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    • Euro have got a lot wrong and have failed to comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4.  According to Section 13 after ECP have written to Arval they should then send a NTH to the Hirer  which they have done.This eliminates Arval from any further pursuit by ECP. When they wrote to your company they should have sent copies of everything that they asked Arval for. This is to prove that your company agree what happened on the day of the breach. If ECP then comply with the Act they are allowed to pursue the hirer. If they fail, to comply they cannot make the hirer pay. They can pursue until they are blue in the face but the Hirer is not lawfully required to pay them and if it went to Court ECP would lose. Your company could say who was driving but the only person that can be pursued is the Hirer, there does not appear to be an extension for a driver to be pursued. Even if there was, because ECP have failed miserably to comply with the Act  they still have no chance of winning in Court. Here are the relevant Hire sections from the Act below.
    • Thank-you FTMDave for your feedback. May I take this opportunity to say that after reading numerous threads to which you are a contributor, I have great admiration for you. You really do go above and beyond in your efforts to help other people. The time you put in to help, in particular with witness statements is incredible. I am also impressed by the way in which you will defer to others with more experience should there be a particular point that you are not 100% clear on and return with answers or advice that you have sought. I wish I had the ability to help others as you do. There is another forum expert that I must also thank for his time and patience answering my questions and allowing me to come to a “penny drops” moment on one particular issue. I believe he has helped me immensely to understand and to strengthen my own case. I shall not mention who it is here at the moment just in case he would rather I didn't but I greatly appreciate the time he took working through that issue with me. I spent 20+ years of working in an industry that rules and regulations had to be strictly adhered to, indeed, exams had to be taken in order that one had to become qualified in those rules and regulations in order to carry out the duties of the post. In a way, such things as PoFA 2012 are rules and regulations that are not completely alien to me. It has been very enjoyable for me to learn these regulations and the law surrounding them. I wish I had found this forum years ago. I admit that perhaps I had been too keen to express my opinions given that I am still in the learning process. After a suitable period in this industry I became Qualified to teach the rules and regulations and I always said to those I taught that there is no such thing as a stupid question. If opinions, theories and observations are put forward, discussion can take place and as long as the result is that the student is able to clearly see where they went wrong and got to that moment where the penny drops then that is a valuable learning experience. No matter how experienced one is, there is always something to learn and if I did not know the answer to a question, I would say, I don't know the answer to that question but I will go and find out what the answer is. In any posts I have made, I have stated, “unless I am wrong” or “as far as I can see” awaiting a response telling me what I got wrong, if it was wrong. If I am wrong I am only too happy to admit it and take it as a valuable learning experience. I take the point that perhaps I should not post on other peoples threads and I shall refrain from doing so going forward. 🤐 As alluded to, circumstances can change, FTMDave made the following point that it had been boasted that no Caggers, over two years, who had sent a PPC the wrong registration snotty letter, had even been taken to court, let alone lost a court hearing .... but now they have. I too used the word "seemed" because it is true, we haven't had all the details. After perusing this forum I believe certain advice changed here after the Beavis case, I could be wrong but that is what I seem to remember reading. Could it be that after winning the above case in question, a claimant could refer back to this case and claim that a defendant had not made use of the appeal process, therefore allowing the claimant to win? Again, in this instance only, I do not know what is to be gained by not making an appeal or concealing the identity of the driver, especially if it is later admitted that the defendant was the driver and was the one to input the incorrect VRN in error. So far no one has educated me as to the reason why. But, of course, when making an appeal, it should be worded carefully so that an error in the appeal process cannot be referred back to. I thought long and hard about whether or not to post here but I wanted to bring up this point for discussion. Yes, I admit I have limited knowledge, but does that mean I should have kept silent? After I posted that I moved away from this forum slightly to find other avenues to increase my knowledge. I bought a law book and am now following certain lawyers on Youtube in the hope of arming myself with enough ammunition to use in my own case. In one video titled “7 Reasons You Will LOSE Your Court Case (and how to avoid them)” by Black Belt Barrister I believe he makes my point by saying the following, and I quote: “If you ignore the complaint in the first instance and it does eventually end up in court then it's going to look bad that you didn't co-operate in the first place. The court is not going to look kindly on you simply ignoring the company and not, let's say, availing yourself of any kind of appeal opportunities, particularly if we are talking about parking charge notices and things like that.” This point makes me think that, it is not such a bizarre judgement in the end. Only in the case of having proof of payment and inputting an incorrect VRN .... could it be worthwhile making a carefully worded appeal in the first instance? .... If the appeal fails, depending on the reason, surely this could only help if it went to court? As always, any feedback gratefully received.
    • To which official body does one make a formal complaint about a LPA fixed charge receiver? Does one make a complaint first to the company employing the appointed individuals?    Or can one complain immediately to an official body, such as nara?    I've tried researching but there doesn't seem a very clear route on how to legally hold them to account for wrongful behaviour.  It seems frustratingly complicated because they are considered to be officers of the court and held in high esteem - and the borrower is deemed liable for their actions.  Yet what does the borrower do when disclosure shows clear evidence of wrong-doing? Does anyone have any pointers please?
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Just for record, back in the days when it was a well run family firm (prior to CCS' collections acquisition) Birchalls bailiffs Ltd actually used to issue guidance on the back of their distress warrents stating that tools could NOT be taken unless the debt related to non domestic rates.

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Am I right that it has taken over 2 months to get a response from ACEA ?

 

It has taken over 2 months but not without contact. I first wrote to the ACEA 20th July. I received an acknowledgement within the appropiate time, then a request for further info (2nd Aug) then a letter stating that they were waiting for a report from JBW. In my response 2nd Aug I sent copies to ACEA of reply I had from JBW,. statement from bailiff, breakdown of charges etc. In the final letter received from ACEA (21st Sept) they sent me copies of the report they received from JBW and it was exactly the same thing I had already sent to ACEA on the 2nd Aug.

I am now waiting for a reply (27th Sept post above) gave them 7 days in which to responed.

 

In my original complaint to JBW/ACEA I made a referrence to 'Culligan v Marstons' case, in the reply from ACEA 21st Sept they stated as follows:

I do not believe that this case is of any assistance to you for the following reasons:

1. That case is a county court case which has no binding effect on any other court.

2. That case predominantly centred upon a charge made from immobilisation which did not happen in your case. (I don't no this for sure, the vehicle could have been clamped while the bailiff was waiting for the tow truck).

3. One of the other features of that case was that the bailiff was found not to have allowed any time for payment between seizure of the vehicle

and its removel. My understanding of your case was that you had the opportunity to pay before the removel of your vehicle but the part payment you offered was not acceptable. (when I returned home the tow truck was already there and the rear wheels of my van were already off the ground. Could this be that the vehicle had already been seized before I was given the opportunity to pay.)

 

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Can anyone help. I am now in the process of taking court action and done a search on the certified bailiff register, but the bailiff concerned in my case does not appear. In the response from JBW they claim that the bailiff no longer works for them.

 

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send tomtubby a PM if you need help she is the best person to help you if you are taking court action against JBW

 

 

 

If you phone the Ministry of Justice Public Register of bailiffslink3.gif on 020 3334 6355 they will confirm if xxxx has ever been a bailiff with JBW(or if he has ever been certificated as a bailiff) and the dates of his employment with them

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send tomtubby a PM if you need help she is the best person to help you if you are taking court action against JBW

 

 

 

If you phone the Ministry of Justice Public Register of bailiffslink3.gif on 020 3334 6355 they will confirm if xxxx has ever been a bailiff with JBW(or if he has ever been certificated as a bailiff) and the dates of his employment with them

 

Just called the Ministry of Justice and they confirmed that the bailiff concerned is regisiterd as a self empolyed bailiff.

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Just called the Ministry of Justice and they confirmed that the bailiff concerned is registered as a self employed bailiff.

 

 

now you need to get in touch with the council and find out if they allow there contractors JBW to use self employed bailiffs

 

 

a lot of councils have it written into there contract that the bailiff firm cant use self employed bailiffs

 

have you named the council as joint defendants as you should be taking both JBW and the council to court

 

 

can someone advise if the op can send a freedom of information request to the council for a copy of this contract I THINK i have seen tomtubby refer to it as a service Level agreement

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Yes, the council will provide their service level agreement / Code of conduct for bailiffs. Makes interesting reading and in my case did say no subcontracted bailiffs which I would read as no self employed either.

 

You must include the council as co defendant and would also make a formal complaint, escalate through their stages and then take it to the Government ombudsman who will take notice of it.

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Yes, the council will provide their service level agreement / Code of conduct for bailiffs. Makes interesting reading and in my case did say no subcontracted bailiffs which I would read as no self employed either.

 

You must include the council as co defendant and would also make a formal complaint, escalate through their stages and then take it to the Government ombudsman who will take notice of it.

 

Called the council today, and they have requested that any info I need has to be made in writing, so a letter is in the post today.

 

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Update. Well it's taken a long time but finally had a reply from the ACEA. They cannot find any grounds upon which to uphold my complaint, due to the fact that there was no signs on the van to indicate that the vehicle was a trade vehicle and that no tools were visible inside the vehicle and that the vehicle is insured for both bussiness and social, domestic and pleasure purposes, indicates that the vehicle is not an exempt vehicle.

So before I proceed with court action I have written again to the ACEA to ask them to provide any legal information that requires my van to be sign written in order for it to be classed as a trade vehicle, and also to explain how the bailiff could not see any tools or equipment inside a locked vehicle that has no windows.

 

Well time has passed and as expected the ACEA have not replied to my request above. Gave them 7 days in which to reply and it has now been over 2 weeks so will now continue with court action once a hear back from the local authority concerned.

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Just called the Ministry of Justice and they confirmed that the bailiff concerned is registered as a self employed bailiff.

 

 

now you need to get in touch with the council and find out if they allow there contractors JBW to use self employed bailiffs

 

 

a lot of councils have it written into there contract that the bailiff firm cant use self employed bailiffs

 

have you named the council as joint defendants as you should be taking both JBW and the council to court

 

 

can someone advise if the op can send a freedom of information request to the council for a copy of this contract I THINK i have seen tomtubby refer to it as a service Level agreement

 

 

Letter arrived today 8th Nov and the council have confirmed that it does not allow its bailiff contractors to use self employed bailiffs.

 

So what does this mean, is the process (in my case) null and void and/ illeagal........

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Hello and welcome to CAG.

 

I don't think we recommend doing that, gasbo, could cause further problems.

 

This thread is 9 years old, by the way.

 

Best, HB

 

well i did it and it didnt cause me any further problems...kept the lock as a souvenir...direct action is sometimes better than legalese nonsense

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well i did it and it didnt cause me any further problems...kept the lock as a souvenir...direct action is sometimes better than legalese nonsense

 

Up until the point where you discover you were seen to do it, and get a conviction for criminal damage ......

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