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    • thread title updated. so a sold debt. who are the solicitors? TM legal? why didn't ovo do this themselves as they do but chose to sell the debt on for 10p=£1? funny debt you state you reived a letter of claim, why did you not reply too it.? also is there is no indication of the date this bill comes from on the claimform? how do you know its from 2022? what other previous paperwork have you received? please scan page 1 of the claimform and bothsides of ALL previous letters upto one mass pdf read upload carefully. .................. pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’. Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time. You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID. You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.  then log in to the bulk court Website https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/466952-lowelloverdales-claimform-old-cap1-debt/?do=findComment&comment=5260464 .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website get a CPR  31:14  request running to the solicitors [if one is not listed send to the claimant] ... https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332546-legal-cpr-3114-request-request-for-information-when-a-claim-has-been-issued/ type your name ONLY Do Not sign anything .do not ever use or give an email . you DO NOT await the return of ANY paperwork  you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform [1 in the count] ..............  
    • Thank you again. I'm hoping it will come out in the wash and will endeavour to check my online account. I'm a bit unsettled by not hearing from Booking.com but the host is sounding helpful at the moment. HB
    • I've just remembered that a friend of mine had bookings cancelled on Booking.com about a month ago - and the good news is that all worked out in the wash. I'm at work now but will scribble properly in a couple of hours with the full tale.
    • Thank you Dave. I've had nothing from Booking.com, just a message via the site from the host. I know I need to check my bank account, just trying to resolve some technical issues. HB  
    • Which Court have you received the claim from ? Civil National Business Centre Name of the Claimant ? JC INTERNATIONAL AQUISITION How many defendant's  joint or self ? Self Date of issue – 22 May 2024  Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – 1. The def owes the claimant £300 in respect of gas and electricity charges supplied by OVO. 2. Debt was assigned to the claimant with notice given to the def. 3. Despite formal demand the def has failed to pay the debt and the claimant claims £300 and further claims interest pursuant to s69 of the CCA 1984. What is the total value of the claim? £385 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? Yes   Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No   Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? Energy debt When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? After Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? Moved home and they were the current energy supplier  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 assigned to JC International Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? Not sure probably  Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? Again can't remember but probably  Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ? No Why did you cease payments? Changed supplier What was the date of your last payment? Never  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? No
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Government’s economic strategy dealt a serious blow after a leading credit ratings agency Moody's downgrades UK debt.

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The Queen's bra-maker is to start selling its lingerie outside the South for the first time since the brand was founded by a Jewish refugee in 1939.

 

 

 

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Eurozone strugglers to win more time to cut their deficits

 

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EU will cut fines for banks to end its probe into Libor

 

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The European Union is hoping to wrap up its investigation into the Libor-fixing scandal by offering banks the chance to settle with reduced fines, it emerged yesterday.

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Business secretary Vince Cable says the UK's loss of its its AAA credit rating is "largely symbolic" and there are "positive" signs for the economy.

 

 

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Apple drops a planned vote of shareholders after a US judge blocked the move in an ongoing spat over what to do with the tech giant's huge cash pile.

 

 

 

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Up to £645m in forgotten funds in bank accounts has been returned in the past five years, a tracing service run by the financial industry says.

 

 

 

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Chancellor must 'ease pace' of austerity in wake of UK downgrade

 

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One of the biggest global fund managers, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, has called for the Government to “ease the pace” of austerity in the wake of the UK’s credit rating downgrade.

Does it matter that the UK has been stripped of its AAA credit rating?

 

 

UK credit rating downgrade: what next?

 

 

Britain will take years to earn back AAA rating, says Ken Clarke

 

 

Cable plays down impact of UK downgrade

 

 

RBS to cut investment bank to stem losses

 

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RBS is to reduce the size of its investment bank by as much as £30bn and cut hundreds more jobs as the taxpayer-backed lender attempts to head off growing government pressure to close down the controversial division.

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RBS mis-selling bill may exceed £1bn

 

 

Stephen Hester: the man with the toughest job in UK banking

 

 

Time to stop this tiring interfering with Britain's banks

 

 

RBS to unveil £8bn US bank float

 

 

 

Ex-Lloyds directors face second axe on bonuses

 

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Lloyds Banking Group is to cut a further £1m to £2m from the bonuses of former directors, including ex-chief executive Eric Daniels, as a result of its spiralling payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling provisions.

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Barclays looks for £7bn to shore up balance sheet

 

 

 

London high streets enjoy increasing demand

 

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A group of high streets in London outside of the core tourist destinations are growing in popularity and stature as retailers struggle to find affordable sites on Oxford Street and Bond Street.

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Monsoon accused of shameless supply squeeze

 

 

 

Mike Lynch issues immigration plea

 

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Mike Lynch, the former chief executive of Autonomy has said highly skilled immigrants should be welcomed to Britain as they would start new businesses and create jobs.

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Lynch: the US has a much more 'can-do' attitude

 

 

 

Shell in Arctic oil risk alert

 

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Failings identified on a Shell ship drilling in the Arctic have raised questions about the energy giant's plans to extract oil in the region.

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Francois Hollande: no more austerity this year

 

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France will not introduce any further austerity measures this year but instead focus on spending cuts in 2014 to bring its deficit down to 3pc of GDP that year, French president Francois Hollande said on Saturday.

Britain's credit downgrade is a call to live within our means

 

Trade protectionism looms next as central banks exhaust QE

 

Does it matter that the UK has been stripped of its AAA credit rating?

 

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So, does it matter that the UK has lost its much-prized AAA credit rating?

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UK credit rating downgrade: what next?

 

 

 

 

Trade protectionism looms next as central banks exhaust QE

 

 

 

 

Chancellor must 'ease pace' of austerity in wake of UK credit rating downgrade

If DEBT is the problem REPAYMENT is the solution

 

Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

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High Debt and Falling Demand Trap New Vets

 

By DAVID SEGAL

 

 

The cost of veterinarian school has far outpaced the rate of inflation. Meanwhile, there is a boom in supply (that is, vets), and a decline in demand for services.

 

 

 

 

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Students at Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine on St. Kitts examined a cat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States

 

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

 

Major banks have become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday lenders that offer loans with interest rates that can exceed 500 percent.

 

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Don’t Call Him Mom, or an Imbecile

 

By HANNAH SELIGSON

 

The hapless, bumbling father is a stock character in product marketing. The so-called daddy bloggers who attended the recent Dad 2.0 Summit are pushing to change that.

 

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Ahead of Trial, Talk of a BP Settlement in 2010 Oil Spill

 

By BARRY MEIER and CLIFFORD KRAUSS

 

With a major civil trial scheduled to start Monday against BP, federal officials and the five affected Gulf Coast states are trying to pull together to strike an 11th-hour settlement.

 

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Hard Budget Realities as Agencies Prepare to Detail Reductions

 

By JONATHAN WEISMAN and ANNIE LOWREY

 

By the end of this week, federal agencies will notify governors, private contractors and other stakeholders of the dollars they would be about to lose if across-the-board budget cuts go into effect.

 

 

Digital Domain

 

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There Is an Algorithm for Everything, Even Bras

 

By RANDALL STROSS

 

After a frustrating two-and-a-half-hour fitting room ordeal, Michelle Lam helped launch a company to match women with bras online.

 

Unboxed

 

SimCity, for Real: Measuring an Untidy Metropolis

 

By STEVE LOHR

 

An initiative at New York University is joining a global drive to apply modern sensor, computing and data-sifting technologies to urban environments.

 

Workstation

 

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How Offices Become Complaint Departments

 

By PHYLLIS KORKKI

 

Experts in workplace psychology say that some of the inevitable complaining by employees is helpful, even necessary, but that it can also become toxic.

 

The Boss

 

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An Average Traveler

 

By STEPHEN KAUFER

 

Stephen Kaufer, the chief executive of TripAdvisor, developed his company after a frustrating search for hotel advice online.

If DEBT is the problem REPAYMENT is the solution

 

Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

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Governors Say Uncertainty Over Cuts Hurting U.S.

 

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

 

Governors in both parties warned of the potentially damaging consequences if President Obama and Congress do not agree on a plan before Friday to avoid deep spending cuts.

 

Standoff Over Medicare Is at Heart of the Fiscal Fight

 

By JOHN HARWOOD

 

As a result of the changing dispute between parties over Medicare, President Obama’s ability to deliver a bipartisan compromise on entitlement spending may be waning.

 

 

 

Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States

 

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG

 

Major banks have become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday lenders that offer loans with interest rates that can exceed 500 percent.

If DEBT is the problem REPAYMENT is the solution

 

Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

I will pay for my own stupidity but not for the stupidity of others.

 

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Bottom Line: Why We Must Stop Deficits NOW

Here's the bottom line folks:

 

 

These are the major spending items in the US Budget, from 1980 to today. I am ignoring all the ones that don't matter, and I'm also intentionally leaving in one foil often used by both sides of the debate for scale purposes (Education.)

Of particular interest (and alarm) is Welfare, which doubled from 2007 to 2010. But -- it appears to have come down some in the least two years and change. Therefore, while this is a problem, it is not the emergent one.

Those are the three categories on the top -- Pensions (Social Security, mostly), Health Care and Defense.

 

More at the link.

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Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

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More Fed Follies.... Paper

This one's rich:

“The combination of a massively expanded central bank balance sheet and an unsustainable public debt trajectory is a mix that has the potential to substantially reduce the flexibility of monetary policy,” the economists write. “This mix could induce a bias toward slower exit or easier policy, and be seen as the first step toward fiscal dominance. It could thereby be the cause of longer-term inflation expectations and raise the risk of inflation overall.”

There is no flexibility and it is the direct and proximate consequence of Congress and The Adminstration ignoring the fundamental realities of arithmetic -- specifically, the properties of exponents -- that have led to this.

 

More at the link.

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Philly Fed: Now You're F*ed

That will be the end of that debate.

The survey’s broadest measure of manufacturing conditions, the diffusion index of current activity, decreased from a reading -5.8 in January to -12.5 this month (see Chart). The demand for manufactured goods also showed slight declines this month: The new orders index declined from a reading of 04.3 in January to -7.8 in February. Despite negative readings for general activity and new orders, the shipments index showed improvement: The index remained positive and edged slightly higher to 2.4. The percentage of firms reporting increased shipments (25 percent) was slightly greater than the percentage reporting declines (22 percent).

That's not good.

 

More at the link.

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Well Look What We Have Here! (Health Care Scams)

 

I'll be damned.

Dozens of midpriced items were embedded with similarly aggressive markups, like $283.00 for a “CHEST, PA AND LAT 71020.” That’s a simple chest X-ray, for which MD Anderson is routinely paid $20.44 when it treats a patient on Medicare, the government health care program for the elderly.

More than a 10x -- that is more than 1,000% -- mark-up.

You'll find dozens of examples in this article.

 

Got to love the free market....

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Here It Comes: The Fed Knows

I usually do a fairly-exhaustive post on the Fed Minutes.

There's no point this time, unless you want to be bored (or amused), so I'll simply focus on the part that matters.

Policy was also aimed at improving the labor market outlook. In this regard, several participants stressed the economic and social costs of high unemployment, as well as the potential for negative effects on the economy’s longer-term path of a prolonged period of underutilization of resources. However,
many participants also expressed some concerns about potential costs and risks arising from further asset purchases. Several participants discussed the possible complications that additional purchases could cause for the eventual withdrawal of policy accommodation, a few mentioned the prospect of inflationary risks, and some noted that further asset purchases could foster market behavior that could undermine financial stability. Several participants noted that a very large portfolio of long-duration assets would, under certain circumstances, expose the Federal Reserve to significant capital losses when these holdings were unwound,
but others pointed to offsetting factors and one noted that losses would not impede the effective operation of monetary policy.

Let's lay it out there for you folks.

The Fed has a "line in the sand" beyond which they take actual capital losses on their portfolio.

 

More at the link.

If DEBT is the problem REPAYMENT is the solution

 

Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

I will pay for my own stupidity but not for the stupidity of others.

 

Remember, profits are privatised, losses are socialised.

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Remember, profits are privatised, losses are socialised.

That's the 21-century Free Market.

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If DEBT is the problem REPAYMENT is the solution

 

Debt revenue doesn't equal tax revenue

 

I will pay for my own stupidity but not for the stupidity of others.

 

Remember, profits are privatised, losses are socialised.

That's the 21-century Free Market.

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