Civil Enforcement County Court Claim ?

[lorrainew]

Hi, could someone help please?

 

About 18 months ago I received a parking ticket from Civil Enforcement Limited.

 

I went online and the advice was to ignore it..

 

I did but now I have a county court claim against me for £373.00.

 

I have now been told my credit rating is very poor,

 

what can I do?

[ims21]

Thread moved to Private Parking forum.

 

Do you mean that you have received a claim form which needs to defended or have they actually got a judgement against you?

[lorrainew]

I have just looked at my credit rating and can see an active county court claim from civil enforcement ltd at Northampton county court. My other credit is up to date..

[lorrainew]

Told many times online to ignore my letters/ threats from Civil Enforcement Limited, now my credit rating is poor as I have found out that I have a Active county court claim against me. What can I do about this please..

[dx100uk]

well you ignore everything bar court papers!

 

now what have you had from them?

 

a county court claimform

 

or

a CCJ judgement

 

or

nothing has come ever from the court?

 

dx

[lorrainew]

I had a letter months ago saying that they were taking me to court on .. or I could pay.. but I just ignored it. Heard nothing else, now want to remortgage and my credit rating is poor as there is a Active county court judgement on my record..

[dx100uk]

who sent that letter?

 

they cant just get one without the court sending you a claim form first

to give you a chance to defend yourself.

 

is the CCJ date the same ish as the letter?

 

not moved recently have you

and they sent the claim to another address

[lorrainew]

I am sorry but I was so fed up with it I just ripped it up. I think it had the court stamp on it, I thought it was another threatening letter. I did not know it was real.. Have heard nothing since, only found out when I did a credit search today.

[dx100uk]

oh dear that was silly.

 

dx

[esmerobbo]

Unfortunately your best option is to pay it. It will at least show as satisfied, once you receive a claim if you don't defend it it will be granted as a default judgement.

 

You could apply to have it set aside which would cost you £80 but I doubt a Judge would allow it if you tell them you just ignored the claim.

 

18 months ago was before POFA that would have been an easy defence at court, in fact CEL would not have taken it to a hearing if defended.

[themagician]

Unfortunately your best option is to pay it. It will at least show as satisfied, once you receive a claim if you don't defend it it will be granted as a default judgement.

 

You could apply to have it set aside which would cost you £80 but I doubt a Judge would allow it if you tell them you just ignored the claim.

 

18 months ago was before POFA that would have been an easy defence at court, in fact CEL would not have taken it to a hearing if defended.

reply removed as said in jest and not to be taken seriously!.

Edited November 9, 2013 by themagician

[BRIGADIER2JCS]

I would go for a set aside as you probably didn't receive it DID YOU! but that's me.

 

Not a wise move!

[kirkbyinfurnesslad]

I would go for a set aside as you probably didn't receive it DID YOU! but that's me.

 

That is one of the worst pieces of advice i have seen on here.

 

It really takes the biscuit that you come on here and suggest someone lies in court !!!

 

What you are suggesting is someone commits a criminal act.

 

Prehaps you would like to retract your last statement ?

[Sidewinder]

Agreed. Please so not encourage people to commit an act of perjury. Remember this is a public forum and your comments could be taken as advice offered by this site.

 

For the sake of clarity, in the rare cases where Court papers are issued, these should NEVER be ignored, but a defence formulated (and many can help with that).

 

I fear that the OP will now need to get this paid ASAP - threats can be dealt with but a CC claim should not, and more recent advice would be to appeal directly to the PPC and to then take the case to POPLA rather than to ignore. That would at least allow the PPC to see that you might have a good defence to a speculative court claim.

[DBC]

It seems that CEL are pulling out of quite a few court papers, if a good defence is put forward. It's a matter of who blinks first. In most cases its CEL.

[themagician]

That is one of the worst pieces of advice i have seen on here.

 

It really takes the biscuit that you come on here and suggest someone lies in court !!!

 

What you are suggesting is someone commits a criminal act.

 

Prehaps you would like to retract your last statement ?

I agree! was said in jest, so please disregard this as an informative suggestion to your particular demenar.as I was assuming that the ppc's allegedly apply the same ethics as this.

[Sidewinder]

Appreciate the retraction and you are of course correct with regard to the ethics or lack thereof on the part of many PPCs.

 

Unfortunately those ethics also extend to selective use of posts on forums such as this which is why we have to be absolutely clear on the subject - any reasonable person would know that you were being ironic, but we are not dealing with reasonable people

[themagician]

Appreciate the retraction and you are of course correct with regard to the ethics or lack thereof on the part of many PPCs.

 

Unfortunately those ethics also extend to selective use of posts on forums such as this which is why we have to be absolutely clear on the subject - any reasonable person would know that you were being ironic, but we are not dealing with reasonable people

thanks for that "ironic" that's the word I was after! life goes on. cheers