are on the non-compensatory list so I just paid the normal delivery cost.  It was scanned as leaving the ParcelShop on 29 April and the tracking has been like that ever since.  After a 28 working day Evri claim process they gave the expected response that they could not provide any compensation and simply could not proceed with my claim. I was hoping to get some advice on whether I go ahead now and email this to Customer Services straightaway and should I send a hard-copy to the Evri address as well?  Or are there any steps I have missed out on first?  I believe 14 days is the reasonable period of time for them to respond so if I were to send it tomorrow, for example 12 June then I should expect a reply by 26 June, is that correct and fair?  And assuming they don't reply with a full refund then I would then go down the government Money Claims site to proceed with that? Sorry for all the questions, I want to make sure I go about it properly.  I'll continue to read through other cases on here so I can get an even better handle on the process. I attached a LOC, happy for any edits or updates that will make it even better. Thanks so much for anyone's help! Regards, Matt Evri letter of claim.docx
    • The date was 3 June. Get on MCOL now. The legal principle is that, even if you defence is late, if the other party hasn't requested judgement, then your defence takes priority and is accepted. You might be in time. When I say now I mean now.  Recently we had someone who was nine days' late and this was pointed out to them at 5:30pm.  They faffed around till 11pm.  When they went on MCOl they saw that judgement had been entered at 7pm. Every minute is vital. File the below standard defence if you still can - 1.  The Defendant is the recorded keeper of [motor vehicle]. 2.  It is denied that the Defendant entered into a contract with the Claimant. 3.  As held by the Upper Tax Tribunal in Vehicle Control Services Limited v HMRC [2012] UKUT 129 (TCC), any contract requires offer and acceptance.  The Claimant was simply contracted by the landowner to provide car-park management services and is not capable of entering into a contract with the Defendant on its own account, as the car park is owned by and the terms of entry set by the landowner.  Accordingly, it is denied that the Claimant has authority to bring this claim.    4.  In any case it is denied that the Defendant broke the terms of a contract with the Claimant. 5.  The Claimant is attempting double recovery by adding an additional sum not included in the original offer.  6.  The Particulars of Claim is denied in its entirety.  It is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief at all.
    • Hi friends,  I’m a bit worried I may have got confused with timings here. I thought I had 33 days from my acknowledgment to submit a defence but the date added above says 3/6/24.   have I missed the date?   if so how can I apply for an exception due to my disability and problems with deadlines and dates etc (ADHD)?   what should I submit as a defence?   I’ve had no reply from BW so far    just been back on MCOL and it says 28 days from service if I completed an acknowledgment of service so does that mean 28 days from that of acknowledgement (I.e. 16/5) which would make deadline for defence 14/6?   Thanks! Panicking here.
    • Normally we don't advise playing your cards early in a snotty letter, but as you have appealed we might as well use what you wrote in the appeal against them. There is no rush, you have until 6 July to get it to them.  See what the other regulars think too. How about something like this? -   Dear Rachael & Sean, cheers for your Letter of Claim.  I rolled around on the floor in laughter at the idea you'd actually thought I'd take such tripe seriously and would cough up! As usual you'll have been too bone idle to do any due diligence.  Had you done so you would have seen that I appealed to your client.  Indeed the driver on the day is a textbook example of having done exactly what you should do when you do not wish to be bound by the T&Cs in a private car park. Of course none of that mattered to the spivs you represent but do you really want to put such a useless case in front of a judge? To be fair, your clients are very useful members of the human race - as comedians.  How I loved the page turner of their antics at The Citrus Building in Bournemouth.  It was chuckle after chuckle reading about them, letter after letter, month after month, insisting they were legally in the right, even through someone who had done just the first day of a GCSE law course could have told them they weren't.  Until the denouement - BOOM - an absolute hammering in court.  In fact - SLAM, BANG - managing to lose twice against the same motorist for the same car park in front of two different judges. Your client can either drop their foolishness now or get yet another tolchocking* in court where I will go for an unreasonable costs order under CPR 27.14(2)(g) and spend the dosh on a nice summer holiday, while every day laughing at your clients' expense. I look forward to your deafening silence. COPIED TO COUNTRYWIDE PARKING MANAGEMENT LTD   *  This word is used under licence from Brassnecked
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I have been married to my wife since 2003. We have been living together from june 2003 to july 2009.... I have two children from her , she has two children from her previous marriage... She has been claiming as a single parent from 2003 to january 2009... In 2006 till 2007 she was running a business from her home address on my name and claiming benefits...On every document she filled in has her handwriting on it for the business... Ini 2004 she was convicted of fraud and deception for defrauding an insurance company..

In 2006 she changed her name her name so that she could go to college to study law.. In 2008 she went to local university to study law..... In feb 2009 she wanted me to go out and work and still claim for benefits.. I am a full time carer for my father and so i refused.. In july she left the house where we livid together. She went to her mothers house... I rang her a few days later to ask her when she will return home.. She rang the police and told them i was harrasing her... An harrasment order was then served on me..

On the 14 july 2009 i wrote a letter to her university and told them she had a conviction on her name ... They then wrote to her. she then went to the university and told them a sob story that she had been a victim of domestic violence ..... On the 19 july 2009 she made a statement to the police that she had been a victim of domestic violence for 7 years ... Then the arrested me for the alleged offence.. i am on police bail . I have been bailed twice naw... There is no history of domestic violence since we have been together.. She has made this up to play the victim... I have told the benefit fraud agency of the benefit fraud she has been doing.. I have sent into them prove of my marriage, home made movies letters that show that i was living with her for seven years, she is denaying that i liveid with her...THe benefit agency havent yet approched her.. I am worried becouse i hope they dont believe her made up sob stories, she is a very good actor... Can anybody tell me what could happen with the benefit agency, will she get a way?

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I'm afraid it's impossible to answer. The decision for a penalty would lie with the person who makes the final determination on the case. What I can say is that if she was claiming on the grounds of being a single parent when she was not, is she will be made to repay the money regardless. What penalty she would get on top of that, if any, would be down to the DWP. They may prosecute, they may not.

 

If you knew what she was doing at the time, you could also be implicated in it.

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Even though you have provided DWP with evidence of your marriage etc they will still need to conduct their own investigation and this can take months, particularly if they decide to obtain bank statements and other financial information relating to her business activities. The fact that your wife has not been approached yet does not mean she has got away with it. Also as Erika has pointed out in her post there is a possibility you could also be interviewed, and subsequently charged, with either knowingly allowing or aiding and abetting benefit fraud.

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rantz, it does come accross as if your motives are bitterness that should be let go. On the benefit issue you are just as liable if you knew about it and on the kays issue 2003, come on now, you must have known about it earlier. Could be seen as malice so move on.

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I dont think that the DWP would be interested in your ex wifes defrauding of Kays. ;)

 

If they do investigate your claims to your wifes benefit fraud then the enquiries and evidence gathering can take months in order to get the case together.

Do you think you may have opened a can of worms, you may have implicated yourself as well

 

Lou has offered good advice :)

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My wife is constantly laying to the police and to the courts that i am breaching my undertaking..This is a big bunch of lies... She causes damages to her car and rings the police and tells them it was me... The reason why she is doing this to prevent me from having any contact or custody with my kids...

I will leave the kays and benefit issue, i dont want to go down that road..thanks for warning me loopy and micky... What can i do about this game she is playing inregard to damaging her own car and blaming me for it??

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She has no proof you are damaging her car, the police should take no action there hopefully. The only harm here she is doing is to her car.

Are you on benefits now ?

If you are consider seeing a solicitor you should be entitled to legal aid

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If I were you, I'd start keeping a diary of your wife's behaviour so that you have a full record of what she gets up to and details of all communication between you.

 

My brother-in-law has been married to my sister for over 2 years, but his first wife still pops up every so often. She had him arrested last year for supposedly assaulting her. The reality was that she had started paying visits to his elderly mother who suffered with dementia to try and get into her Will. He found her at the house and chucked her out.

 

Some people will stop at nothing.... You need to protect yourself.

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