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    • Good evening, so not a good weekend reviewing paperwork -- I have lost some proofs of postage.. also, although not provided at CCA, they have now supplied a DN in their WS, please see scan of claimants WS (without statements) Document with tick boxes as signatures doesn't look like an agreement and is split across pages. Documents have been stapled and copied multiple times looking at the top left of them. Aside from that, having read other threads, I suspect they have everything? appreciate your input please Sorry for heavy redactions, I noticed the paperwork was see-through LinkHalifaxCC1.compressed.pdf
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None of these documents were received by the court nor the defendant by that date.   2.        I understand that the claimant is an Assignee, a buyer of defunct or bad debts, which are bought on mass portfolios at a much reduced cost to the amount claimed and which the original creditors have already wrote off as a capital loss and claimed against taxable income as confirmed in the claimants witness statement exhibit by way of the Deed of Assignment.   As an assignee or creditor as defined in section 189 of the CCA this applies to this new requirement on assignment of rights.  This means that when an assignee purchases debts (or otherwise acquires rights under a credit agreement) it also acquires certain obligations to the borrower including the duty to comply with CCA requirements (such as the rules on statements and notices and other post-contractual information).  The assignee becomes the creditor under the agreement. This ensures that essential consumer protections under the CCA cannot be circumvented by assigning the debt to a third party.   3.        The alleged letter of claim dated 7 January 2020 was served to a previous address which I moved out of in 2018, no effort was made to ascertain my correct address.  I have attached a copy of my tenancy agreement which is marked ‘Appendix 1’ and shows I was residing at a difference address as of 11 December 2018 and was therefore not at the service address at the time the proceedings were served.  I have also attached an email from my solicitors to the Claimants solicitors dated 14 July 2022 which was sent to them requesting that they disclose the trace of evidence they utilised prior to issuing the proceedings against me.  This is marked ‘Appendix 2’.  The claimants solicitors did not provide me with these documents.   4.        Under The Pre-Action Protocol for Debt Claims 2017 a Debt Buyer must undertake all reasonable enquiries to ensure the correct address of a debtor, this can be as simple as a credit file search. The Claimant failed to carry out such basic checks. Subsequently all letters prior to and including ,The Pre action Protocol letter of claim dated 7 January 2020 and the claim form dated 14th February 2020 were all served to a previous address which I moved out of in 2018.   5.        I became aware of original Judgement following a routine credit check on or around 14th September 2020.   6.        Upon the discovery of the Judgement debt, I made immediate contact with the Court and the Claimant Solicitors, putting them on notice that I was making investigations in relation to the Judgement debt as it was not familiar to me.  I asked them to provide me with a copy of the original loan agreement but this was not provided to me.   The correspondence to the Claimant Solicotors is attached and marked ‘Appendix 3’   7.        I then sent a Data Subject Access Request to Barclays but no agreement was provided. Details the timeline of communication between myself and Barclays are attached and marked ‘Appendix 4’and the copies of correspondence between myself and Barclays are attached and marked ‘Appendix 5’.   8.        The claimant relies upon and exhibits a reconstituted version of the alleged agreement.   It is again denied that I have ever entered into an agreement with Barclaycard on or around 2000.  It is admitted that I did hold other credit agreements with other creditors and as such should this be a debt that was assigned to Barclaycard from another brand therefore the reconstituted agreement disclosed is invalid being pre April 2007 and not legally enforceable pursuant to HH Judge Waksman in Carey v HSBC 2009 EWHC3417.  Details of this are attached and marked ‘Appendix 6’.   The original credit agreement must be provided along with any reconstituted version on a modified credit agreement and must contain the names and address of debtor and creditor, agreement number and cancelation clause.   9.        Therefore the claimant is put to strict proof to disclose a true executed legible agreement on which its claim relies upon and not try to mislead the court.   10.   As per CPR 1.4(2)(a) the court encourages parties to cooperate with each other in the conduct of proceedings in order to try and save time and costs for the parties and to also save the time and resources of the court however, despite vast attempts at mediation the claimants have been most unreasonable and have remained unwilling to mediate. Until such time the claimant can comply and disclose a true executed copy of the original assigned agreement they refer to within the particulars of this claim they are not entitled while the default continues, to enforce the agreement pursuant to section 78.6 (a) of the Credit Consumer Act 1974. I believe that the facts stated in this Witness Statement are true.  I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth. Signed                 ………………………………………………….. Name                  XXXX Date                     30 April 2024
    • Only trying to help.  Ain't being nasty.  Some
    • Hi folks, I've just found previous documentation. I thought it had gone missing. I'd forgotten that I did appeal it through POPLA but I can't find the thread on here that, I assume, I posted for help. Appeal letter is dated 27/10/2020 with a rejection. I genuinely had forgotten about this so apologies for misleading you. A lot has happened in the years since the ticket was issued. We closed down a couple of businesses and moved to the opposite end of the country to retire. The documents I have are scanned copies. I no longer have the originals. The NTK is also in there. If there's anything you'd like to see, please let me know and I'll post them, although it probably won't be until tomorrow now, but I'll be looking in on this page tonight. Thank you for the responses so far
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They don't have any direct debit details so can't charge more. Does this mean that the whole 7 days consumer rights thing doesn't count in this situation? I thought that if you haven't used the service or item within 7 days then you can be refunded even if the company policy says different.

Also, my mum has said she will try to call and explain that I don't wish to do it and that he put a mentally disabled person in a situation that caused pressure and resulted in a term called shut down (what I said earlier about not being able to think) and it's one of the reasons I had carers for years and that it's only in the last few years that I've tried going independent. She has also said that she could tell him that a Specialist in my condition can also agree on this and that I shouldn't of agreed to it without my advocate agreeing to it also.

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7 day consumer rights cooling off periods applies to things bought over the phone or on the internet. Not here, I'm afraid

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I have already said above - do everything in writing. If you want, go round there and put your case but go with a letter which explains what you have said.

 

If you think that a doctor will agree to give you a letter saying that you do not have the capacity to make a contract - because you are not really in control enough to make such contracts freely or you don't understand the significance of a contractual obligation, then you are probably in an excellent position to deny the contract and your chances in a legal action would be better than 95%.

 

However you need to work quickly and they need to be in possession of the letter which I described above by Monday. You need to show that you acted with alacrity.

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Nice try - but I'm afraid that the Distance Selling Regs apply to the selling of the goods or services - not to the payment mechanism - so, sorry. No.

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Hi Dogactor87

 

You used Paypal, but how exactly do you use your Paypal account?

 

I signed into my account on his laptop after he set up a payment thing and just pressed accept or whatever the option button to pay was... Pay now.

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How about this?

 

 

1/5/2014

 

Dear Mr Chan

 

I hereby inform you that I am cancelling any contract that you might consider you have with me and that you should consider this letter as formal notice of that cancellation.

 

I require the return the £397 that was transferred to you via PayPal because I consider that your standards fall below those which you would reasonably expect of such an organization and that you are also in breach of your own rules.

 

In particular, you have failed to provide me with a copy of the club’s Code of Conduct and Risk Assessment as required on page one of their risk assessment document and I asked to try the classes first and was told I couldn’t do so, yet your website and the FMA website says you offer a 30 day free trial membership and I wish to know why I was told differently. You said your course is based on honesty and yet I feel lied to due to not being allowed to do this option. If you will refund me and let me do this trial before committing to your course then I feel that would be an acceptable compromise and regain my trust in you and your company.

 

Also, despite the fact that I informed you that I have a form of Autism, you disregarded it and I consider that you took advantage of my condition as a vulnerable adult by pressuring me into paying money on the spot without a proper trial or time to consider it causing me to go into ‘lock down’ which is part of my condition, which means under stress I struggle to process information and understand what is being said to me or asked to sign. A specialist in Autism or my doctor can provide a letter confirming this and that I was not in a fit state to agree to such a contract without an advocate or guardian present.

 

Finally, I believe that the registration documents and insurance documents have not been completed or they have not been properly completed because they were never drawn to my attention or explained to me properly and a copy of them and any contract given to me. Therefore any membership, which you might have agreed to cannot be recognised and therefore the contract has not been properly completed.

 

In any event, I attended your gym on the basis of a free 30 day trial but when I did attend I was surprised to find that I was put under pressure to commit myself to an immediate paid membership without benefit of a trial, apart from a 10 minute session with yourself. Furthermore, it was explained to me that if I tried to take advantage of the free trial, my eventual membership would be £200 more expensive and no equipment provided and this means that the free trial is illusory and is merely a bait to get prospects into the gym.

 

I consider this as unacceptable behavior and that it amounts to an unfair commercial practice under Consumer (Protection from Unfair Trading) Regulations 2009. If I do not have an immediate refund, then I will report you to Trading Standards who have the power to prosecute for breaches of CPUT. I will also be sending this letter to your head office.

 

Yours Sincerely,

 

My name

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My mum went with me to see him tonight and we took the letter but she explained about my Aspergers and that I hadn't understood everything correctly and that I'm not actually allowed to spend amounts that large without consent from her or a carer first. He was very understanding and has agreed to transfer the money back minus the PayPal charges and very happy with that and feel like a great weight has been lifted. Thank you everyone for all the advice and helping me through it. I have learnt my lesson and will in future call my mum or carer before saying yes to anything or even better only go if they are present or say no and that I have to think about it first.

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Hi Dogactor and thanks for the update on your case.

 

I hope this is an end to the matter but please let us know that you have the money safely back in your account.

 

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This is excellent news - well done.

 

And well done to the Family Martial Arts Academy in Chester who have handled this very responsibly and very decently.

 

The majority of these kinds of clubs and gyms are not nearly so easy to deal with and seem prepared to go the final mile to keep any money which they have been given by their clients.

Clearly you have found an exception.

 

Maybe should should go back to them and see if they will explore some other way of giving you some access to the clubs facilities which suit your condition and will not result in such a full committment.

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