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    • pop up on the bulk court website detailed on the claimform. [if it is not working return after the w/end or the next day if week time] . When you select ‘Register’, you will be taken to a screen titled ‘Sign in using Government Gateway’. Choose ‘Create sign in details’ to register for the first time. You will be asked to provide your name, email address, set a password and a memorable recovery word. You will be emailed your Government Gateway 12-digit User ID. You should make a note of your memorable word, or password as these are not included in the email.  then log in to the bulk court Website .  select respond to a claim and select the start AOS box. .  then using the details required from the claimform . defend all leave jurisdiction unticked  you DO NOT file a defence at this time [BUT you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 ] click thru to the end confirm and exit the website .. get a CCA Request running to the claimant . https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332502-cca-request-consumer-credit-act-1974-updated-january-2015/ .. Leave the £1 PO unsigned and uncrossed . get a CPR  31:14  request running to the solicitors [if one is not listed send to the claimant] ... https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332546-legal-cpr-3114-request-request-for-information-when-a-claim-has-been-issued/ . .use our other CPR letter if the claim is for an OD or Telecom Debt or Util debt]  https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/332546-legal-cpr-3114-request-request-for-information-when-a-claim-has-been-issued/ on BOTH type your name ONLY Do Not sign anything .do not ever use or give an email . you DO NOT await the return of ANY paperwork  you MUST file a defence regardless by day 33 from the date on the claimform [1 in the count] ..............  
    • Which Court have you received the claim from ? Civil National Business Centre, Northampton MCOL Northampton N1 ? Manual Claim CCMCC (Salford) ? New beta WWW.MONEYCLAIMS.SERVICE.GOV.UK ? If possible please scan redact and upload a full page copy of page 1 of the claim form. (not the response page or AOS) Name of the Claimant ? CA Auto Finance UK Limited How many defendant's  joint or self ? One (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. 02 May 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  Unpaid car loan By an agreement in writing dated 26 November 2015 and made between the Claimant and the Defendant, the Claimant loaned the Defendant a sum of money. The agreement was Regulated. The Defendant failed to make payment of the sums due and the Agreement was terminated by the Claimant. On the 7 February 2019 the balance due from the Defendant was £8,196,38. The Defendant has paid £0.00.                                                             THE CLAIMANT THEREFORE CLAIMS  1. £8,196,38 2. Contractual interest to the date hereof £0.00 3. Further interest at 10.70 per annum (£0.00) per day until judgement or sooner payment. 4. Costs to be assessed. CLAIMANTS CLAIM £8,196.38                                                                                                                                            OUR REF HXC/M0052854                                                                                                                                                DIRECT LINE 01293 596922                      What is the total value of the claim? £8751.38 Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? No Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? No Did you inform the claimant of your change of address? n/a Is the claim for - a Bank Account (Overdraft) or credit card or loan or catalogue or mobile phone account? No When did you enter into the original agreement before or after April 2007 ? After Do you recall how you entered into the agreement...On line /In branch/By post ? In Branch 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. Original Creditor was FCA Automotive Services UK Limited Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? No and No 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 ? No Why did you cease payments? Unaffordable What was the date of your last payment? Feb 28 2018 Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? Yes (irresponsible lending and they did not supply all documents when CCA sent. The Terms and Conditions they sent as part of the request were different to the original Ts and Cs. Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No   PRIVATE.pdf
    • 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 – 03 MAY 2024 Particulars of Claim What is the claim for – the reason they have issued the claim?  1.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). 2.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. 3.THE DEBT WAS LEGALLY ASSIGNED TO THE CLAIMANT ON (DATE) NOVEEMBER 2016 NOTICE OF WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE DEFENDANT. 4. 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 SUM BE 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 stressed 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
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      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.

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      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.

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As he waded through the empty plates, drunken bodies and even emptier bottles and glasses,

he said to a half unconscious drunk: 'anything broken',

to which the drunk replied 'only the swing and a few tables and chairs'

 

So Johnson muttered 'ah - I'm assured no rules have been broken then

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To me it all seems to be about the definition of what the word 'rules' means. What happens when the 'rules' are broken?

Rules can be an ambiguous analogy for those who choose to bend them. Rules and laws are important because they help to obtain and continue a balanced level of safety, fairness, order and justice. Rules help us learn and prepare for living in a wider society. If the rules were blurred for the Gov gatherings the phrase common sense comes to mind for those who participated. There were others who didn't attend because they had common sense of the rules. My thought on this case one rule for one and one rule for another.

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So true about 'rules' and 'guidance'. I'm struggling to see the difference atm and wonder if the defence team are trying to muddy the waters.

 

He seems to be going full Trump and is saying the committee held back documents that would 'clear his name'. I don't know why he doesn't provide them himself.

 

He's also saying in the article below that the committee didn't understand the difference between rules and guidance. Tp me, this comes down to common sense, as Determinator says.

 

I also don't understand why the 'Abba party' hasn't been investigated as we thought at the time it didn't follow the rules. Johnson has admitted to being there.

 

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So true about 'rules' and 'guidance'. I'm struggling to see the difference atm and wonder if the defence team are trying to muddy the waters.

 

He seems to be going full Trump and is saying the committee held back documents that would 'clear his name'. I don't know why he doesn't provide them himself.

 

He's also saying in the article below that the committee didn't understand the difference between rules and guidance. Tp me, this comes down to common sense, as Determinator says.

 

I also don't understand why the 'Abba party' hasn't been investigated as we thought at the time it didn't follow the rules. Johnson has admitted being there.

 

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Interesting thoughts from David Allen Green on the hearing. Here's an extract.

 

But Johnson was not taking any chances: he was lawyered-up to the hilts when no lawyers were needed at all.

 

However, because he had lawyered-up, and his lawyers had come up with elaborate and technical arguments about fairness and evidence, then the committee responded in kind.

 

And the the committee had access to its own legal advice, not least that of Sir Ernest Ryder – the former lord justice of appeal and senior president of tribunals. There are few, if any, lawyers with a better understanding of the rules of evidence and fairness.

 

And so yesterday saw that the heavily prepped Johnson met and confounded by an even better prepped committee.

 

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Even question time

 

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Yep, fill the studio with Boris voters - and they still cant get a hand up

 

 

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A thoughtful article from Robert Shrimsley in the FT about the effect of Johnson and Brexit on government and the Tories.

 

'Rage is no substitute for political strategy'. It's easier and more interesting to read than the title might suggest.

 

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Johnson's taxpayer-funded legal bill has gone up again. There's still a debate about whether the public should be paying it at all and apparently the Treasury didn't sign it off.

 

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The BBC has found the Treasury did not sign off the decision to use taxpayer funds to foot the bill.

 

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I'm putting this here because of the Brexit connection but the effect on freedom of expression in the UK is very concerning.

 

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The court of appeal partially allowed Arron Banks’ appeal. The effect on public interest journalism could be chilling

 

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Worrying isn't HB!

 

When those with money use it to pursue political aims, then use the Courts to go after anyone who has questions about them. 

 

 

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Yes, justice appearing to be for the rich isn't right.

 

The government do seem to be aware of this but I'm not sure how far they've got in trying to crack down on SLAPP litigation. I don't think we're aware of how often this is used by powerful people to suppress articles about them that they don't like. Quite a few rich Russians and Arabs, from what I've seen.

 

 

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I think what's also unfair in the Carole Cadwalladr case is that as I understand it, reporting on Russian contacts by Banks and Wigmore was confirmed by Isabel Oakeshott after she wrote the book on The Bad Boys of Brexit. She put extracts of their emails in the Telegraph/Times not that long ago.

 

Early last year, Cadwalladr tweeted: 'I wonder if Isabel Oakeshott will now go public with the private signed statement she gave the editor of the Sunday Times in which she called Arron Banks an ‘agent of influence for the Russian state’?'

 

But allegations of Russian contacts could have been a reason for the award of 60% of Banks's costs against Cadwalladr. I think the Byline Times are continuing to dig into this, as they believe there could be more to it.

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So the Cabinet Office has admitted to not having the documents it said were unambiguously irrelevant to the enquiry. How does it know that if it hasn't even seen them?

Johnson seems to have changed his message today and looks to be contradicting the Cabinet Office. 

If there's nothing to hide, why does it feel like a cover-up?

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I suppose it might go quiet until some time tomorrow on No10 vs Lady Hallett.

If I've understood so far, Johnson is saying he's happy for documents to be released to the commission, even the ones he said would be an invasion of privacy and a threat to national security. But he says the Cab Office haven't asked him about releasing them.

And now his allies are saying he may release them direct. Nobody seems to be sure where the documents are.

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Here is David Allen Green, legal blogger, interpreting the correspondence between Lady Hallett and the inquiry and the Cab Office. Several leading legal commentators think things are stacked against the Cab Office.

The requirement for a signed statement of truth is significant – and you may recall that the Miller II case on the prorogation of parliament was lost by the government because nobody was willing to provide a statement of truth as to the actual reasons for the prorogation.

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I wonder if there are messages which are embarrassing to Government?

Boris may not be bothered, as he may think he can talk his way out of any situation. But Rishi may be thinking that the Tories cannot afford negative media coverage, a year before a General Election.

In the Civil Service, staff are subject to disciplinary actions, if they have broken rules on use of social media. And I am aware of several Civil Servants who have been dismissed, due to breaking social media rules, as they had posted messages critical of Government policies.

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UB, the government seem to be getting more and more hardline about criticism. I expect you saw outside experts who've been excluded because they made a few posts on social media disagreeing with government policy. This limits good advice that HMG could be getting.

Views about the current stand off include that Johnson is trying to show up the Cab Office by offering all of the unredacted documents. A lot of people think it's more about keeping stuff that could embarrass Sunak and other ministers under wraps.

Another view that I can agree with is that Johnson thinks that if he's going down, he'll take plenty of other people with him. I think he's vindictive enough after being deposed to do this.

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Well I can see it from the Tories point of view. They have won 3 elections since 2015  the 2019 election giving them an 80 seat majority.

They have implemented Brexit ?

They dealt with Covid pandemic, helping to deliver largest vaccinations programme  the UK has ever seen.

They have provided billions of pounds of support to Ukraine to help them defend against the invasion by Russia.

The last 6 year or so, have probably been one of the most difficult periods the UK has faced. 

According to opinion polls, the Tories look like they will lose the next General Election.

If they keep feeling bitter about the current level of criticism, this will guarantee they lose the election.

There is still a chance Labour will implode before the election, as some of the Corbynistas have not signed up fully to Starmers version of the party.

 

 

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Yes that would be my hope, that there is another referendum on PR.

Last referendum offered AV+ and that was rejected.

Older generations still believe first past the post enables stronger Government and better local representation.  

Sadly not enough Labour MP's are in favour of PR or they won't admit to it.

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