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    • the claimant in their WS can refer to whatever previous CC judgements they like, as we do in our WS's, but CC judgements do not set a legal precedence. however, they do often refer to judgements like Bevis, those cases do created a precedence as they were court of appeal rulings. as for if the defendant, prior to the raising of a claim, dobbed themselves in as the driver in writing during any appeal to the PPC, i don't think we've seen one case whereby the claimant referred to such in their WS.. ?? but they certainly typically include said appeal letters in their exhibits. i certainly dont think it's a good idea to 'remind' them of such at the defence stage, even if the defendant did admit such in a written appeal. i would further go as far to say, that could be even more damaging to the whole case than a judge admonishing a defendant for not appealing to the PPC in the 1st place. it sort of blows the defendant out the water before the judge reads anything else. dx  
    • Hi LFI, Your knowledge in this area is greater than I could possibly hope to have and as such I appreciate your feedback. I'm not sure that I agree the reason why a barrister would say that, only to get new customers, I'm sure he must have had professional experience in this area that qualifies him to make that point. 🙂 In your point 1 you mention: 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver. I understand the point you are making but I was referring to when the keeper is also the driver and admits it later and only in this circumstance, but I understand what you are saying. I take on board the issues you raise in point 2. Is it possible that a PPC (claimant) could refer back to the case above as proof that the motorist should have appealed, like they refer back to other cases? Thanks once again for the feedback.
    • Well barristers would say that in the hope that motorists would go to them for advice -obviously paid advice.  The problem with appealing is at least twofold. 1] there is a real danger that some part of the appeal will point out that the person appealing [the keeper ] is also the driver.  And in a lot of cases the last thing the keeper wants when they are also the driver is that the parking company knows that. It makes it so much easier for them as the majority  of Judges do not accept that the keeper and the driver are the same person for obvious reasons. Often they are not the same person especially when it is a family car where the husband, wife and children are all insured to drive the same car. On top of that  just about every person who has a valid insurance policy is able to drive another person's vehicle. So there are many possibilities and it should be up to the parking company to prove it to some extent.  Most parking company's do not accept appeals under virtually any circumstances. But insist that you carry on and appeal to their so called impartial jury who are often anything but impartial. By turning down that second appeal, many motorists pay up because they don't know enough about PoFA to argue with those decisions which brings us to the second problem. 2] the major parking companies are mostly unscrupulous, lying cheating scrotes. So when you appeal and your reasons look as if they would have merit in Court, they then go about  concocting a Witness Statement to debunk that challenge. We feel that by leaving what we think are the strongest arguments to our Member's Witness Statements, it leaves insufficient time to be thwarted with their lies etc. And when the motorists defence is good enough to win, it should win regardless of when it is first produced.   
    • S13 (2)The creditor may not exercise the right under paragraph 4 to recover from the keeper any unpaid parking charges specified in the notice to keeper if, within the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which that notice was given, the creditor is given— (a)a statement signed by or on behalf of the vehicle-hire firm to the effect that at the material time the vehicle was hired to a named person under a hire agreement; (b)a copy of the hire agreement; and (c)a copy of a statement of liability signed by the hirer under that hire agreement. As  Arval has complied with the above they cannot be pursued by EC----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- S14 [1]   the creditor may recover those charges (so far as they remain unpaid) from the hirer. (2)The conditions are that— (a)the creditor has within the relevant period given the hirer a notice in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) (a “notice to hirer”), together with a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph 13(2) and the notice to keeper; (b)a period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the notice to hirer was given has elapsed;  As ECP did not send copies of the documents to your company and they have given 28 days instead of 21 days they have failed to comply with  the Act so you and your Company are absolved from paying. That is not to say that they won't continue asking to be paid as they do not have the faintest idea how PoFA works. 
    • Euro have got a lot wrong and have failed to comply with the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 Schedule 4.  According to Section 13 after ECP have written to Arval they should then send a NTH to the Hirer  which they have done.This eliminates Arval from any further pursuit by ECP. When they wrote to your company they should have sent copies of everything that they asked Arval for. This is to prove that your company agree what happened on the day of the breach. If ECP then comply with the Act they are allowed to pursue the hirer. If they fail, to comply they cannot make the hirer pay. They can pursue until they are blue in the face but the Hirer is not lawfully required to pay them and if it went to Court ECP would lose. Your company could say who was driving but the only person that can be pursued is the Hirer, there does not appear to be an extension for a driver to be pursued. Even if there was, because ECP have failed miserably to comply with the Act  they still have no chance of winning in Court. Here are the relevant Hire sections from the Act below.
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1st tip is do NOT enter into any little chats their rep wants before you go in

smile and walk away.

 

ensure the writer of the WS in in court to be X examined in person by you.., if not question this with the judge  and politely point out rights of audience i think it is... the WS cannot thus be relied upon at all inc its exhibits.and is all but inadmissible.

 

other than that, only speak when spoken to by the judge, but don't sit there listening to a tissue of lies or fake statements, if you need too speak up.

 

 

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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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It isn't formal like Perry Mason. From what I understand it will be you, the judge and someone representing Simple Simon in a room around a table. [I haven't been to court myself, hopefully someone can add to what I've said.]

 

Do you have your papers organised in a file so you can find things easily when you want to refer to it?

 

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You wont get to cross examine anyone..the judge conducts the hearing...he speaks to you he speaks to the claimants representative... which can be in a normal court room or his chambers subject to how busy the court is.

 

If you wish to question validity of the statement and the drafts person not being in attendance....then simply refer to the following.

 

The claimants witness statement confirms that it mostly relies on hearsay evidence as confirmed by the drafts person in the opening paragraph. It is my understanding that they must serve notice to any hearsay evidence pursuant to CPR 33.2(1)(B) (notice of intention to rely on hearsay evidence) and Section 2 (1) (A) of the Civil Evidence Act given that they are not in attendance.

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Perry Mason, Honeybee? My  grandmother used to tell me about him.😀

 

Honeybee is right-it is very informal-no wigs and no hangman's cap.

You refer to the Judge as Sir or Madam and they will be in suits as you should be too, plus wearing a tie.

Do not interrupt the Judge and always be polite to the Judge.

 

If Yasmeen does not appear suggest to the Judge that it would be unfair that their brief is allowed to cross examine you since you have been denied the chance to cross examine her and there were many things that required examination in her WS.

 

Try not to gloat at the end.

Good luck.

 

Do not forget to claim your expenses-time off work, travel, parking and £19 per hour  legal work.

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Thanks a lot guys. One more question please:

 

How should I argue this rubbish point from VCS WS?


S38: It is argued that the Byelaws are therefore arbitrary. It is not mandatory that the Byelaws are utilised so long as the relationship is established between the two parties.
 

Byelaws is attached for reference. Thanks a lot!

 

Southend-on-Sea Municipal Airport Byelaws 1983.pdf

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Total eyewash.

Schedule 4 of POFA at section 2 and 3 describes the relevant land and relevant contract where POFA applies. The airport is operated under statutory control.

The Byelaws are quite clear that their rules are the relevant ones.

 

B   Acts for which Permission is Required 

51] No person shall, without the permission of the Airport Director, post, distribute or display signs etc etc

Under "Interpretation" the Airport Authority is Southend Council [this is the second tranche of Byelaws from the Council appearing under the first set of regs] as there are two sets of Interpretation listed.

 

Where Byelaws exist, any fines arising from breaches of the Byelaws go to the Exchequer rather than the airport or the parking company. So to get round this, the crooks are brought in to get round the money going to the Government.

 

Somewhere on the airport a company allows the crooks to set up their system that rakes in a lot more money than the Byelaws can and they do some sort of profit sharing arrangement together. Effectively they are cheating the Exchequer out of money that should have gone to them had any Byelaw been broken.

 

There should be a contract between the crooks and Southend Council.

 

Don't hold your breath looking for that contract.

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The case is adjourned as the guy from VCS claimed that they had not received my WS, which I did through post and email. The judge ask me to present my evidence in 7 days. Gutted for VCS's lies.
 

 

It was a mess.

 

I was notified it would be done by phone.

In the last minute the court emailed to join team meeting through video.

The judge who also claimed he had not read my WS either although he admitted the court received it, seriously?

 

The case had been reassigned to a different judge today.

I didn't object it although I had waved my post certificate through my camera. 

What should I do now?

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Nothing .....wait for a new date...or you could email them a further copy.....show the court how amicable you are.

 

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what letter?

 

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

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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simply do that then and resend it too by email did he say?
 

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

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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I asked email from the Claimant.

The guy was a solicitor and claimed he did not have any.

The judge did not have it either.

I'll just send y proof and get them in court there for their unreasonable behaviour. They obviously were lying.

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Well you have had it plenty of times and been told to block it...but anyway here it is.

 

PLEASE NOTE: If you have recently received a County Court Summons OR a County Court Judgement (CCJ) relating to Vehicle Control Services Ltd, DO NOT use this contact form to get in touch as it will not be answered, instead email directly to:

 

[email protected]

 

https://vehiclecontrolservices.co.uk/contact/

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I'll be sending my draft order, request to strike out the case, updated cost calculation, along with my proof of sending my WS to VCS.

Anything else I should mention in the letter / email to my local court?

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I'll be sending my draft order, request to strike out the case, 


On what grounds ?

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What abuse ? just because they state they have not received your statement and evidence...which may be possible if its gone to the wrong department... and the judge has adjourned to allow you to prove and rectify this allegedly mishap...is not really grounds of abuse on their part....it can and does happen.and unless you convince the court ,which Im sure you can....they could possibly go for a strike out of your defence because you " allegedly " failed to serve your statement and evidence on them by date and therefore didnt fully comply with the court directions.

 

The fee to make application for strike out is £100 without a hearing...and £250 with...which Im sure would require a hearing for that type of application....and the chances of your application being successful would be nil and dismissed by the court.

 

Do as the judge as directed.....bide your time..forget any application with draft orders for something that wont happen.

 

Andy 

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Fancy doing all that work and then not sending to the court and claimant registered delivery ?

 

cost a fiver but you can print off the date and signature of the person who signed for it at their end.

 

i was advised against email before the hearing as it gave them a chance to prepare a response to my points.

 

good luck but as Andy says you have to work with what you have, which is of course to comply as directed and to appear to be helpful in this regard not kicking back against the process or you are on shaky ground 🤐

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Well thats all you need as evidence it was sent...just steer clear of any mad ideas of making application to strike out.....and Im sure you will be fine.

 

 

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What fun it is!


The case was heard today via MS Teams.

The representative of VCS kept his lie, saying he still hadn't received my WS even though he acknowledged having received my "certificate of posting" and the screenshot of the original email.

 

I asked the judge to dismiss the case due to the unreasonable behaviour - that was denied.

The judge ordered me to email my WS to the representative on site (which I complied with) and gave the agent 20 minutes to read.

 

The representative read my WS and sent the judge and me two more pieces of evidence (which would be attached).

The judge gave me 15 minutes to read.

 

I read the evidence and stated that I would need more time (for a few hours at least) to do some research on the evidence as a layman of the law. I also mentioned the case is not about the money but the principle as the money was not worth the time I spent on it at all.

 

Finally, the judge criticised the claimant's unreasonable behaviour but refused to dismiss the case.

The judge re-adjourned the case for a later date.

Gutted!

 

Britannia Parking v Semark-Jullien final jmt.pdf VCS v Ward.pdf

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Wonder if the judge is after hanging Simple out to dry?

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The bailiff: A 12th Century solution re-branded as Enforcement Agents for the 21st Century to seize and sell debtors goods as before Oh so Dickensian!

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