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    • Absolutely for the agreement they are referring to.... puts them on notice that this is going to be a uphill fight.   Andy 
    • Particular's of claim for reference only 1. the claim is for the sum of £6163.61due by the defendant under an agreement regulated by the consumer credit act 1974 for hsbc uk bank plc. Account (16 digits) 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 credit act 1974 which as not been compiled with. 3. The debt was legally assigned to the Claimant on 23/08/23, notice on which as been given to the defendant.  4. 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 issue of these proceedings in the sum of £117.53 the Claimant claims the sum of £6281.14. Suggested defence 1. The Defendant contends the particulars of the claim are generic in nature. The Defendant accordingly sets out its case below and relies on CPR r 16.3 (3) in relation to any particular allegation to which a specific response has not been made. 2. The claimant has not complied with paragraph 3 of the PAPDC (Pre action protocol) failed to serve a letter of claim pre claim pursuant to PAPDC changes of the 1st of October 2017. It is respectfully requested that the court take this into consideration pursuant 7.1 PAPDC. 3. Paragraph 1 is noted. I have in the past had financial dealings but do not recognise this specific account number or recollect any outstanding debt and have therefore requested clarification. 4. Paragraph 2 is denied. I have not been served with a default notice pursuant to the consumer credit act 1974. 5. Paragraph 3 is denied. i am unaware of any legal assignment or notice of assignment. A copy of assignment was sent by Overdales solicitors when acknowledgement of receipt of CPR request was received, but this was not the original.   6. Paragraph 4 is denied. Neither the original creditor or the assignee have served notice pursuant to sec86c of the Credit Consumer Act 1974 Notice of Sums in Arrears and therefore prevented from charging interest on debt regulated by the CCA1974. 7. The defendant submitted a request for a copy of the alleged agreement pursuant to s78 CCA 1974. The claimant has acknowledged receipt of request but has failed to comply. The claimant has failed to provide any evidence of balance or Default Notice requested by CPR 31.14 8. It is therefore denied with regards to defendant owing any monies to the claimant. therefore the claimant is put to strict proof to:  a.  Show how the defendant has entered into an agreement with HSBC. b.  Show and evidence the nature of breach and service of a Default notice pursuant to section 87 (1) CCA 1974. c.  Show and quantify how the defendant has reached the amount claimed for. d.  Show how the claimant has the legal right, either under statute or equity  to issue a claim. 8.  As per civil procedure rule 16.5 (4) it is expected claimant prove the allegation that the money is owed. 9.  Until such time the claimant can comply to a section 78 request he is not entitled, while the default continues, to enforce the agreement 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.     .
    • OK, well rereading the court orders from March, in the cold light of day rather than when knackered late at night, it is quite clear that on 25 June there will only be a preliminary hearing about Laura representing her son.  Nothing more. It's lazy DCBL who haven't read things properly and have stupidly sent their Witness Statement early. Laura & I had already been working on a WS, and here it is.  It needs tweaking now after reading the rubbish that DCBL sent and after all of LFI's comments.  But the "meat" is there. Defendant's WS - version 1.pdf
    • Morning, I purchased a car from Big Motoring World on 10th December 2023 for £14899.00. On the 15th December I had a problem with the auto start stop function of the car in which the car would stop in the middle of the road with a stop start error message. I called the big assist and the car was booked in for February. The BMW was with them for a week and it came back with the auto stop start feature all fine and all error codes cleared on the report from big motoring world. within 5 days I had the same issue. Warning light coming on and the car stopping. I called big assist again and the car was again booked in for an other repair in May. Car was taken back in may, they had the car for a week and returned with the report saying no issue with the auto stop start feature and blamed my driving. Within 5 days of having the car back it broke down again. This time undrivable. I had the rac pick my car up and take to Stephen James BMW for a full diagnostic. The diagnostic came back with the car needing a new fuel system as magnetic swarf was found.  I have sent big motoring world a letter stating all the issues and that under the consumer rights act 2015 I have asked for a replacement vehicle. all reports from Stephen James BMW have been sent over to big motoring world. Big motoring world have come back and said they will respond to my complaint within 14 days for the date of my complaint letter. I am not feeling confident on the response from them, what are my next steps?   Thanks in advance. 
    • That is really good is that a mistake last off "driver doesn't have a licence" I assume that should be keeper? The Court requested me to send the Court and applicant proof of my sons disability from their GP this clearly shows he has Severe Mental Impairement, he is also illiterate.  I naively assumed once the applicant received this that they would drop the claim.  It offends me that Bank has asked the Judge to throw the case out at the preliminary hearing and to make us pay up.
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Been trying on phone for last 3 days to get hold of the court to pay my fees.  Emailed them and they say it will take 29 working days to reply to my email.  Website says not to just turn up without an appointment... what a system!  

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courts are closed at the w/end.

 

and mondays are always busy for northants bulk court

 

 

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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

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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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Just to be sure, the directions normally provide a number to call in order to make payment.

Are you definitely calling that number and not one which is listed elsewhere on the internet which may be for enquiries rather than payments?

Alternatively you could pay by cheque and send it in the post.

 

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Apparently I tell them my number over email and someone then calls me at a random time to take paymebr over the phone.  Waiting for someone to call me at any point now. 

 

2023 apparently!  Where are the online payment options?? 

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Should i send a copy of my witness statement to the defendant?  The document i got from the court says i need to 'serve and file' by the date.   I have already sent to the court but have just received the defendants statement so im not sure if i should forward mine to them? 

 

edit: nevermind, I have realised that 'Served' means to send to the defendant so i have done this

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got my hearing date coming up shortly and was going through things ahead of time.  

Not sure what to expect as far as process is concerned though.   At the last hearing I barely spoke and the judge basically asked to confirm details and then told us to get an independent report and then we left

At this final hearing am I going to be standing up to make a statement and counter arguments etc or will it be another situation where I am mainly responding to questions from the judge?  

Should i prepare an opening statement of sorts?  Should i expect the judge to have read my witness statement and attachments in depth?

Its supposed to be up to 1.5hrs long but I am not sure what will take that length of time

 

Also it states on Citizens Advice "If you lose you might have to pay some of the defendant’s costs - like travel and lost wages"

Is this a realistic thing that might happen? 

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44 minutes ago, DiscoCow said:

Also it states on Citizens Advice "If you lose you might have to pay some of the defendant’s costs - like travel and lost wages"

typically the very worst would be about £100 mark, they as you can, can claim time off work, thats £90 at MAX. and small costs like postage etc

 

46 minutes ago, DiscoCow said:

Should i expect the judge to have read my witness statement and attachments in depth?

god yes i would be shocked if not!!

speak when/if spoke too or if you disagree with something the opposition say but be polite!!

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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thank you.  So you dont think i would need to stand up and present my case again?  Its just a case of clarifying/answering questions as needed and requesting time to speak to rebuff the points raised by defendants? 

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urm..judge lottery IMHO.

or they play golf with their friends.

 

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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yeah i felt that it may have been a different decision with a different person.   He laboured so hard that 116k miles was an extremely high mileage for a car so the bar for satisfactory quality was going to be much lower.  116k isnt that much for a used car in the grand scheme of things. High yes but not horrifically high

 

In hindsight I am just annoyed that the process is such that you dont get a chance to rebuff what the judge is saying past your 1 allocated moment, just have to sit there in the summing up and accept it

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Thank you for your coming back to report the outcome, I'm sorry to hear it wasn't what you wanted.

I understand it may be difficult to read after the fact but I think the real issue was the diagnosis report.

I recall when I first read it thinking that it reads as a stitch up of the owner and made very little of the fact that if coolant did leak it must have done so due to a problem inherent with the engine, particularly as the coolant system was assessed as intact.

I recall you saying the judge suggested that the independent report should be carried out by the AA or the RAC.

It later turns out the report was carried out by a company called Automotive Consulting Engineers Ltd which, unless I have misunderstood, are not associated with either the AA or the RAC and may have been appointed by the Defendant. A check of their reviews on trust pilot shows a string of negative experiences all of which have been made by car owners and not by garages.

If they were appointed by the Defendant then regrettably I think this was an error and for anyone reading in the future it is important that an expert witness is not left to the other side to organise.

I'm not suggesting this is what happened, but it is easy to imagine that a garage has lots of useful contacts they can call upon when they require a diagnosis report and who it might favour as a result.

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Yeah you are right and the judge wasn't very happy with the report either. 

Unfortunately AA cancelled their appointment and said they couldn't do the report and recommended this other company 

But it's fairly obvious that the garage have directed them to a certain conclusion so I should have just done one myself as well.  Unfortunately I didn't know about this until the day final evidence had to be submitted 

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help with some advice

Have tried to arrange collection of the vehicle as scrap but the dealer has said they will not release the vehicle back to me until i pay £700+vat for storage at £20 a week..or sign the car over to them and call it final

During their initial response to the mcol claim they said they reserve the right to claim storage fees.  They havent up to this point mentioned anything about it, i havent accepted any terms relating to it.  

During the court hearing, the legal representative asked at the end if they could claim costs and the judge said he wasnt going to award costs. 

Where do i stand on this? 

I feel that a contract hasnt been formed as i havent been given any details of terms and I havent accepted them.  Although is the previous comment about them reserving the right to claim fees valid for my acceptance as i carried on with the claim? 

I feel like i am being blackmailed here to sign the car over to them for nothing

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remind them of the judges ruling...no costs allowed?

 

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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as you 'lost' its a sep fee .

though i'd be pretty firm on them needing to prove you agreed to such storage fees....

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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