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    • One other point to note, the more I read, the more I study, the more proficient I feel I am becoming in this area. Make no mistake DBCL if you are reading this, when I win in court, if I have the grounds to make any claims against you, such as breach of GDPR, I shall be doing so.
    • Yep, I read that and thought about trying to find out what the consideration and grace period is at Riverside but not sure I can. I know they say "You must tell us the specific consideration/grace period at a site if our compliance team or our agents ask what it is"  but I doubt they would disclose it to the public, maybe I should have asked in my CPR 31.14 letter? Yes, I think I can get rid of 5 minutes. I am also going to include a point about BPA CoP: 13.2 The reference to a consideration period in 13.1 shall not apply where a parking event takes place. I think that is Deception .... They giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other!
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    • the Town and Country [advertisments ] Regulations 2007 are not easy to understand. Most Council planing officials don't so it's good that you found one who knows. Although he may not have been right if the rogues have not been "controlling" in the car park for that long. The time only starts when the ANPR signs go up, not how long the area has been used as a car park.   Sadly I have checked Highview out and they have been there since at least 2014 . I have looked at the BPA Code of Practice version 8 which covers 2023 and that states Re Consideration and Grace Periods 13.3 Where a parking location is one where a limited period of parking is permitted, or where drivers contract to park for a defined period and pay for that service in advance (Pay & Display), this would be considered as a parking event and a Grace Period of at least 10 minutes must be added to the end of a parking event before you issue a PCN. It then goes on to explain a bit more further down 13.5 You must tell us the specific consideration/grace period at a site if our compliance team or our agents ask what it is. 13.6 Neither a consideration period or a grace period are periods of free parking and there is no requirement for you to offer an additional allowance on top of a consideration or grace period. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________So you have  now only overstayed 5 minutes maximum since BPA quote a minimum of 10 minutes. And it may be that the Riverside does have a longer period perhaps because of the size of the car park? So it becomes even more incumbent on you to remember where the extra 5 minutes could be.  Were you travelling as a family with children or a disabled person where getting them in and out of the car would take longer. Was there difficulty finding a space, or having to queue to get out of the car park . Or anything else that could account for another 5 minutes  without having to claim the difference between the ANPR times and the actual times.
    • Regarding a driver, that HAS paid for parking but input an incorrect Vehicle Registration Number.   This is an easy mistake to make, especially if a driver has access to more than one vehicle. First of all, upon receiving an NTK/PCN it is important to check that the Notice fully complies with PoFA 2012 Schedule 4 before deciding how to respond of course. The general advice is NOT to appeal to the Private Parking Company as, for example, you may identify yourself as driver and in certain circumstances that could harm your defence at a later stage. However, after following a recent thread on this subject, I have come to the conclusion that, in the case of inputting an incorrect Vehicle Registration Number, which is covered by “de minimis” it may actually HARM your defence at a later stage if you have not appealed to the PPC at the first appeal stage and explained that you DID pay for parking and CAN provide proof of parking, it was just that an incorrect VRN was input in error. Now, we all know that the BPA Code of Practice are guidelines from one bunch of charlatans for another bunch of charlatans to follow, but my thoughts are that there could be problems in court if a judge decides that a motorist has not followed these guidelines and has not made an appeal at the first appeal stage, therefore attempting to resolve the situation before it reaches court. From BPA Code of Practice: Section 17:  Keying Errors B) Major Keying Errors Examples of a major keying error could include: • Motorist entered their spouse’s car registration • Motorist entered something completely unrelated to their registration • Motorist made multiple keying errors (beyond one character being entered incorrectly) • Motorist has only entered a small part of their VRM, for example the first three digits In these instances we would expect that such errors are dealt with appropriately at the first appeal stage, especially if it can be proven that the motorist has paid for the parking event or that the motorist attempted to enter their VRM or were a legitimate user of the car park (eg a hospital patient or a patron of a restaurant). It is appreciated that in issuing a PCN in these instances, the operator will have incurred charges including but not limited to the DVLA fee and other processing costs therefore we believe that it is reasonable to seek to recover some of these costs by making a modest charge to the motorist of no more than £20 for a 14-day period from when the keying error was identified before reverting to the charge amount at the point of appeal. Now, we know that the "modest charge" is unenforceable in law, however, it would be up to the individual if they wanted to pay and make the problem go away or in fact if they wanted to contest the issue in court. If the motorist DOES appeal to the PPC explaining the error and the PPC rejects the appeal and the appeal fails, the motorist can use that in his favour at court.   Defence: "I entered the wrong VRN by mistake Judge, I explained this and I also submitted proof of payment for the relevant parking period in my appeal but the PPC wouldn't accept that"   If the motorist DOES NOT appeal to the PPC in the first instance the judge may well use that as a reason to dismiss the case in the claimant's favour because they may decide that they had the opportunity to resolve the matter at a much earlier stage in the proceedings. It is my humble opinion that a motorist, having paid and having proof of payment but entering the wrong VRN, should make an appeal at the first appeal stage in order to prevent problems at a later stage. In this instance, I think there is nothing to be gained by concealing the identity of the driver, especially if at a later stage, perhaps in court, it is said: “I (the driver) entered the wrong VRN.” Whether you agree or not, it is up to the individual to decide …. but worth thinking about. Any feedback, especially if you can prove to the contrary, gratefully received.
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Centrica/CST Manual Claimform - Scottish Gas / training bond. Went dead - now new claimform.


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Fingers crossed for you then but at least you have submitted.

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Hi,

 

I have received a letter today as a notice of proposed allocation to the fast track
 

truthfully again I have no idea what areas I need to fill out or what this fast track even means. 
 

I have until the 14th of October to respond.

 

any help is greatly appreciated 

 

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Its fairly self explanatory...you complete all of it. This form allocates the claim to the appropriate track and moves the claim to your local county court then you will be given further directions to prepare for the hearing.

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Dont throw the towel in just yet....this is  the next stage of the procedure. The DQ offers you a chance to enter into mediation if you do not wish to proceed...if you do not complete and submit the form you will get a CCJ anyway because you have failed to comply with the next stage.

 

A.  Settlement for all   1. tick yes  2 tick no

 

B. 2 tick yes and write reason .... Defendant Litigant in person.

 

C. Leave blank

 

D.  D1 Tick no  D2 leave blank D3 leave blank D4 leave blank

 

E.  Tick no

 

F. 1 witness ...yourself

 

G . Less than 1 day and state any dates you will not be available....holidays etc etc.

 

I.  Leave blank

 

Sign and date...run 3 copies 1 for the court 1 for the claimants solicitor and 1 for your file.

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Ok excellent thanks.

 

i will complete the above first thing and send off. 
 

With regards to the next stage, I’m presuming the will challenge this the whole way? Like at this point is there anyway they will drop it? 
 

I seen bad mojo posted in his thread recently how is has gone 35 days and I had a reply very quickly.

 

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Lets see how keen they are to proceed when they have to pay the  hearing fee on a Fast Track claim :classic_ohmy:

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I have until the 14th of October to respond.

 

Yes as detailed within the Order you received with the N181.

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what happened?

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DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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I had responded to all the letters and documents sent after the one I put in above,

then a reminder was sent because they hadn’t responded so they had a further 30 days to respond,

then a further 14 after that.

They didn’t respond at all so I called the court and they had said it had been throwing out at their end. 

from that I then received a small claims court document from CST law,

everytime I called for approx 4 weeks the case handler was busy.

Haven’t heard anything since they sent the documents.

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so they never paid the court fee and the claim was struk out by the court?

have you this in writing?

you should never be ringing the they!!

 

 

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Hello, 

I hadn’t heard anything in regards to this again until now, another claim filed at the Carlisle court, with a breakdown of all costs and copy’s of my contract and the training bond in this claim.

is it worth me conceding and offering to pay now?

Looks like they aren’t giving up, would my wages be arrested if this did go to court?

thanks for any help 

just for context:

1: At all material times the Claimant carried on business as a supplier of Gas and Electricity to both commercial and residential customers. The Defendant was employed as a Finance Analyst by the Claimant.

that is the opening sentence, which is wrong, that’s not what I was employed as.
 

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God no don't give .in.

 

File out our sticky again please.

 

Dx

 

 

 

 

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Around post 9/10/11

 

Dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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Name of the Claimant ? Centrica / CST LAW

 

Date of issue – 16/11/22

 

Particulars of Claim

 

What is the claim for – 

Over payment of salary / expenses 

 

What is the total value of the claim? £11580.10 (previous amount they had tried to claim) New claim now: £9743.88
 

Have you received prior notice of a claim being issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre Action Protocol) ? Yes, previous posts, notice of a court case, they hadn’t responded in time and then heard no further until approx March this year with a small claims court hearing - never heard anything after that correspondence until 16/11/22 - heard nothing since that date either 
 

Have you changed your address since the time at which the debt referred to in the claim was allegedly incurred? Yes, centrica has been informed of the change.
 

Did you inform the claimant of your change of address? Yes, centrica

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 ? Training Centre in person (signed an e contract but nothing shows I’ve signed the training bond) 
 

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. Assigned to CST law
 

Were you aware the account had been assigned – did you receive a Notice of Assignment? No - not initially until communication from CST
 

Did you receive a Default Notice from the original creditor? I received a letter in 2017 from centrica then nothing since. 
 

Have you been receiving statutory notices headed “Notice of Sums in Arrears”  or " Notice of Arrears "– at least once a year ?  No, only the court and small money claims court letters as correspondence
 

Why did you cease payments? I never started, was advised not to as they wouldn’t chase, advised by old BG manager and ex colleague.
 

What was the date of your last payment? Never given one.
 

Was there a dispute with the original creditor that remains unresolved? No, only this - however they stated I had electronic goods on a work place scheme which I did, I then had to repay this through my tax code due to leaving. So they are trying to claim for this, and I have already paid it back via my tax as far as I’m aware


 

Did you communicate any financial problems to the original creditor and make any attempt to enter into a debt management plan? No, none. 
 

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The debt has not been assigned to cst law, they are a solicitors and can't buy debts and you've had no notice of assignment.

 

I would follow exactly what you did before.

 

Dx

please don't hit Quote...just type we know what we said earlier..

DCA's view debtors as suckers, marks and mugs

NO DCA has ANY legal powers whatsoever on ANY debt no matter what it's Type

and they

are NOT and can NEVER  be BAILIFFS. even if a debt has been to court..

If everyone stopped blindly paying DCA's Tomorrow, their industry would collapse overnight... 

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  • dx100uk changed the title to Centrica/CST Manual Claimform - Scottish Gas / training bond. Went dead - now new claimform.

I have nothing to defend to in this case, previously I had a template and form to fill out. Where as this has purely been a document sent via email by CST law.

 
should I just leave it until the next communication or what can I do in the mean time to defend this? 
 

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