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    • Thank you. You contacted directly with the parcel broker so your best option is to proceed directly against them for breach of contract. I hope you have read enough to understand that you will not be able to rely on the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Do you understand why? Have Parcel to Go giving you a reason for declining reimbursement? Do you have anything in writing from your customer which shows that they did not refuse delivery and which identifies the actual circumstances of the situation?
    • Which Court have you received the claim from?  CIVIL NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTRE, NORTHAMPTON Name of the Claimant?  LOWELL PORTFOLIO LTD How many defendant's joint or self?  SELF Date of issue – top right hand corner of the claim form – this in order to establish the time line you need to adhere to.  03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  THE CLAIM IS FOR THE SUM OF £6000 DUE TO THE DEFENDANT UNDER AN AGREEMENT REGULATED BY THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 FOR A LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC ACCOUNT WITH AN ACCOUNT REFERENCE OF (ACCOUNT NO. 16 DIGITS LONG). THE DEFENDANT FAILED TO MAINTAIN CONTRACTUAL PAYMENTS REQUIRED BY THE AGREEMENT AND A DEFAULT NOTICE WAS SERVED UNDER S.87(1) OF THE CONSUMER ACT 1974 WHICH HAS NOT BEEN COMPLIED WITH. THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. THE CLAIM INCLUDES STATUORY INTEREST UNDER S.69 OF THE COUNTY COURTS ACT 1984 AT A RATE OF 8% PER ANNUM FOR THE DATE PF ASSIGNMENT TO THE DATE OF ISSUE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS IN THE SUMBE OF £0.00. THE CLAIMANT CLAIMS THE SUM OF £6000. What is the total value of the claim? £6500 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? YES, NOTICES OF CLAIM.  Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred?  YES  Did you inform the claimant of your change of address?  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?  BEFORE   Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post?  I DONT RECALL   Is the debt showing on your credit reference files (Experian/Equifax /Etc...) ?  NO   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.  DEBT PURCHASER.   Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? THE FIRST I RECALL WAS A LETTER FROM LOWELL SAYING THEY NOW OWNED THE DEBT.  Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor?  NOT THAT I RECALL OR BEEN PROVIDED WITH THROUGH CCA REQUESTS.AT LAST REQUEST THEY SAID THEY WERE AWAITING THE DEFAULT NOTICE AND NO ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN UNTIL RESPONDED WHICH TO DATE I'VE NOT HAD OR SEEN.  Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ?  NO, I RECEIEVED LETTERS OF CLAIMS   Why did you cease payments?  I WAS UNDER MEDICAL CARE WHICH CAUSED ME NOT TO WORK. AROUND THAT TIME LOWELL HAD WANTED ME TO INCREASE MY PAYMENTS AS IT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO CLEAR THE DEBT. I HAD BEEN PAYING THEM WHAT I WAS PAYING THE BANK. I EXPLAINED MY THEN HEALTH & FINANCIAL POSITION AND THAT I WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THEY PUT A HOLD ON MY ACCOUNT FOR A FEW MONTHS SO I CANCELLED MY DIRECT DEBIT. I MADE A FULL AND FINAL OFFER WHICH WAS REJECTED. WHEN THEY WANTED PAYMENTS TO RESUME I EXPLAINED I WAS IN A WORSE FINANCIAL POSITION, STILL UNDERTAKING TREATMENT AND NOW UNEMPLOYED SO COULD NOT START PAYMENTS AS THEY WANTED. AFTER SENDING MY FINANCIAL SPREADSHEET THEY KEPT SENDING LETTERS ASKING WHAT I WAS GOING TO DO. I COULDN’T SEE A WAY FORWARD I FELT STREESSED AND UNDER PRESSURE SO WROTE THAT I WOULD NOT BE CORRESPONDING WITH THEM ANYMORE.    What was the date of your last payment? NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018   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? I COMMUNICATED MY FINANCIAL PROBLEMS WITH THE CREDIT CARD COMPANY, WE MADE A MONTHLY PAYMENT AGREEMENT WHICH WAS KEPT FOR SEVERAL YEARS UNTIL DEBT WAS SOLD.  
    • Perhaps you would care to read this and reflect on your continuing comparison of Israel to Nazi Germany Jugg    ALEX BRUMMER: How grotesque of pro-Palestine protesters to besmirch Auschwitz, the place where my grandparents died WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK As the son of a refugee from the horrors of the Holocaust, I can feel nothing but contempt for the ignorance, gross... My elderly aunt Sussie and cousin Sheindy had been teenagers at Auschwitz and Belsen but survived and are alive to this day. What they will make of the protesters who waved flags, heckled and chanted as Israelis took part in the March Of The Living – the annual walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau – I cannot imagine. The images now circulating of the protesters are indescribably disturbing. They can only bring back memories of those final moments Sheindy shared with my grandparents when my grandmother Fanya squeezed her hand and told her to lie about her age to avoid the gas chambers. Claiming she was older, and could work, meant that Sheindy lived, not died. The outrage perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 has brought back the most terrifying memories for these two women – memories of pillage, mutilation and starvation. The Holocaust, or Shoah to use the Hebrew word, was the deliberate, industrial-scale killing of Jews.  It is bad enough that pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas sympathisers have chosen to steal the language of the Holocaust.  Any comparison between Israel's retaliation and the monstrous genocide of the 1940s is odious and anti-Semitic
    • Thank you JK2054 and BankFodder for your replies. The information requested is as follows:   My wife and I are sole traders supplying bespoke, handmade wedding trays and other items through our website. We do not sell on ebay. We had an order for two trays (invoice value £370) that were shipped on Monday 25th March. We used P2G as the broker and Evri as the shipper. We declared the value but did not take out insurance. As the trays were a present for a wedding on Saturday 30th March we checked the progress of delivery on the Thursday to see that there had been an attempt to deliver on the 27th but the driver failed to deliver as the customer’s gate was shut (customer informs us that the gates are open between 7am-7pm. We contacted the customer who informed us she had been waiting in all week and there had been no attempt of a delivery. Evri allege they attempted to deliver on the 28th & 29th. On the P2G web site on the 4th April at 14.17 it stated that the customer refused delivery. At 14.28 it updated to say there was a problem with the address and at 14.32 updated to say the customer had refused delivery. At 14.35 updated again to say it was being returned. Last entry was on the 7th April that it was being processed at the depot. We never received it. I have had six web chats with P2G between the 4th-30th April. On the 26th April, I had an offer of £20 plus cost of delivery (£6.72) from P2G which I rejected. During this time, I also contacted Evri that resulted in an email from Evri Customer Services (20th April) stating that they had lost the parcel. I replied requesting details of the attempted delivery but received no reply. After emailing Evri again on the 23rd asking again for the information I received a phone call from someone called Haleemah on the 25th who apologised and promised to send an email with a link to submit a claim form. I subsequently received an email with the link which only took me to a page that stated “Page not found”. After informing Evri customer services of the problem (to which no reply was forthcoming) a couple of days later I retried the link but it only took me to the Evri website. I believe that I have a good case against both companies but would appreciate guidance on which path to go down. I have read most of the information on this site, which has been very helpful and much appreciated, particularly the various court transcripts. I appreciate that this process is a marathon and not a sprint and am fully aware that I need to get everything in the correct order before starting on the legal road. I am sure this covers the current position but if further info is needed please let me know.  
    • Everything at small claims revolves around informality and common sense, there are no "special" ways to have to do things. The site manager's WS will be like yours and the one I linked to - just much shorter.  There need to be the introductory hearings about the case, the parties, etc., and the concluding Statement of Truth. In the middle just a couple of paragraphs where they say who they are, how they know you, and about permission being given by the landowner to use the car park. Superb.  I've added another section about the signage to the suggested WS sections three posts above. Yes, it's perfectly possible.  It'd be a good idea to phone the court on the 18th to see if they have paid.
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
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      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Early release from the initial covid lockdown due to the speedy vaccine rollout whilst EU dithered 

The ability to quickly send weapons to Ukraine whist Germany offered 5000 helmets and Napoleon did his Neville Chamberlain impersonation 

Close relative now having bought 3 bed house due to his employer now having to pay wages that recognise his skills ,as they are now being unable to rely on cheap EU labour 

Of course lots more needs to be done 

Get fracking ASAP, ignore the Swampies and beard and sandal brigade and use agricultural land for food production not for unsightly solar farms and stop turning the countryside into a giant theme park 

 

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19 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Early release from the initial covid lockdown due to the speedy vaccine rollout whilst EU dithered 

 

Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit

 

19 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

The ability to quickly send weapons to Ukraine

 

Absolutely nothing to do with Brexit, and Sweden sent more and faster, as did the USA among others - they just didn't bull themselves up doing it like Johnson the liar did

 

19 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Close relative now having bought 3 bed house due to his employer now having to pay wages that recognise his skills ,as they are now being unable to rely on cheap EU labour 

 

Thats good money for a cabbage picker - or horse manure spreader

Wheres the details for some sort of credibility?

 

 

19 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Of course lots more needs to be done 

Get fracking ASAP, ignore the Swampies and beard and sandal brigade and use agricultural land for food production not for unsightly solar farms

 

and stop turning the countryside into a giant theme park 

 

 

Thats more like a Brexiter

 

Now how about some real benefits .. other than people like water companies being allowed to doodoo on everyone for profits that will go abroad

 

 

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Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

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1 hour ago, theoldrouge said:

Early release from the initial covid lockdown due to the speedy vaccine rollout whilst EU dithered 

The ability to quickly send weapons to Ukraine 

 

Erm, neither were controlled by the EU and we could have done exactly the same as we did if we'd remained in the EU.

 

So neither are 'Brexit benefits'.

 

 

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So @theoldrougeas you are struggling to find any legitimate benefits to anyone .. I'll help

 

So, given that rampant Brexhiters like Smugg and deadwood moved chunks of their own businesses to the EU or abroad (dyson, JCB), despite railing on (lying) about how great Brexhit would be for UK 'business'

- Apart from that they wanted hard Brexhit with a bonfire of regs and protections so they could profit from modern slavery working conditions and poisoning Englands once green and pleasant land for profit (as you also promote) while they live in protected estates or abroad

 

So what 'businesses' have actually benefited from leaving the EU - and I'm not talking about a few lorry drivers, I'm talking BIGtime benefited (bigger than Energy company profiteering)?

 

Clue: What were the EU implementing. and have been rapidly implementing since the UK and its resistance to it left?

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The Tory Legacy

Record high: Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes

with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

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LOL

Quite true HB - but the populist tories are trying to end that aren't they

 

.. and its arguable that situation is mostly maintaining benefits rather than losing like the rest of us ?

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The other third, Rees-mogg/Redwood investments and suchlike, have moved to the EU ... ?

 

... 1% (eg DUP enterprises) is jumping up and down shouting - stop these godless heathens making money and bring them back under the control of our God given English masters or rot in hellfire and damnation for eternity

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The Tory Legacy

Record high: Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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14 hours ago, Ethel Street said:

 

Erm, neither were controlled by the EU and we could have done exactly the same as we did if we'd remained in the EU.

 

So neither are 'Brexit benefits'.

 

 

Absolute nonsense from obviously another obsessive remainer

Do you not think that we would have had to conform with everything the EU ordered 

The main at risk groups were vaccinated 

before the EU got its act together 

As for weapons as I said ,we acted whilst the Germans were offering helmets and Napoleon was doing his Neville Chamberlain impersonation 

 

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8 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Do you not think that we would have had to conform with everything the EU ordered

 

LOL - no, we didn't

and we were a significant part of both making the rules and blocking any we didn't like, as you would see if you put some effort into answering my question rather than just spouting nonsense.

 

 

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2 hours ago, tobyjugg2 said:

So @theoldrougeas you are struggling to find any legitimate benefits to anyone .. I'll help

 

So, given that rampant Brexhiters like Smugg and deadwood moved chunks of their own businesses to the EU or abroad (dyson, JCB), despite railing on (lying) about how great Brexhit would be for UK 'business'

- Apart from that they wanted hard Brexhit with a bonfire of regs and protections so they could profit from modern slavery working conditions and poisoning Englands once green and pleasant land for profit (as you also promote) while they live in protected estates or abroad

 

So what 'businesses' have actually benefited from leaving the EU - and I'm not talking about a few lorry drivers, I'm talking BIGtime benefited (bigger than Energy company profiteering)?

 

Clue: What were the EU implementing. and have been rapidly implementing since the UK and its resistance to it left?

Actually the relative works in a profession that without him and others like him your life would grind to a halt

I am pleased to say his life has improved enormously as a direct consequence of Brexit

As for polluting the countryside do you not think that solar panels spread far and wide over prime agricultural land, that will one day end up in landfill, already achieve that

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29 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Absolute nonsense from obviously another obsessive remainer

Do you not think that we would have had to conform with everything the EU ordered 

The main at risk groups were vaccinated 

before the EU got its act together 

As for weapons as I said ,we acted whilst the Germans were offering helmets and Napoleon was doing his Neville Chamberlain impersonation 

 

 

Not nonsense and pointing out that you are wrong about how the EU works in relation to public health and military matters doesn't make anyone either obsessive or a remainer. They are 'national competencies' and the EU does not control them.  

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1 hour ago, theoldrouge said:

Actually the relative works in a profession that without him and others like him your life would grind to a halt

I am pleased to say his life has improved enormously as a direct consequence of Brexit

 

Yep, like I said, lorry drivers. valuable and essential folk in the UK and around the world have done well out of the Brexit backlash.

 

 

1 hour ago, theoldrouge said:

As for polluting the countryside do you not think that solar panels spread far and wide over prime agricultural land, that will one day end up in landfill, already achieve that

 

prime agricultural land!  - horse- hogwash - maybe a couple where the populist Tory landowner got some special deal.

Spouting garbage just shows that Brexhiters seem to run on soundbites, without any capacity or will to validate the rubbish they hoover up and regurgitate.

 

In any case - you not heard about the crops rotting in the fields through

1. No migrant workers to pick them

2. Climate change devastating whats there.

3. Reduced more expensive export markets due to Johnson & cos Brexhit

 

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Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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4 hours ago, Ethel Street said:

 

Not nonsense and pointing out that you are wrong about how the EU works in relation to public health and military matters doesn't make anyone either obsessive or a remainer. They are 'national competencies' and the EU does not control them.  

Oh really “France 24 “wrong as well then about The European Health Union 

 

Before Covid-19, the EU left health policy to national governments. However, Brussels took charge of vaccine procurement in the summer of 2020, as part of what Von der Leyen called a “European Health Union” in her September “State of the Union” address.

Member states were free to opt out of this supranational scheme, but none did so. Brexit made it “easy” for the UK to go its own way on vaccines, Bouzou observed.

 

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Corrected

 

 

“Yep, like I said, lorry drivers. valuable and essential folk in the UK and around the world have done well out of Brexit “

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17 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Corrected

 

 

“Yep, like I said, lorry drivers. valuable and essential folk in the UK and around the world have done well out of Brexit “

 

If they're working in the UK, yes. I don't think the ones doing international trips are all that happy.

Illegitimi non carborundum

 

 

 

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Oh really “France 24 “wrong as well then about The European Health Union 

 

Before Covid-19, the EU left health policy to national governments. However, Brussels took charge of vaccine procurement in the summer of 2020, as part of what Von der Leyen called a “European Health Union” in her September “State of the Union” address.

35 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

Member states were free to opt out of this supranational scheme, but none did so.

 

 

So what part of that are you choosing to misunderstand

- Seems pretty easy and straightforward

 

.. and how did the populists Indian 'partners' respond when they were authorised to manufacture the vaccine in India

- kept them didn't they?

..mind you that was after Johnson tried to do it to the EU - what comes around eh?

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Record high: Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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28 minutes ago, theoldrouge said:

 

Thank you. But there came a time about a year ago when the UK was overtaken, so it's swings and roundabouts.

 

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1 hour ago, theoldrouge said:

Oh really “France 24 “wrong as well then about The European Health Union 

 

Before Covid-19, the EU left health policy to national governments. However, Brussels took charge of vaccine procurement in the summer of 2020, as part of what Von der Leyen called a “European Health Union” in her September “State of the Union” address.

Member states were free to opt out of this supranational scheme, but none did so. Brexit made it “easy” for the UK to go its own way on vaccines, Bouzou observed.

 

 

Thank you for confirming exactly what I said. If we'd still been in the EU we could, and no doubt would, have done exactly the same as we did do and the EU couldn't have stopped us or made us do anything different.

 

And as you also confirm no EU state was required to join the the voluntary support scheme the EU put together. Of course few of them opted out. Very few EU countries have their own global pharmaceutical industry or vaccine research facilities. Malta or Cyprus or Bulgaria (for example) were hardly likely to start developing their own vaccine research and pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in the middle of a pandemic were they? So of course they opted to go with an an EU led purchasing programme.

 

If you don't mind me saying so you seem to be rather missing the point. No-one disputes that the UK had a successful vaccine rollout programme. The point is that it would have had just as successful a programme if we were still in the EU. Brexit is irrelevant to the success of the rollout.

 

And anyway the EU programme was about procurement, buying the vaccines, not about rollout. Every EU country, even when it stayed in the procurement programme, made its own decisons about rollout.

 

Incidentally did you notice that the France24 article was published right back in the early days of the pandemic - 6th February 2021 - so isn't an assessment of the overall strengths and weaknesses of anyone's  vaccine roll out? Britain's early lead was soon eroded.

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and just in case you still refuse to see even after the rational explanation of @Ethel Street, (or simply didn't bother reading all the 'words')

take the word of an apparent rabid, single minded, fracking supporting, EU hating brexhiters' soundbites:

 

22 hours ago, theoldrouge said:

 

Do you not think that we would have had to conform with everything the EU ordered 

 

 

16 hours ago, theoldrouge said:

 

Member states were free to opt out of this supranational scheme

 

 

 

 

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Crumbling: Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

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