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    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
    • You don't appeal to anyone. You haven't' received a demand from a statutory body like the council, the police or the courts. It's just a dodgy cowboy company trying it on. You simply don't pay.  In the vast majority of these cases the company deforest the Amazon with threats about how they are going to divert a drone from Ukraine and make it land on your home - but in the end they do nothing.
    • honestly you sound like you work the claimant yes affixed dont appeal to anyone no cant be “argued either way”  
    • Because of the tsunami of cases we are having for this scam site, over the weekend I had a look at MET cases we have here stretching back to June 2014.  Yes, ten years. MET have not once had the guts to put a case in front of a judge. In about 5% of cases they have issued court papers in the hope that the motorist will be terrified of going to court and will give in.  However, when the motorist defended, it was MET who bottled it.  Every time.
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      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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eBay parcel worth £265, booked via Parcel 2 Go, 'lost' by Evri


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Afternoon all

1. I sold a second-hand set of 8 golf clubs on eBay on 17.3.24 for £250 plus £15 for delivery (a total of £265) to a buyer in Cardiff.

2. I bought Evri ParcelShop Next Day delivery via Parcel 2 Go for £9.10 online. I declared the parcel as second-hand golf clubs and their value at £265. I did not purchase any additional ‘insurance’.

3. I carefully packed the clubs, and, as requested by Evri included in the package a note providing the buyer's address, and delivered them to my local Evri ParcelShop, from where Evri tracking shows they were collected the next day (18.3.24) before being sorted at the local depot. 

4. On 19.3.24 the Evri tracking stated "We’ve not been able to deliver today due to a road incident. We’ll update tracking as soon as your parcel is out for delivery” and that's where their journey apparently ended.

5. After daily interactions with the Evri Chatbot, and some emails from their Customer Services Dept the parcel did not move and was initially declared as 'misplaced' before a telephone call from Evri Customer Services on 27.3.24 advised they could not find the parcel, which I should therefore assume had been lost. I asked about a refund and was told I should take it up with Parcel 2 Go.  

6. I opened a claim with P2G that same day and provided copies of all relevant documents. They said they would liaise with Evri. I also refunded the buyer in full (£265).

7. On 3.4.24 P2G emailed to say they were they were “happy to inform you that we've made an offer against your claim regarding the following order: P2G123005161. We'll refund the cost of delivery on top of your claim settlement.” Their offer was for £20 plus the delivery cost of £9.10 so a total of £29.10. I clicked on the 'Reject Offer' box and when it I was asked why, I typed in ‘£265 + £9.10 = £274.10'    

8. That same day they emailed me advising they were sorry their offer ‘did not meet with (my) expectations’ and that they’d review the case and get back to me shortly. 

9. On 8.4.24 P2G email me back to say “After reviewing your case and careful consideration, we believe that we have offered a fair settlement and have decided not to increase our offer.” 

10. I've spent a few days reading lots of posts and cases on this site, and intend to pursue this case and (hopefully) get my £274.10 back. I understand the first stage should be a Letter Before Action, and my first question is should this be sent to Parcel 2 Go, who sold me the 'service' or Evri, who lost the parcel?

Many thanks in anticipation - G59

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Your claim is against P2G.  You contracted directly with them and it will make life a little bit more complicated to sue EVRi – although you could do but we may as well keep it simple.

Please start doing a lot of reading of the stories on this sub- forum. It doesn't matter which company they involve – the important thing is to understand the principles.

When I say do a "lot of reading" – I mean lots and lots. It's pretty straightforward but it is important that you understand the principles so that you are confident going forward.

We will be helping you all the way but we would like to feel that you are properly invested. Do the reading. I reckon between two days and three days worth.

Bear in mind that the principal reason for their refusal to reimburse you will probably be the fact that you didn't buy insurance. Ensure that you pay attention to what we have to say about parcel delivery insurance and in particular section 57 and also section 72 of the consumer rights act 2015.

When you think that you are in charge of all the detail, start drafting a letter of claim and post a draft here so that we can have a look.

Although it will be reasonably straightforward – don't expect it to be quick. These people drag it out simply to raise obstacles in order to discourage others. At the end of the day they will pay out or if it goes to trial you will win.

You should understand that they will exploit a publicly-funded scarce resourced overworked County Court system in order to frustrate legitimate claims.
Even with a payout to you, they will probably set the money off against tax.

Get going – to the reading – and post your letter of claim here

 

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Perfect. Nice and brief and to the point. You don't bother to start telling your life story.

Just the way it should be.

Send it off. You have probably done enough reading to understand that it won't make any difference don't start drafting your particulars of claim. Open an account with the MoneyClaim County Court system and start preparing.

Post your particulars of claim here before you click it off.

You may have noticed that at some point you will be asked if you want to go to mediation on this. We used to advise it but now we recommend that you decline mediation and go to trial.

Your chances of success are much better than 95%. Going to trial will incur an additional hearing fee but of course you will get that back.

However if you go to mediation, they will simply try to penny pinch and to get you to compromise and also they will sign you up to a confidentiality agreement and probably threaten you if you breach it.

Not only that, if the mediation fails because you stand your ground, it will add additional delay while they then give you a date to go to trial.

The best thing to do is to decline mediation – prepare for court hearing. Pay the extra fee. The chances are that rather than get a judgement against them they will then offer you a full settlement rather than go to court.
If they do offer you full settlement then you will be obliged to accept it – but that's what you want. If they don't offer you full settlement then you will go to trial and there will be a judgement against them.
Just so that you understand, our first interest is that you get your money back – but a close second is that it does go to trial and there is a judgement which we will then be able to use to help other people.

Anyway as you should realise, we will help you all the way.

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Thanks very much Bank. I have topped and tailed my LOC and printed off a copy which I shall post tomorrow by First Class post at my local post office and also obtain a proof of postage. I'll also email them a copy.

I've opened a MoneyClaim account, and shall now begin work on my draft Particulars of Claim which I shall post here for your thoughts.

And I shan't be using the Moderation service.

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Just now, jk2054 said:

You may find you have to do mediation

I'd like to know why you have to do mediation please

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1 minute ago, BankFodder said:

I'd like to know why you have to do mediation please

https://insidehmcts.blog.gov.uk/2024/04/11/preparing-for-the-requirement-to-mediate-in-small-claims-what-you-need-to-know/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=

 

Please see the above HMCTS Blog post

 

It's also here: https://twitter.com/HMCTSgovuk/status/1778399119435862264

 

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Yes, but not yet. It only applies to cases which have been filed about the 20th or so of May.

 

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Yep thats why I said may find, I couldn't remember what day it came into force just that it was in may.

 

Although it does seem that if you raise the claim on the new system (OCMC) you don't need to go to mediation, so this may be the way forward for the group, if we want to aviod mediation, since I see it is only for the legacy MCOL and paper claims and not OCMC claims yet.

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We will have to see whether they ask you if you are prepared to compromise and also if you are prepared to keep the result secret.
If they ask these questions then we will certainly advise people to say – No – and – No.

There should be absolutely no compromise at all with any of the parcel delivery companies and there should be no reason for secrecy

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That's true actually, I wonder what will happen if people dont say yes to their 3 questions because that would mean its nto suitable.

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An interesting moderation debate chaps!

But something very strange has happened with my claim today.

Shortly after I posted the Letter of Claim to P2G I received a text message from them - "Your parcel (P2G-123005161) was delivered at 12.55 to CF5 *** (original buyer's post code) with Evri Drop-off

I messaged the buyer (who I refunded in full (£265) for the original non-delivery on 27 March) and asked if it had indeed turned up. He confirmed it had been delivered and taken in by his wife, with a photo taken to confirm delivery. But the box I'd so carefully packed the clubs in was, of course, empty, except for the original packing material I'd used, and the buyer's details which I'd also included in the box. I'd used getting on for half a roll of heavy duty black ducktape to seal the box, especially at both ends, and the buyer advised one end had been cut/torn open (likely when the 8 golf clubs were extracted) and then loosely resealed. 

Needless to say, no explanation for the 1 month delay in delivery, and Parcel2Go have emailed me this evening to advise they've decided not to approve my claim as 'The parcel started to track'.

Grateful for your thoughts on this significant new development. I presume the onus is now upon me to prove the parcel was empty upon delivery - how would you suggest I tackle that? And should I draft and submit a new Letter of Claim to P2G, resetting the 14 day clock?   

Many thanks

G59 

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No change in advice. Get the purchaser to take lots of photographs and if possible send you back the empty box – you will have to pay for that I suppose but you will get it back from EVRi.

You may want to send a slight amendment to your letter of claim – but the date stays the same.

Get a move on so you can get the claim filed well in advance of the compulsory mediation date which quite frankly will only get in your way especially as it is new and nobody really understands the rules yet

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Hi

As with BF I don't agree you need to change the date on your LOC.

Secondly, i see you say onus on you to prove, this isn't true. You will need to show on the balance of probabilites. I would start by getting written confirmation from the buyer of the matter. This along with the month delay I would expect will be the burden that the court need.

Also I would say you could add tort here although BF will likely advise on this

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Dear David Jeremia Schnur 

reference number XXX

Thanks for your email.

I set out my position quite clearly in my letter of claim and nothing's changed.

Your insurance requirement is unlawful and is contrary to section 57 of the consumer rights act and also section 72 of the same statute.

My deadline for action still stands.

I expect you can hear it ticking….Tick-tock tick-tock

Signed

 

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Have you started preparing your claim yet? I expect that you can hear the deadline getting closer as well

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Yup – why not. It can't hurt

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I'm not sure including employees middle names is appropriate

 

You should be addressing people as they sign off

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I don't think it matters but whatever makes you feel comfortable. However I do think that you need to show that you are occupying the high ground and that you won't be controlled

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