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We are asking people to make donations in order to help us collect the cost of the transcript of the hearing and judgement in a recent successful case against Npower.

 

You can read the Npower thread here: – http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?436401-nPower-Mismanaged-account-County-Court-claim-issued-aganst-Npower

 

The case which was heard last week is the culmination of a long 2 to 3 year battle against harassment and mismanagement and incompetence by Npower and their legal department.

 

Although the case did not produce the damages which were asked for, the judge did hold that Npower had contractual duties towards their customer and that they were in breach of their duty.

This amounts to a very significant victory because Npower denied that they owed any duties at all to their customer - whether in the quality of their account management, their complaints handling or even in respect of a duty to provide accurate bills. (Frankly, you could scarcely make it up!!)

 

Even during the case, the Npower lawyer tried to divert the discussion away from the issue of liability altogether.

 

Furthermore, the judge criticised Npower and made it clear that he thought that the customer had had a very difficult time and was entirely justified in bringing the claim.

 

The claim had been made unnecessarily complicated by the poor and unprofessional bullying approach of the Npower litigation department. This fact was not lost on the judge who went on to criticise Npower in scathing terms about the style of their litigation.

 

We will be doing a full write-up of the case and also of the unprofessional approach which Eversir has had to endure for a considerable amount of time, just as soon as we receive the transcript. We will be publishing much of the transcript on this forum for other Npower victims to read.

 

We have just made the application for the transcript but it is likely to cost in the region of £800-£1000.

 

We need help to pay for this and so we invite anybody to make a donation to us.

 

If we are lucky enough to receive more than the cost of the transcript, then anything extra will simply be used as part of our resources to pay our bills and expenses and to keep on going to provide our help for free.

 

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No - I don't expect so - not at County Court level anyway.

To get such a thing done would take ages - even if it was successful.

The best thing to do is to go through normal channels, pay for it and get it as soon as possible.

We haven't had much of a response to our appeal so far. It#s a bit disappointing.

 

On a related point, I find that we have now been shut out of two Npower Facebook groups. Npower Nightmare https://www.facebook.com/groups/517771428350844/ have banned us completely - I think because we criticised the suggestion by them that it was necessary to use a claims firm and to pay a barrister £600 for advice.

 

Nasty Npower seems to have put us on moderation so that posts have to be approved - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1401825313433928/ and this means that my message informing people about this new victory has not been published and nor has our appeal for help.

 

I have no idea what the admins of these groups think they are up to and how their action help the Npower victims who come to them. The only people who get comfort from this are Npower.

 

If anyone has access to these two groups, maybe you could tell their members that we have a victory against Npower and that they should come here to read about it. (Mind you, you might get banned!! - not very Charlie Hebdo, is it?)

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Yes thank you.

 

Apparently the administrator was busy

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I'm not sure if this idea is permissible. Crowdfunding?

 

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In certain circumstances a court transcript can be obtained free of charge… I was able to get one as I was a LIP and deaf...

That is useful info, thanks. Not for this case unfortunately, but it may be useful to someone in the future

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Update one this:-

Thank you to everyone who has donated so far.

 

We have collected about £400 so we still need another £400 or so.

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It has to be done by a transcription service who are authorised to receive the tape from the court and to transcribe it. Much of the transcription has then to be returned to the court for approval by the judge before it can be released to us.

We have made the application. The tape has yet to be sent to the transcribers. When they get it, they will give us a quote for the work which on my calculation will be between £800 and £1000 plus VAT. There is about 3.5 hours of transcription to be done. We are not VAT registered.

If we collect more than we need then the extra will be used for our own expenses.

 

Just another spin-off of the hassle and problems caused by Npower and their legal assistant Kenneth Radley Davies Madley Smadley Hadley Sadley Mavies - lost in court and criticised by the judge for their treatment of their customer and the handling of their litigation.

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Radley, Madely, Hadley and Mavies? Is that a wind up? lol

 

No, it is he.

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I am very pleased to learn that I have seriously over-estimated the cost of this transcript.

For the slowest 15 day turn-around, the estimate is £510.

 

We are still about £100 short on our transcript fund appeal - so if anyone is feeling generous .... donate!!

 

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The invoice for the transcript has now been paid and we should have it in the next few weeks.

 

Thank you for everybody who contributed to this fund. Your support has been greatly appreciated.

 

I should say that in fact the fund is still a bit short of the target, and we have made the rest up. If anybody wanted to make a few more donations to bring up the shortfall, it would be very gratefully received.

 

We have our server bills coming up in the next couple months as well!!

 

Once we have received the transcript – which has to be approved by the court first – and we have gone through it, we will post up most of it – and certainly any highlights, for everyone to see. This is likely to happen sometime towards the end of September.

 

In the meantime, anyone else who has trouble with Npower, should take courage. They really aren't very difficult. They are simply obstructive and obtuse – assisted by a very poor professional legal attitude from the legal department.

 

However, if you have an issue with Npower, we suggest that you don't hold back. Attack them directly. There is nothing to be frightened of and at the end, the exercise can be very interesting and it is a great sense of satisfaction to realise that you have stood up for yourself against these and other bullies.

 

The more people who attack Npower and other similar soulless institutions, the better it will be for everyone.

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We have now received enough donations to pay for the transcript.

 

Thank you everyone who donated.

 

For those who didn't get round to it - and who have a bit of money to spare - we have a hefty server bill coming up in a couple of months - so we are still happy to receive donations.

 

Thank you to everyone.

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Yes, excellent news :)

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YEY!!!!!!!! Im glad I did my bit for it :) Im happy you managed to get the money for it!

 

I owe you all massively for getting me out of a bad situation soooo many times.

 

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