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The claim includes statutory interest under S.69 of the County Courts Act 1984 at a rate of 8% per annum from the date of assignment to the date of the issue of these proceedings in the sum of £49.15 The Claimant claims the sum of £972 What is the total value of the claim? £1112 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? I dont know the details of the PAPDC to know if it was pursuant to paragraph 3, but I did receive a Letter of Claim with a questionaire/form to fill. Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? Credit Card When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? no Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? Online Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ? Yes Has the claim been issued by the original creditor or was the account assigned and it is the Debt purchaser who has issued the claim. Assigned/purchaser Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? I was aware, I'm not certain I received a 'Notice of Assignment' from Capital One but may have been informed the account had been sold without such a title on the letter? Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? Yes Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ? Not since the debt purchase, and not from Capital One. Why did you cease payments? I can't remember - it was the tail end of the pandemic and I may not have had enough income to keep up payments - I am self-employed and work in the event industry - at that time. I also had a bank account that didn't allow direct debits and may have just forgotten payments and became annoyed at fines for late payments. What was the date of your last payment? Appears to be 20/4/2022 Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? No Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No Here is my Defence: Defence - 1. The Defendant contends that the particulars of claim are vague and generic in nature. The Defendant accordingly sets out its case below and relies on CPR r 16.5 (3) in relation to any particular allegation to which a specific response has not been made. 2. Paragraph 1 is noted. I have in the past had an agreement with Capital One but do not recognise this specific account number or recollect any outstanding debt and have therefore requested clarification by way of a CPR 31.14 and section 78 request.. 3. Paragraph 2 is denied. I am unaware of having been served with a Default Notice pursuant to the Consumer Credit Act 1974. 4. Paragraph 3 is denied. I am unaware of any legal assignment or Notice of Assignment pursuant to the Law and Property Act 1925 Section 136(1) 5. The Defendant has sent a request by way of a section 78 pursuant to the Consumer Credit Act 1974, for a copy of the agreement, the Claimant has yet to comply and remains in default of said request. 6. A further request has been made via CPR 31.14 to the Claimants solicitor, requesting disclosure of documents on which the Claimant is basing their claim. The Claimant has not complied and to date nothing has been received. 7. It is therefore not accepted with regards to the Defendant owing any monies to the Claimant and the Claimant is put to strict proof to: a) show how the Defendant has entered into an agreement and; b) show how the Claimant has reached the amount claimed for and; c) show the nature of the breach and evidence by way of a Default Notice pursuant to sec 88 CCA1974 d) show how the Claimant has the legal right, either under statute or equity to issue a claim 8. As per Civil Procedure 16.5 it is expected that the claimants prove the allegation that the money is owed 9. On the alternative, as the Claimant is an assignee of a debt, it is denied that the Claimant has the right to lay a claim due to contraventions of section 136 of the Law of Property Act and section 82A of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 10. By reasons of the facts and matters set out above, it is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief. .................. Please note that I had to write a defence quite quickly as I hit the deadline. At the time of writing the defence, I hadn't been able to find correspondence from Capital One, but had since found default letter etc. I submitted CCA request and CPR 31.14. However, I didn't get any proof of postage or use registered post for the CPR (an oversight) but did with the CCA request. I received a pack which included a letter from Overdales, going over the defence I'd filed, as well as letters of Lowells and reprints of letters from Capital One. But I have no idea if this pack is in response to the CCA request or the CPR ! I would have expected two separate responses ... although I do know they are both the same company. Looking over the pack today, and looking through old emails .. I find some discrepancies in the Capital One default letters (notice of default and Claim of default). They are both dated *before* an email I have stating that a default can be avoided. The one single page of agreement sent (so not the full agreement) has a 16 digit number at the top in small print, next to 'Capital One' which corresponds to a number called 'PURN' printed at the top of each of the 10 pages of ins and outs of the account (they're not official statements, but a list of monthly goings) yet no mention anywhere on either of the account number. I cant really scan them at the moment - I can later tomorrow, but that will be after the mediation call I'm sure. I guess I may be on my own for this mediation ... I am not certain the CCA request has been satisfied .. or if the CPR has been . And then I appear to have evidence that the Default notices provided are fabricated ? Yet, I do have (elsewhere ... not at home) Default letters from Capital One I can check ..
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Paula Vennells, an ordained Anglican priest, is facing questions over her role in the Horizon IT scandal.

 

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Heres another thought

She claimed to have taken the PO from loss making to profit didnt she?

According to the Horizon system is that? phuut

With all the money extorted from the SPMs?

 

I'd say its long past time there was a forensic accounting exercise - but that would just be more millions of taxpayer money wasted.

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Doesn't Fujitsu also supply systems to the MOD and HMRC

.. No wonder my tax is so high and too often I've had corrections applied to my cost with no explanation other than - you haven't paid enough

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This is from Liam Byrne, chair of the Business select committee on the evidence given by the heads of POL and Fujitsu.

“You’ve left us fairly shocked actually. You’ve not been able to supply the committee with key events in the timeline, such as when the Post Office first knew that remote access was possible.

“You’ve told us you haven’t kept evidence safe about what money was paid to you inappropriately and therefore is owed back, and you can’t estimate the scale of compensation. We are grateful to the moral commitment to pay compensation, but that leaves us many questions.”

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The former Post Office CEO, who gave up the honour this week following public outcry over the scandal, was nominated for the prestigious award by...

 

"Despite concerns being raised about Ms Vennells’ nomination for the honour, Sir Ian Cheshire, who chaired the committee recommending her for a CBE, “brushed them aside”

"Ms Vennells, who gave up the honour this week following public outcry over the scandal, was nominated by the Department for Business."

"At least one member of the committee questioned plans to award Ms Vennells a CBE amid growing outrage over the scandal, sources told The Sunday Times."

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Well my take away from the latest hearing is Fujitsu knew about the issues, but still helped POL in the prosecutions

- but did tell PO about the issues and considered it the PO's decision what to do about them

So Fujitsu would seem to be guilty of corporate immorality and technical incompetence .. and their staff would seemingly (in my lay opinion) be guilty of expert witness versions of perjury/perverting the course of justice charges

PO (IM lay O) guilty of perjury, perverting the course of justice, extortion, theft, false accounting, fraud, tax evasion,  with at least some seemingly guilty of misconduct and/or malfeasance in public office.

 

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tell you what else caught my eye today

Some minister or other clearly just trying to self-aggrandize saying they wanted to boot Fujitsu out of contracts and refuse new ones, but claimed he couldn't because of procurement rules

Didn't say that to the pub landlords, cake shop owners, coffee cup makers, Mone and PPEMedpro, none existent companies and the other VIPlane VIPals that bypassed proper process with government deals done at taxpayer expense via whatsapp  and personal phone numbers eh?

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The right wing press really does seem to be running with this dont they

- well since they lessened their efforts to pin it on davey and starmer

 

wonder why?

Surely not a concerted effort to trash Sunak by the wrong wing?

Whats the odds of a challenge within the next month? They've got nothing to lose have they?

 

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Oh - and what have the met been doing while sitting on a slam dunk conviction of people who ruined 700+ lives

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.. all at a cost to the taxpayer of probably  little more than the watches that would have been stolen

So, if the SPMs had only owned Rolex's

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I don't know if anyone has been following the inquiry today but some significant evidence being heard from Fujitsu witnesses.

A court of appeal case hearing for a convicted postmaster last year has established that at least 13 missing transactions that were subsequently manually replaced by Fujitsu remotely & covertly didn't show up in the ARQ (audit data) evidence that post office relied upon in prosecuting the sub postmaster. 

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That of itself will lead to the conclusion that Fujitsu were regularly as a matter of course accessing accounts to manually alter data.

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.. while still being part of the evidence process to convict people of stealing the moneys their system misrepresented and they secretly corrected

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That of itself will lead to the conclusion that Fujitsu were regularly as a matter of course accessing accounts to manually alter data.

Well on this occasion it backfired on them even though they were attempting to assist the subpostmaster in correcting his data, but basically those corrections didn't show up on the Fujitsu's own archived data and that's why PO prosecuted him.

It was fortunate that the subpostmaster kept the Horizon printouts that established that the transactions actually existed.

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Well on this occasion it backfired on them even though they were attempting to assist the subpostmaster in correcting his data,

 

but basically those corrections didn't show up on the Fujitsu's own archived data and that's why PO prosecuted him.

It was fortunate that the subpostmaster kept the Horizon printouts that established that the transactions actually existed.

So the error was discovered

.. supposedly corrected by Fujitsu tech - presumably 3/4th line - but those corrections didn't show up on any archived data - and seemingly didnt correct/balance the 'current' accounts

.. as PO still tried to prosecute him

- despite there being horizon printouts - but not balanced/logged transactions

 

any link or copy of the actual detail?

 

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on a side note

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The Wellington High Court has ruled in Corrections' favour in its long-running dispute with technology company Fujitsu.

need to read it all perhaps twice

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any link or copy of the actual detail?

 

for starters

 

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The inaccurate data came to light in August last year in the case concerning the Apex Corner branch in London.

"Explaining the problem in the Apex Corner case in “simple terms”, Mr Barnes said: “There was some technical problem and the messages weren’t copied to the correspondent servers at that time, so they didn’t appear in the normal audit data.”"

 

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Theres an extra point in this - the massive legal costs dumped on the postmasters in addition to the falsely alleged shortfalls

£321,000 in PO claimed legal fees and costs in just one case

 

So 600k really doesnt cut it for many does it

600k compensation, + (return of falsely claimed money + associated legal fees paid by victims + interest) plus legal fees since will be nearer the mark.

 

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Lee Castleton had costs in the region of £300k didn't he, for POL recovering £25k? It's being said that they wanted to make an example of him to discourage other SPMs from fighting.

I just hope they at least start to be paid out on account soon. The compensation committees sound hugely bureaucratic.

I do wonder if they're also considering the impact on people's lives; the homes or relationships or businesses they lost, never mind the mental effects. Fairness IMO says that they should be returned to the position they would have been in if they hadn't been falsely sued.

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I agree HB - 600k plus all costs plus interest really isnt that ..

but it might be a compromise acceptable to the majority of the victims without putting them through the minute examinations reliving the issues which is being required of the compensation claims.

Of course, we also want those who carry the responsibility to pay and pay properly. Claw back of bonuses and pensions before criminal charges even start of ALL the PO execs involved is MORE than justified seems to me.

(Investigators, who may well seem and be heartless scumbags, are just small fry and just a distraction from the real criminals)

When is Vennels formal forfeiture of that utterly undeserved honor being processed - her just 'handing back' her honor is literally nothing. She could start using it again tomorrow .. if she has even stopped.

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