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    • Thank you. You contacted directly with the parcel broker so your best option is to proceed directly against them for breach of contract. I hope you have read enough to understand that you will not be able to rely on the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Do you understand why? Have Parcel to Go giving you a reason for declining reimbursement? Do you have anything in writing from your customer which shows that they did not refuse delivery and which identifies the actual circumstances of the situation?
    • 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.
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      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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My girlfriend neglected to tell me she got a ticket for not displaying a pay and display ticket.

 

however when the NTO arrived the accompanied picture did not show the ticket attached to the car..

 

im currently writing to them now asking for evidence that the ticket was issued correctly..

 

what i want to know is what can i ask for and what rules are they required to follow...

 

Email so far

Hi,

My Girlfriend has just notified me she recieved a NTO for her car #######.

Could you provide me the following so that i can ascertain that the
issue of this NTO was correct as she has no recollection of a parking ticket placed on her window.

I require:

Photographs of the contravention, including images showing the ticket displayed.
etc 
etc

Many thanks

Mr .

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As it's not your liability, the Council is unlikely to correspond with you - your girlfriend should request photos. However they might do if you try.

 

If they won't give them to you, I would strongly advise that she does not request them in writing. If she sends them a letter or email of any type, it could be viewed as an appeal letter (whatever it says!) and she will have used up her right of appeal. She should ask by phone.

 

Having said that, whether they have photos or not, and whether you get to see them or not will not affect your case. Lack of photos will not win you an appeal, unless you can strongly argue that no PCN was ever served. From what you say, it was served - she knew about the PCN but "neglected to tell you" - so it must have been served and there are bound to be photos. Either way, she'll need a better line of appeal than that.

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It may be preferred or even 'best practice', but it is simply additional support, nothing more. If the PA asserts he witnessed a breach of the regulations, his work will be fine. There are many excuses (reasons!) why photographs are not provided, anything from user error to technical difficulties, but I have yet to hear of cancellation on the basis of no photograph (effectively discounting any statement from the PA).

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The Adjudication service disagrees with you buzby,

 

See

Steven Mark Pasha v London Borough ofWaltham Forest

 

Case No. : 2090279728

 

"Whilst the notes do not say this expressly, the CEO appears implicitly to be explaining the absence of photographs by the fact that the driver drove off before the CEO was able to take any. This is not entirely convincing, since it is common practice to take some photographs of the vehicle before the Penalty Charge Notice is issued. Of course, photographs are not required, but they are now generally taken and the failure to take any requires clear explanation"

 

As I said earlier where it is policy to take photographs the absence of photos has gone against councils.

Did you think I was making it up ?

 

And why discourage a poster from a valid point that has been found in other cases ?

We post here to help others.

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With due respect to you Lamma, I don't think Buzby was trying to discourage the OP. I think it's just a case of clarifying the strength of the argument. I agree with Buzby that this would not win a case on its own. The case you cite is interesting but it appears to be a dispute over whether the PCN was served at all, and the fact that the vehicle left the scene. In such a scenario, there is room for doubt as to whether the CEO was prevented from serving the PCN, and this then becomes an issue of weight of evidence.

 

In the case we're looking at now, there was no drive away and so there is no logical reason why the PCN would not have been served. Therefore, there seems to be no mileage in disputing it on the basis of lack of photographic evidence. I see the adjudicator's comment "the failure to take any [photos] requires clear explanation" but it seems to be clutching at straws if we are to hope there is not an explanation. Indeed, he probably did take some.

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I also post to ensure reasonable expectations are met. The situation you describe is a different issue. If an authority/adjudicator insists on a photo, fine. That's what they'll work with. However, I can assure you that to obtain a win there is nothing in statute that requires any photograph to be supplied. If this was the case, I would have been let off with all of mine. Issues that the car drove off before the ticket was affixed is erroneous. The offence had already been committed, are you saying not only there must be a ticket attached to the windscreen, but there has to be a picture of it as well?

 

In your dreams, perhaps.

 

Photographic evidence is helpful to the authority to show it's compliance, but certainly no more than that. If what you describe happened, then great news for parkers in that area, but let's not kid the OP that this is the way it always works.

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"which is why I gave an applicable case name and reference.

very applicable as the case shows that " If the PA asserts he witnessed a breach of the regulations, his work will be fine" is just not so.

this adjudication shows just the opposite !.

 

If it is council policy to take photos and they haven't then they have some explaining to do.

this has gone against councils in adjudications.

 

Look up the case.

See the full paragraph

" Whilst the notes do not say this expressly, the CEO appears implicitly to be explaining the absence of photographs by the fact that the driver drove off before the CEO was able to take any. This is not entirely convincing, since it is common practice to take some photographs of the vehicle before the Penalty Charge Notice is issued. Of course, photographs are not required, but they are now generally taken and the failure to take any requires clear explanation. On the evidence I have I do not consider it would be safe to conclude either that the contravention occurred or that the Penalty Charge Notice was served.

Will it swing every case on its own ? no, never said it would

are adjudicators consistent ? no

is it significant enough to use - for sure yes it is. It helps the poster's case.Especially as he can now quote the exact case in his own appeal.

 

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And if this is one if the 100's of council's that don't have this policy? It's a pretty lame stab at a defence. The smart money would be to find out first, and take the discount if it's not going to go your way. NOT fight on an expectation that won't be realised!

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Hi, sorry to hear this. I had a lot of help from http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?showforum=30 they are brilliant and specialise in motoring issues. Scan ALL your documents to pdf received to date and post them up there, be sure to edit out your personal and ticket number details. They found several faults with mine which prevented them from enforcing the PCN, also found the signage was defective and that the TRO was unenforceable. My car was broken down at the time as well...

 

Hope that helps and good luck!

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And if this is one if the 100's of council's that don't have this policy? It's a pretty lame stab at a defence. The smart money would be to find out first, and take the discount if it's not going to go your way. NOT fight on an expectation that won't be realised!

 

Which is why my post start with the clear qualifier "If it is council policy to take photos "

 

The quoted case then comes in.

 

But instead of attacking my posts that show what may help the poster why not just ask him which council it is ?

 

The smart money would be on looking at all the different ways the council can have messed up and been non-compliant rather than just giving your money away.

The appeal stats bear this out.

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