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    • Oh I see! thats confusing, for some reason the terms and conditions that Evri posted in that threads witness statement are slightly different than the t&cs on packlinks website. Their one says enter into a contract with the transport agency, but the website one says enter into a contract with paclink. via website: (c) Each User will enter into a contract with Packlink for the delivery of its Goods through the chosen Transport Agency. via evri witness statement in that thread: (c) Each User shall then enter into its own contract with the chosen Transport Agency. Packlink does not have any control over, and disclaims all liability that may arise in contracts between a User and a Transport Agency I read your post at #251, so I should use the second one (and changing the screenshot in the court bundle), since I am saying I have a contract with Evri? Is that correct EDIT: Oh I understand the rest of your conversation. you're saying if I was to do this i would have to fully adjust my ws to use the consumer rights act instead of rights of third parties. In that case should I just edit the terms and stick with the third parties plan?. And potentially if needed just bring up the CRA in the hearing, as you guys did in that thread  
    • First, those are the wrong terms,  read posts 240-250 of the thread ive linked to Second donough v stevenson should be more expanded. You should make refernece to the three fold duty of care test as well. Use below as guidance: The Defendant failed its duty of care to the Claimant. As found in Donoghue v Stevenson negligence is distinct and separate to any breach of contract. Furthermore, as held in the same case there need not be a contract between the Claimant and the Defendant for a duty to be established, which in the case of the Claimant on this occasion is the Defendant’s duty of care to the Claimant’s parcel whilst it is in their possession. By losing the Claimant’s parcel the Defendant has acted negligently and breached this duty of care. As such the Claimant avers that even if it is found that the Defendant not be liable in other ways, by means of breach of contract, should the court find there is no contract between Claimant and Defendant, the Claimant would still have rise to a claim on the grounds of the Defendant’s negligence and breach of duty of care to his parcel whilst it was in the Defendant’s possession, as there need not be a contract to give rise to a claim for breach of duty of care.  The court’s attention is further drawn to Caparo Industries plc v Dickman (1990), 2 AC 605 in which a three fold test was used to determine if a duty of care existed. The test required that: (i) Harm must be a reasonably foreseeable result of the defendant’s conduct; (ii) A relationship of proximity must exist and (iii) It must be fair, just and reasonable to impose liability.  
    • Thank you. here's the changes I made 1) removed indexed statement of truth 2) added donough v Stevenson in paragraph 40, just under the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 paragraph about reasonable care and skill. i'm assuming this is a good place for it? 3) reworded paragraph 16 (now paragraph 12), and moved the t&cs paragraphs below it then. unless I understood you wrong it seems to fit well. or did you want me to remove the t&cs paragraphs entirely? attached is the updated draft, and thanks again for the help. WS and court bundle-1 fourth draft redacted.pdf
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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.

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      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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Please will you tell us the name of the company.

Also, how much are we talking about?

How long has has she been working there and has she accrued any holiday pay

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Also please tell us the precise date that she left the company

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I have put the word out to one of our people @Emmzzi who is extremely knowledgeable about employment law but in the meantime I would suggest that you make an immediate complaint to the employment tribunal.

You have a very short time to do this – the time limit is three months and I understand that your daughter has already left her job nine weeks ago.

You need to get this going.

She would be claiming unfair dismissal on the basis that she has been constructively dismissed. It's a long time since I've done this kind of stuff but I can tell you the constructive dismissal if actively means that the employers have created a situation which is so intolerable that they have effectively dismissed your daughter even though it was her choice to go.

I would say that not being paid for any particular period of time would be an intolerable situation and she will be justified in leaving. She has been working there for more than two years and presumably more than 16 hours a week so she has employment rights.

The other reason you need to get going is that presumably this company is in trouble and they may pull the plug before you know it and then there will be no action before the employment tribunal or elsewhere.

As a backup action, you can also sue in the County Court – but unfair dismissal damages would be far more interesting.

Hopefully @Emmzzi will be along before too long and will either confirm what I say give you further advice or give you better alternatives.

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If you are going to go the County Court route then given the fact that it has gone to ACAS and you have your certificate, I would say that this is probably a good basis for dispensing with the letter of claim and going straight to MoneyClaim.

I would suggest in that case that you send them an email today saying that you will be issuing the claim on Tuesday if they don't make an immediate payment to you – and provide your bank details.

Once you have issued the claim, then wait for the 14 days to adapt to see if they file defence. C the defence but be prepared to apply for summary judgement immediately.

Look up CPR 24 on the County Court website and you will learn something about summary judgement – which basically means that you argue to the judge that there is no chance of success and that the court should award you judgement without even going to trial.

You are dealing here with a business which appears to be in trouble and you probably need to get your foot in the door – get a judgement at least so that you are a preferred creditor – and then get the judgement transferred up to the sheriffs for High Court enforcement.

 

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It is called "piercing the corporate veil" – and it is pretty difficult to do. You would have to show some real wrongdoing in order to get beyond the limited liability protection.
Look it up on the Internet – by all means include the CEO unless you find a downside. I'm afraid it's in a bit out of my experience.

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Incidentally, an application for summary judgement – CPR 24 – would have to be made by application notice form N244 which I'm afraid will cost you about 250 quid although you will have that sum awarded to you once you get judgement.

Of course the problem is always will be enforcement but I think that speed is of the essence here.
 

As @Emmzzi has pointed out, the IT route is probably going to take a long time.
However, if there is any money outstanding in lieu of notice or holiday pay – I don't see any problem adding that your County Court claim.

 

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There is no need for you to use a solicitor in this case.

I am quite sure that you can start the process off yourself and it seems to me that there is no defence to the facts at all.

The main issue will be a question of trying to press ahead for a good level of compensation

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Now here's a little problem that I'm not certain about.

I'm not sure if you can run parallel cases on basically the same issue – although until somebody stops you I suggest that you go ahead with the caveat that if you can't and you pay some claim fees, it may be that one of the claim fees – either for the IT or for the small claims court will probably not be refundable.

I don't have time to have a look round the Internet at the moment – maybe you could search and see can you bring simultaneous claims for unfair dismissal in the industrial tribunal and also bring a parallel breach of contract case in the County Court.
It may be that you can bring breach of contract case in the County Court and then explained to the IT that you are seeking a reduced settlement for unfair dismissal to take into account the money you have received through the County Court system.
I'm afraid I really don't have the answer to hand.

Maybe @Emmzzi or my site team colleague @Andyorch will have an idea.

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Brilliant. That is an amazing result 

Who are the owners all the senior managers of the company? Maybe it's about time to put their names on in the internet.

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You will have to instruct the sheriff's

What's supposed to real question this whether they wind themselves up before you can get to them

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Once you get the judgement I would suggest that you start sending copies of it to all of their customers that you know of

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HCEO not bailiffs

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