OPS 2*PCN Claimform - Chichester College, West Sussex ***Claim Discontinued***

[FTMDave]

CPR should dig up the PCNs.  If the fleecers' solicitor can't be bothered to reply, then a SAR can be a Plan B.

 

Make your defence as short and generic as possible.  We have a case at the moment where the motorist put in an extremely-detailed defence - and gave the PPC's solicitors the chance to counter every point.  Keep them guessing!

[FTMDave]

Have a look at post 64 of BStealth's thread.  That's the type of generic defence to file.

 

The rubbish from DCB Legal is just standard.  They don't have to reply to your request, but when it comes to it the judge will want to see the documents.

 

As you haven't got the original paperwork you might as well send OPS a SAR.  It's free, it'll annoy them and it'll force them to do some work.  Always better to have too much info,. than too little. 

 

 

[FTMDave]

Right!

 

Don't counterclaim.

[FTMDave]

Things seem to have moved on massively since April.  Of course we will answer your questions.

 

But first - have you filed your Witness Statement too?

[FTMDave]

dx has explained why you - or the court - have messed up so I won't repeat.  The important thing is to get a WS prepared today, and e-mail it this evening to the court and to the fleecers.  Even if the fault if yours you are a Litigant in Person and the court will allow you some leeway.

 

Have a look at the attachment in post 91 here  https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/431422-vcselms-spy-car-2pcn-paploc-now-claimform-for-1-of-them-no-stopping-bp-station-east-midlands-airport/page/4/#comments

 

This case is very different from yours but you can lift the part from paragraph 18 to the end nigh-on verbatim as it deals with the Unicorn Food Tax that the fleecers always add to their court claims.  Just make sure you get the amount of the Unicorn Food Tax right: I think it is £80 in your case, right?

 

While reading post 39 you're right, most of it is cut & paste bilge.  However -

 

(23 i)  They say they have complied with POFA.  Did they send the PCN out within the POFA timeframe?

(23 v)  They admit you had a permit (good )  Did it really have a 3-hour limit?  

(25)  The idiots admit the charge should be a maximum of £100 ... then spend the rest of the time justifying the Unicorn Food Tax!  Before using verbatim the part from the link above insert a paragraph referring to their point 25 that they admit the maximum amount should be £100.

[FTMDave]

So the mess-up is the court's fault, not yours.  When you e-mail your WS this evening point out that although the judge made their ruling on 4 June, the N157 was dated 21 June, the envelope was franked 22 June and you received it 23 June, making it impossible for you to respect the 14-day deadline for submitting your WS.  This means you'll be fine.

[FTMDave]

If you e-mail your WS do it very late tonight or tomorrow morning as a Cagger called lookinforinfo generally pops in late in the evening and is extremely knowledgable about WSs and how to rubbish the fleecers' claims.

 

Some first thoughts.

 

(19)  (20)  (23 i)  They make great play that they followed POFA.  At the start of their contract with the college they state they will follow POFA.  As this was a windscreen ticket, the PCNs should have arrived 29-56 days after the incidents.  Unfortunately they seem to have respected this for once.

 

(29)  As well as the points upthread, ridicule this and point out that OPS are serial litigants who sue hundreds of people a year and are indeed experienced with cases at appeal level (quote case F0HM9E9Zb at Lewes county court which they famously appealed).

 

Their own photos show a tiny number of signs in font an electron microscope would have problems reading, so attack them on this.

[FTMDave]

Any info. from the court re the WS deadline?

[FTMDave]

You can simply e-mail your local court.

[FTMDave]

Great news!

 

Well done on your victory! 

 

In the end OPS wet themselves.  They must be gnashing their teeth at having to give in over two invoices.

 

All you have to do is remember to ring the court in a couple of days to make sure they really have discontinued.  It's unlikely they're lying, but you never know ...