Backdoor VCS PCN - Berkeley Centre Shefffield.

[ericsbrother]

dont agree that you will have a hard time getting a set aside, you get it almost automatically as long as you have some sort of defence to the original claim and that defence doesnt have to be bullet proof, just not hopeless or frivolous.

 

So you have read up on VCS at this site and you need to get piccies of the sigange there, either your own or some lifted from another source that are contemporary to the time of the claim.

 

Now also read up on Simon renshaw-Smith and Excel parking and look at the signs carefully and see who you would have entered a contract with at the time.

 

So get your evidence sorted so you have something to show at the set-aside that you have a good prospect of success and the set aside will be yours and possibly a warning as to costs to VCS.

 

Now this arises because you will have to pay  for the hearing and if you get the set aside and successfully defend their claim you get that money back plus your other costs for the rematch.

 

That the parking co's often do is agree to a rematch as long as they are not liable for your costs

 

many people go with that just to clear their credit files not realising  that they have an almost cast iron winning case if they only held their nerve a little longer

 

so my advice is to not ask them but file the paperwork first and then let them know you will be after them and see if they volunteer to the court that they will drop the matter altogether if you dont ask for costs.

 

the argument about them not trying hard enough to find you is a specious one as it didnt apply at the time of the incident

 

but you may be in luck as the rules on litigation addresses changed about that time so they may have been obliged to ensure they had the right address.

 

I can understand you not getting the DVLA bit right but why didnt you get your post forwarded by RM for 6 months after moving?

 

I know hindsight is a marvellous thing but anyone else reading this thread should sit up and take notice, it saves an awful lot of bother as parking co's used to do this sort of thing on purpose