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    • The property was our family home.  A fixed low rate btl/ development loan was given (last century!). It was derelict. Did it up/ was rented out for a while.  Then moved in/out over the years (mostly around school)  It was a mix of rental and family home. The ad-hoc rents covered the loan amply.  Nowadays  banks don't allow such a mix.  (I have written this before.) Problems started when the lease was extended and needed to re-mortgage to cover the expense.  Wanted another btl.  Got a tenant in situ. Was located elsewhere (work). A broker found a btl lender, they reneged.  Broker didn't find another btl loan.  The tenant was paying enough to cover the proposed annual btl mortgage in 4 months. The broker gave up trying to find another.  I ended up on a bridge and this disastrous path.  (I have raised previous issues about the broker) Not sure what you mean by 'split'.  The property was always leasehold with a separate freeholder  The freeholder eventually sold the fh to another entity by private agreement (the trust) but it's always been separate.  That's quite normal.  One can't merge titles - unless lease runs out/ is forfeited and new one is not created/ granted. The bridge lender had a special condition in loan offer - their own lawyer had to check title first.  Check that lease wasn't onerous and there was nothing that would affect good saleability.  The lawyer (that got sacked for dishonesty) signed off the loan on the basis the lease and title was good and clean.  The same law firm then tried to complain the lease clauses were onerous and the lease too short, even though the loan was to cover a 90y lease extension!! 
    • Northmonk forget what I said about your Notice to Hirer being the best I have seen . Though it  still may be  it is not good enough to comply with PoFA. Before looking at the NTH, we can look at the original Notice to Keeper. That is not compliant. First the period of parking as sated on their PCN is not actually the period of parking but a misstatement  since it is only the arrival and departure times of your vehicle. The parking period  is exactly that -ie the time youwere actually parked in a parking spot.  If you have to drive around to find a place to park the act of driving means that you couldn't have been parked at the same time. Likewise when you left the parking place and drove to the exit that could not be describes as parking either. So the first fail is  failing to specify the parking period. Section9 [2][a] In S9[2][f] the Act states  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; Your PCN fails to mention the words in parentheses despite Section 9 [2]starting by saying "The notice must—..." As the Notice to Keeper fails to comply with the Act,  it follows that the Notice to Hirer cannot be pursued as they couldn't get the NTH compliant. Even if the the NTH was adjudged  as not  being affected by the non compliance of the NTK, the Notice to Hirer is itself not compliant with the Act. Once again the PCN fails to get the parking period correct. That alone is enough to have the claim dismissed as the PCN fails to comply with PoFA. Second S14 [5] states " (5)The notice to Hirer must— (a)inform the hirer that by virtue of this paragraph any unpaid parking charges (being parking charges specified in the notice to keeper) may be recovered from the hirer; ON their NTH , NPE claim "The driver of the above vehicle is liable ........" when the driver is not liable at all, only the hirer is liable. The driver and the hirer may be different people, but with a NTH, only the hirer is liable so to demand the driver pay the charge  fails to comply with PoFA and so the NPE claim must fail. I seem to remember that you have confirmed you received a copy of the original PCN sent to  the Hire company plus copies of the contract you have with the Hire company and the agreement that you are responsible for breaches of the Law etc. If not then you can add those fails too.
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    • I understand what you mean. But consider that part of the problem, and the frustration of those trying to help, is the way that questions are asked without context and without straight facts. A lot of effort was wasted discussing as a consumer issue before it was mentioned that the property was BTL. I don't think we have your history with this property. Were you the freehold owner prior to this split? Did you buy the leasehold of one half? From a family member? How was that funded (earlier loan?). How long ago was it split? Have either of the leasehold halves changed hands since? I'm wondering if the split and the leashold/freehold arrangements were set up in a way that was OK when everyone was everyone was connected. But a way that makes the leasehold virtually unsaleable to an unrelated party.
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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Yes to mediation

 

Yes to Small Claims Track

 

Name you local county court

 

1 witness.... yourself.

 

The rest is self explanatory tick boxes...run 3 copies ...court /claimants sol/file.

 

Use the following and complete on screen..looks far more professional.

 

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Only existing/concluded threads on the same type of debt/claimant.

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Had the call to arrange mediation today.

It came at a bad moment, so they're calling back later.

 

Are they able to dictate that my partner must take a day off for the call?

He has one weekday off every week.

 

Is it reasonable to ask that the call be scheduled on one of those days?

 

It seemed not from the initial call...

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Did you not put those dates on the form?

Have Lowell coughed with paperwork yet?

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NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

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If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I put dates we are away and not available for court appearances.

I didn't put every working day down, I thought the person arranging mediation would take both parties' availability into account.

If that's not the case, then fair enough...

 

Lowell replied to the CPR 31.14. They included:

 

notice of acting (not on headed paper)

letter of claim (same)

credit agreement (unsigned)

standard european credit information

 

a computer screen print out which they say is the default notice

(I uploaded a copy of this before, and you said it did not qualify as a proper default notice) letter (also not on headed paper) from shop direct introducing lowell

summary of transactions from shop direct

 

This is the 'default notice' (mentioned above and uploaded previously).

How sure can I be that this will not be accepted by the court as proper documentation?

 

It seems odd that they are willing to reproduce all other documents by simply printing out template letters not even on to headed paper but that they cannot / will not produce the default notice they claim they sent.

It was genuinely never received.

 

My partner was living at a different address by this point but had a redirection set up with Royal Mail and was receiving all other post.

 

Sorry for all the questions today...

 

I've read through all the paperwork again this afternoon.

In my CPR 31.14 I asked for a copy of the demand / termination notice.

In their response, no reference was made to this part of my request.

 

Nothing that says demand or termination on it was sent.

Is this a separate document to the default notice that I requested at an earlier stage, the reply to which I've uploaded in the post above?

 

If so, I've received nothing that corresponds to that part of my request.

Or are the default / demand / termination notice one and the same thing?

 

I'm just trying to clarify what I have & have not received, as I assume at some point this will be asked about?

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Dn is the tn

Lowell have lost numerous claim by not having a dn

 

The rest you have gotten is made up rubbish

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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So is the person calling back today likely to ask what has / has not been received?

 

I've read a few other threads and it seems its been advised before to say that not everything has yet been received - this would be accurate in our case.

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you say..I have not received all the required documentation to make an informed decision

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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The last time I posted my partner had just received a call to arrange mediation.

It wasn't a good time (he was on a bus with our toddler daughter)

they said they'd call back that day at 4pm.

They never did.

 

A few days later he called them himself.

said that they had not been able to arrange mediation but could not seem to find a record of why.

said the case had been passed on for a court date.

 

As we have still not received most of the paperwork we've requested, mediation would have failed anyway, so I hope this was not a terrible problem.

 

It's now been nearly a month, and we've heard nothing further.

Should I be worried?

Or doing something?

 

What are the typical timescales involved here?

We now have another baby only a few weeks old and I'm conscious of how easy it would be to overlook something important...

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some courts have a long back log to allocation we've been seeing.

 

what does MCOL say?

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NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

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are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Have been trying to log in to MCOL to check. Is there a more user-unfriendly website in the land??

 

I need a username and password. I have the password printed on the claim form I was sent back in April. I have a 12 digit 'gateway number' (handwritten on the claim form by me) and a MCOL 'customer number' (also handwritten), which begins MC...

 

Which combination of these do I need to log in?? I've tried so many and none is working. Or what else could I be doing wrong? Sorry for the extremely dumb questions today, I am normally more than capable of logging in using username and password, I promise.

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Ring Northampton and ask what the status of the claim is ? If you have not received a Notice of Allocation from your local county court...inform them.

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Yes it allocates the claim to your local County Court (N157 form )

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Good morning,

 

We've been sent a date for our court hearing, 29th October.

 

I've read on some similar threads that we need a witness statement for this. Is this something I submit somewhere in advance? Is there a deadline? I didn't see it mentioned in the correspondence that arrived. Sorry for the ignorance.

 

There was also an offer from Lowell to settle for a reduced figure at £20 per month. Having come this far, and as they are still unable to produce the proper documentation, we are going to continue with the process but if they are successful in receiving their judgement, what happens then? Obviously we simply do not have the £3k or whatever it is to pay within 14 days. They cannot take what does not exist, so what would happen then? Would a repayment plan still be possible? I know I am getting ahead of myself here...

 

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If you have the trial date ...you have the Notice of Allocation (n157) which also contains the directions (witness statement and disclosure and dates you must comply by).

 

If they get judgment ...the court will either set it as a monthly payment or a forthwith payment...if the latter you can make application to vary it to a monthly payment.

 

 

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Hi Andy,

 

You're right of course. I had put this to one side awaiting further correspondence with the date..

 

If I've understood it correctly, I need to submit the defence at least 14 days prior to the hearing date, which is Monday 29th, so Monday 15th. Allowing for postage time, do you think it would be ok to send no later than Friday 12th recorded?

 

I know there's no template for this stage. Are there any threads you could recommend I look at?

 

Many thanks

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