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    • Which Court have you received the claim from?  CIVIL NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE, NORTHAMPTON Name of the Claimant?  LOWELL PORTFOLIO LTD How many defendant's joint or self?  SELF Date of issue – top right hand corner of the claim form – this in order to establish the time line you need to adhere to.  03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  THE CLAIM IS FOR THE SUM OF £6000 DUE TO THE DEFENDANT UNDER AN AGREEMENT REGULATED BY THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 FOR A LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC ACCOUNT WITH AN ACCOUNT REFERENCE OF (ACCOUNT NO. 16 DIGITS LONG). THE DEFENDANT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTRACTUAL PAYMENTS REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT AND A DEFAULT NOTICE WAS SERVED UNDER S.87(1) OF THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 WHICH HAS NOT BEEN COMPLIED WITH. THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. THE CLAIM INCLUDES STATUORY INTEREST UNDER S.69 OF THE COUNTY COURTS ACT 1984 AT A RATE OF 8% PER ANNUM FOR THE DATE PF ASSIGNMENT TO THE DATE OF ISSUE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUMBE OF £0.00. THE CLAIMANT CLAIMS THE SUM OF £6000. What is the total value of the claim? £6500 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? YES, NOTICES OF CLAIM.  Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred?  YES  Did you inform the claimant of your change of address?  NO 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?  BEFORE   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post?  I DONT RECALL   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ?  NO   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.  DEBT PURCHASER.   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? THE FIRST I RECALL WAS A LETTER FROM LOWELL SAYING THEY NOW OWNED THE DEBT.  Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor?  NOT THAT I RECALL OR BEEN PROVIDED WITH THROUGH CCA REQUESTS.AT LAST REQUEST THEY SAID THEY WERE AWAITING THE DEFAULT NOTICE AND NO ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL RESPONDED WHICH TO DATE I'VE NOT HAD OR SEEN.  Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ?  NO, I RECEIEVED LETTERS OF CLAIMS   Why did you cease payments?  I WAS UNDER MEDICAL CARE WHICH CAUSED ME NOT TO WORK. AROUND THAT TIME LOWELL HAD WANTED ME TO INCREASE MY PAYMENTS AS IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO CLEAR THE DEBT. I HAD BEEN PAYING THEM WHAT I WAS PAYING THE BANK. I EXPLAINED MY THEN HEALTH & FINANCIAL POSITION AND THAT I WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THEY PUT A HOLD ON MY ACCOUNT FOR A FEW MONTHS SO I CANCELLED MY DIRECT DEBIT. I MADE A FULL AND FINAL OFFER WHICH WAS REJECTED. WHEN THEY WANTED PAYMENTS TO RESUME I EXPLAINED I WAS IN A WORSE FINANCIAL POSITION, STILL UNDERTAKING TREATMENT AND NOW UNEMPLOYED SO COULD NOT START PAYMENTS AS THEY WANTED. AFTER SENDING MY FINANCIAL SPREADSHEET THEY KEPT SENDING LETTERS ASKING WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO. I COULDN’T SEE A WAY FORWARD I FELT STREESSED AND UNDER PRESSURE SO WROTE THAT I WOULD NOT BE CORRESPONDING WITH THEM ANYMORE.    What was the date of your last payment? NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018   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? I COMMUNICATED MY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY, WE MADE A MONTHLY PAYMENT AGREEMENT WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL DEBT WAS SOLD.  
    • Perhaps you would care to read this and reflect on your continuing comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany Jugg    ALEX BRUMMER: How grotesque of pro-Palestine protesters to besmirch Auschwitz, the place where my grandparents died WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross... My elderly aunt Sussie and cousin Sheindy had been teenagers at Auschwitz and Belsen but survived and are alive to this day. What they will make of the protesters who waved flags, heckled and chanted as Israelis took part in the March Of The Living – the annual walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau – I cannot imagine. The images now circulating of the protesters are indescribably disturbing. They can only bring back memories of those final moments Sheindy shared with my grandparents when my grandmother Fanya squeezed her hand and told her to lie about her age to avoid the gas chambers. Claiming she was older, and could work, meant that Sheindy lived, not died. The outrage perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 has brought back the most terrifying memories for these two women – memories of pillage, mutilation and starvation. The Holocaust, or Shoah to use the Hebrew word, was the deliberate, industrial-scale killing of Jews.  It is bad enough that pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas sympathisers have chosen to steal the language of the Holocaust.  Any comparison between Israel's retaliation and the monstrous genocide of the 1940s is odious and anti-Semitic
    • Thank you JK2054 and BankFodder for your replies. The information requested is as follows:   My wife and I are sole traders supplying bespoke, handmade wedding trays and other items through our website. We do not sell on ebay. We had an order for two trays (invoice value £370) that were shipped on Monday 25th March. We used P2G as the broker and Evri as the shipper. We declared the value but did not take out insurance. As the trays were a present for a wedding on Saturday 30th March we checked the progress of delivery on the Thursday to see that there had been an attempt to deliver on the 27th but the driver failed to deliver as the customer’s gate was shut (customer informs us that the gates are open between 7am-7pm. We contacted the customer who informed us she had been waiting in all week and there had been no attempt of a delivery. Evri allege they attempted to deliver on the 28th & 29th. On the P2G web site on the 4th April at 14.17 it stated that the customer refused delivery. At 14.28 it updated to say there was a problem with the address and at 14.32 updated to say the customer had refused delivery. At 14.35 updated again to say it was being returned. Last entry was on the 7th April that it was being processed at the depot. We never received it. I have had six web chats with P2G between the 4th-30th April. On the 26th April, I had an offer of £20 plus cost of delivery (£6.72) from P2G which I rejected. During this time, I also contacted Evri that resulted in an email from Evri Customer Services (20th April) stating that they had lost the parcel. I replied requesting details of the attempted delivery but received no reply. After emailing Evri again on the 23rd asking again for the information I received a phone call from someone called Haleemah on the 25th who apologised and promised to send an email with a link to submit a claim form. I subsequently received an email with the link which only took me to a page that stated “Page not found”. After informing Evri customer services of the problem (to which no reply was forthcoming) a couple of days later I retried the link but it only took me to the Evri website. I believe that I have a good case against both companies but would appreciate guidance on which path to go down. I have read most of the information on this site, which has been very helpful and much appreciated, particularly the various court transcripts. I appreciate that this process is a marathon and not a sprint and am fully aware that I need to get everything in the correct order before starting on the legal road. I am sure this covers the current position but if further info is needed please let me know.  
    • Everything at small claims revolves around informality and common sense, there are no "special" ways to have to do things. The site manager's WS will be like yours and the one I linked to - just much shorter.  There need to be the introductory hearings about the case, the parties, etc., and the concluding Statement of Truth. In the middle just a couple of paragraphs where they say who they are, how they know you, and about permission being given by the landowner to use the car park. Superb.  I've added another section about the signage to the suggested WS sections three posts above. Yes, it's perfectly possible.  It'd be a good idea to phone the court on the 18th to see if they have paid.
    • OK thank you very much. I will prepare my WS as you advise.  I will indeed be preparing the WS over the weekend. I will also post UKPC's on Wednesday by 2nd class mail. As they have until the 17th to pay the court fee, is it possible they might discontinue at that stage too? Also I wanted to ask, in what form should the site manager's statement come? And the site owner if i can contact them? I will get photos of the signage to share with you also. Thank you.
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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.

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      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.

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

       

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And, true to his word, the rest of the statements came this morning, 40 days on the dot. (and thanks to my little crack of the whip couple of days ago, methinks)

 

Highligted away... They owe me £ 384.50 in charges. It would have been more (double, in fact), but I had wrangled that much in refunds in previous fights with them.

 

Well, they've already had their LBA, so Moneyclaim, here we come!

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Go for it. Are you going to serve in person? That is very satisfying.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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serve in person? :o that would be my favourite thing ever. i think i'd have my mate film it!!! :D then i'll post it on here with a musical score and a laugh track :D

Fairly, reasonably and transparently kicking natwest in the man parts.

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can i get a "hell yeah!" ?

local news, national news, red tops, i'm gonna give rupert murdoch a shout too.. it'll still only be me and my mate tho.. but who knows? lol.

Fairly, reasonably and transparently kicking natwest in the man parts.

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Ok, I'm confused. Damn maths again.

 

Moneyclaim.

Back to the daily charge: Is it calculated on the first sum claimed - charges only, or on the charges + added interest?

 

For example, NWB owes me £315.50 in charges. But the 8% bumps the total up to £446.07 total. If the former, the daily charge is 7 p a day, the latter is 10 p a day.

 

Not that it's a lot, but I want to make sure I get it right.

 

And I'm sorry if it's been explained before, when it comes to these things, my brain hits a blind corner :-(

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Are you using the library spreadsheet?

 

The way I did this was to note the total in the interest column and then charge the date on the computer by one day (don't forget to switch it back afterwards). Note the total in the interest column and deduct it from the previous total. The difference is your daily rate.

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Yes, that's what I did. But what I was asking is whether the daily rate is based on the original charges or the total, (charges + interest). The way you've done it, it is on the original charges only, is that right?

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The way I did this was to note the total in the interest column and then charge the date on the computer by one day (don't forget to switch it back afterwards). Note the total in the interest column and deduct it from the previous total. The difference is your daily rate.

 

I used a slightly different way.....:)

I added 2 columns to the spreadsheet - "Claim Date" and "Daily Interest at 8% APR".

 

In the "Claim Date" column, I put the date I intend to issue my claim - then, in the "Days Since Charge" column, modify the formula to be the "Claim Date" value minus the "Date Charged" value. Copy'n'paste all the way down the list of charges.

 

In the "Daily Interest" column, the formula is just the previous "Interest at 8% APR" column divided by the "Days Since Charge" column. Copy'n'paste all the way down the list of charges. Added a box at the bottom to add up the amounts of daily interest to give the daily rate.

 

This way it doesn't matter when your actual claim date is, you just change it in the "Claim Date" column and copy'n'paste all the way down again.

 

BTW I have a modified version of the spreadsheet available, if someone wants it for the library?

 

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Good luck with this one - better clear some space in the fridge for all the champagne!

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Hello, people!:D

 

My postman has just brought me a letter. And attached to the letter, is a cheque for total payment. EMOTICHEERLEADER.gif

 

HOWEVER, before I break open the champagne, there's just a teeny-weeny flaw... They want confidentiality. I ask you, they want me to keep my mouth shut. Like I could even if I wanted to! :rolleyes:

 

So, I shall be writing back to say that I will NOT accept any kind of conditions attached to them paying me back MY money, and if they want to proceed to defend the claim, as they intimate they will if I don't agree to confidentiality, let it be so. :p The cheek of those people, grrr.

 

Reason given for settling is "not commercially viable to defend", btw.

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Hmmm - what to do? Take the money and be quiet, or carry on telling it like it is. I think I'd...tell them where to get off if it was me :eek:

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well done bookworm!!

 

and congratulations!! :D

Natasha

 

Abbey-received DPA letter on 13/03, received some breakdown till 2004 waiting for the more recent ones(where most charges occurred)

sent reminder email on 17/4/06

called abbey on 19/04/06 to remind them:rolleyes:

sent another email on 26/04/06:mad:

Approx charges £2500

received £500 refund in dec 06

sent LBA

Capital one- sent DPA letter 17/03

Sent prim letter for charges of £260 14/04

Received a refund £109 awaiting further refund of £151

Settled IN FULL

Barclay card- Sent DPA letter 17/03 sent reminder 14/04

received info claiming £120

settled in FULL

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They have already sent you the cheque. So deposit the cheque and ignore the confidentiality clause as you haven't signed anything!!!!

Well done btw.

 

Unfortunately not. They have written: "By accepting this payment, you are agreeing not to court publicity, or disclose or refer to any 3rd party, the background to this matter, and also to keep the terms of this settlement strictly private and confidential". And then again further down, an other sentence reitarating this...

 

So it's implicit that if I cash the cheque, I've agreed to their terms. So no go, even though I'm pretty desperate for the money. It's my money, I will NOT let them dictate the terms.

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You are right that you can't accept the cheque on those terms and not be bound by them.

 

Why do you want to reply?

 

You've issued the claim. They haven't satsified the claim so let the time run and apply for a judgment if they don't defend. If they do then see what they have to say.

 

I don't think that you should reply at all. I think that you should do nothing and let it dawn on them that you are not playing. Let them blink first.

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hello fellow fighter.i am currently ready to issue procceedings to nat west and although my current account got into a hell of a mess as a result of these unlawful charges i am sad to say so did my mortgage. although i paid off my mortgate 3 years ago can i find out if any charges were applied and if so am i able to claim them back .would be grateful if you could lend me some advise.kind regards,kenny ward.(fellow bank chargefighter)

Hi

Want to send a letter for my wife...what is the best address for stage 1??

 

also

 

I used to work for Natwest(I know,I know) but in mortgages, but knew and still know a lot of the premium and bank managers.Believe it or not the are in the main nice people who are being constantly hit over the head by Natwest to achieve unreasonale targets.They are told not to refund charges and in fact are pushed to charge more for(business)overdarft renews and biz loans.Most of these people are there becuae they have been tied in just like customers are with charges.

 

I personaaly found Natwest ok to work for before RBS took over.They are not run by senior manager without the first idea or care about customer service...it is all sales,sales,sales!!!

 

rant over.

 

PM me if you need any natwest inside info and I will try and help. :D

let the games begin.

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Bookworm YOU ARE BRAVE!:eek:

 

I dont know...maybe i would have crumbled

 

I totally agree you cant accept the cheque on their terms to keep one's gob shut!

 

They will have to cough up some more dosh or back off me thinks!

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