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    • Hi, I've been reading the invaluable advice on this forum and reading about the problems with Evri and lost delivery of items.  From what I gather the initial steps after having exhausted every's own lost item claim process is to draft a Letter of Claim, I think it is called and to register with the government Money Claims.  I have got a login for Money Claims and have made an initial stab at the letter but I'm not certain I have got it right. Am I right to assume that having exhausted Evri customer service's claims process and having received the denial of any compensation because the laptop I was sending is on the non-compensatory list that my next step would be to send the Letter of Claim to them? Let me provide some basic details which I hopefully have addressed in the letter. I purchased a laptop through Amazon.co.uk which a business in Belfast sold refurbished laptops through.  They had a 30 day money back guarantee for a full refund if you have any issues with the laptop.  I have the invoice from Amazon showing the purchase.  On 27 April, 2024 before the end of the 30 day period I used their ParcelShop (inside a Tesco) to send the laptop back and have the tracking reference mentioned in the letter.  As mentioned in the letter there was they advised they could not give me or sell me any insurance because laptops are on the non-compensatory list so I just paid the normal delivery cost.  It was scanned as leaving the ParcelShop on 29 April and the tracking has been like that ever since.  After a 28 working day Evri claim process they gave the expected response that they could not provide any compensation and simply could not proceed with my claim. I was hoping to get some advice on whether I go ahead now and email this to Customer Services straightaway and should I send a hard-copy to the Evri address as well?  Or are there any steps I have missed out on first?  I believe 14 days is the reasonable period of time for them to respond so if I were to send it tomorrow, for example 12 June then I should expect a reply by 26 June, is that correct and fair?  And assuming they don't reply with a full refund then I would then go down the government Money Claims site to proceed with that? Sorry for all the questions, I want to make sure I go about it properly.  I'll continue to read through other cases on here so I can get an even better handle on the process. I attached a LOC, happy for any edits or updates that will make it even better. Thanks so much for anyone's help! Regards, Matt Evri letter of claim.docx
    • The date was 3 June. Get on MCOL now. The legal principle is that, even if you defence is late, if the other party hasn't requested judgement, then your defence takes priority and is accepted. You might be in time. When I say now I mean now.  Recently we had someone who was nine days' late and this was pointed out to them at 5:30pm.  They faffed around till 11pm.  When they went on MCOl they saw that judgement had been entered at 7pm. Every minute is vital. File the below standard defence if you still can - 1.  The Defendant is the recorded keeper of [motor vehicle]. 2.  It is denied that the Defendant entered into a contract with the Claimant. 3.  As held by the Upper Tax Tribunal in Vehicle Control Services Limited v HMRC [2012] UKUT 129 (TCC), any contract requires offer and acceptance.  The Claimant was simply contracted by the landowner to provide car-park management services and is not capable of entering into a contract with the Defendant on its own account, as the car park is owned by and the terms of entry set by the landowner.  Accordingly, it is denied that the Claimant has authority to bring this claim.    4.  In any case it is denied that the Defendant broke the terms of a contract with the Claimant. 5.  The Claimant is attempting double recovery by adding an additional sum not included in the original offer.  6.  The Particulars of Claim is denied in its entirety.  It is denied that the Claimant is entitled to the relief claimed or any relief at all.
    • Hi friends,  I’m a bit worried I may have got confused with timings here. I thought I had 33 days from my acknowledgment to submit a defence but the date added above says 3/6/24.   have I missed the date?   if so how can I apply for an exception due to my disability and problems with deadlines and dates etc (ADHD)?   what should I submit as a defence?   I’ve had no reply from BW so far    just been back on MCOL and it says 28 days from service if I completed an acknowledgment of service so does that mean 28 days from that of acknowledgement (I.e. 16/5) which would make deadline for defence 14/6?   Thanks! Panicking here.
    • Normally we don't advise playing your cards early in a snotty letter, but as you have appealed we might as well use what you wrote in the appeal against them. There is no rush, you have until 6 July to get it to them.  See what the other regulars think too. How about something like this? -   Dear Rachael & Sean, cheers for your Letter of Claim.  I rolled around on the floor in laughter at the idea you'd actually thought I'd take such tripe seriously and would cough up! As usual you'll have been too bone idle to do any due diligence.  Had you done so you would have seen that I appealed to your client.  Indeed the driver on the day is a textbook example of having done exactly what you should do when you do not wish to be bound by the T&Cs in a private car park. Of course none of that mattered to the spivs you represent but do you really want to put such a useless case in front of a judge? To be fair, your clients are very useful members of the human race - as comedians.  How I loved the page turner of their antics at The Citrus Building in Bournemouth.  It was chuckle after chuckle reading about them, letter after letter, month after month, insisting they were legally in the right, even through someone who had done just the first day of a GCSE law course could have told them they weren't.  Until the denouement - BOOM - an absolute hammering in court.  In fact - SLAM, BANG - managing to lose twice against the same motorist for the same car park in front of two different judges. Your client can either drop their foolishness now or get yet another tolchocking* in court where I will go for an unreasonable costs order under CPR 27.14(2)(g) and spend the dosh on a nice summer holiday, while every day laughing at your clients' expense. I look forward to your deafening silence. COPIED TO COUNTRYWIDE PARKING MANAGEMENT LTD   *  This word is used under licence from Brassnecked
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The FSA have said that banks HVE to honor any offers for 2 months - so work out when this is, and wait til a few days before that before you decide to jump ship...it hasn't sunk yet (or at all - we should win the case...its just what a definition of 'Win' is!)

 

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Hi Clubber, have a look here: http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/barclays-bank/107652-oft-test-case-questions-2.html#post1037154

The point in question is point 2.

 

I suppose it is open to certain interpretation as to hat 'recent' is - but I can't see Barclays wanting to open any more kettle of worms - worth a reserach though!

 

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.......(SORRY DAR£IN TO CONTRADICT YOU WHEN YOU SAID " They will NOT honour their offer if you intend to continue! in a nother thread) because they have

Okay Clubber in answer to you comment that has been posted at least ten times throughout this site - This comment was made some time ago when the procedure was running normal, as a standard THEN, if the settlement offer was disputed in any way the banks would NOT honour or renegotiate....This is NOT saying this is the way they go now, Since the ruling The OFT has ordered the banks to honour any settlement offers for a set period..Things have change dramatically in the past couple of weeks as the banks became aware of this new ruling.....So although I would be wrong in using that statement NOW..it was correct at the time...

 

I lose£120 court costs but i am confident of claiming that back from MCOL.

I really hope you and anyone else in the same position is able to get the court fees back from MCOL and local courts i would be very surprised if a refund is made, unless you contact them before 10am the following day after submitting the claim...the fee is partly for running costs of the court.... but saying that these are exceptional circumstance where no-one could have possibly known this would happen [from our side that is].

 

Let us know how you get on.

 

for guidance see here:

If you would like to apply for a refund

 

Please read this guidance, and then apply for exemption or remission on Form EX160. You can also obtain this form from a county court office.

But the court must receive form EX160 within 6 months, starting from the day when you paid the fee and the evidence (see page 5) must have the details which would have allowed the court to accept it on the day when you paid the fee.

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Is it in our interest to actually discontinue the claim? I wouldprefer to keep it there just in case there is another consumer revolt akin to the Poll Tax, one where the FSA ( who is here to protect the consumer :rolleyes: ) may do a U turn. If you keep the claim going, at least you may have a bit of interest accumulating.

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Agreed:

Best be at the top of the small 'as is' pile, than the bottom of a large pile of every consumer in the last 6 years!

dead on ,will keep the interest level higher in case.also and rightly so,those with ongoing claims sorted quicker and easier ,either way case goes.

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I was hoping for a settlement to clear my overdraft situation, which has been caused by these excessive charges and get on with my life, but I will fight to the bitter end and have absolutely no intention of folding now at this stage... we must continue to be positive in our search for justice!

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Dar£n, many thanks for the link to refunding court costs. More importantly I accept totally your explanation about not being able to accept previous offers- you are right, times have changed...my thread was certainly not meant to be a slight on your or your comments and the reason for posting it 10 times (at least!) was\as the result of a response asking for me to do that...all we can do at the moment is share our experiences as, now more than ever, we don't have a lot to work on. the other point here is that none of us know each others situations or lives and although every comment on here is meant as genuine support, one person taking 70-75% and another waiting for a year or more (accruing the 8%) may represent just as sweet a result dependent on their circumstances.

 

I have read all your comments Dar£n and your advice and support is 2nd to none.

 

My case is 8th August. I am going to see\what happens on Monday's and Wednesdays hearings and contact my court to see what the local score is. i will decide based on what I hear whether to discontinue and take the 75% offer or cancel the offer and go to court. What is interesting about my 13 point hearing order is that the judge has put the onus on the bank to evidence the fairness of the charges, if I get time I will post on here.

 

thanks Dar£n, no offence meant...

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I'm thinking the same Saintly, unless the trend from Monday onwards is to indiscrminately stay all cases regardless of B's attendance, the filing of papers etc etc. I have not been able to read an update on recent comments about individual courts making that decision. I am hoping that judge's who made an order after listing cases pre 26 July will want to continue having control over their court. A lot will depend on the Judges interpretation of the guidance they are given. I have to say in my experience of county courts Judges are very precious and give little account of non precedent findings and, hopefully best of all, do not like their time abused as we all know B's have been guilty of.

 

This is such a difficult time... my fingers are crossed for those in court 1st next week. Lets hope Judges who have already made orders have the resolve to see them through and are prepared to throw out defences where there are no shows and where defence bundles are not filed- as they know they should....very interesting!

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Just to confirm things at the Lit Dept.

 

Emailed to ask the question about phoning to settle.

 

Reply received today:

All claimants can continue to contact us if they need to - there’s just very little we can do to help now, as you obviously know, we will not be settling any more claims as we wait for the outcome of the test case. I hope this clarifies things for you.

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It has now been a month since I sent the settlement letter to Paul Quinn just before my court date which I didnt go to as I had received the letter. I havent received the money and Paul does not reply to emails and Dino just tells me there is a backlog so does anyone have any advise on what to do now please?

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Ref ongoing cases, those with court dates in particular.

If my undestanding is correct the judge should rule in the claimants favour if the defendent offers no defence, ie does not submit his paperwork/bundle?

It will be interesting to see what happens, my date is the 22nd, I am submitting my bundle this week as we are then away until the 21st.

I am not going to spend two weeks winding myself up about it, what will be will be, but do we have a valid argument for persuading the judges that by not complying with court orders the defendents should have the defence struck out & so a judgement in our favour.

Fingers crossed, so near but yet so far..................

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I'm in the same position, submitted my bundle before the test case announcement and Barclays didnt submit theirs. Can we write to the judge and ask them to strike out their defence for non compliance and request a judgement before the hearing? Or can we only make this suggestion at the hearing itself?

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you can only request it for the consideration of the judge, thats if you get in first, if the judge has decided prior to stay the case theirs not a fat lot you can do at the moment....we are working on a decent template to work against these stays...keep watching..

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Great to hear you are working on a template! :D

 

Is there a sample letter I can send the judge today to ask him to consider striking out their defence, in the hope of getting in before the stay request?

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Im in exactly the same situation. My court date is 8th August, bundle submitted. Verbal offer to settle on 23rd and again on 25th which I confirmed back to them in an email (verbal agreement made by Mr Quinn and confirmed by Emma Thompson). I fear this means nothing now but I can use email in evidence.

this morning my court have not received any directions to stay cases and their next hearing about bank charge claims is.. wait for it, mine next week so I will not be able to see how judge interprets situation before then..he is currently on leave until the end of the week.

 

Do I go with it and apply for defence to be struck out for £2200 or take the £1495 currently on the table from customer relations? How much is the stress worth? How much would I like the judge to find in my favour?

 

Back to how much I need the money.. its like deal or no bleedin' deal!

 

There are other cases going ahead today, will be interesting to see if blanket stays are being given- anyone had any update on this?

 

So many questions....

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I read in another thread on here,

 

someone was asking for a stickie, so people in court in the coming days, and weeks can post what happens in court.

 

I am sure this is a good idea, and will keep everyone updated on what is happening in courts up and down the country.

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Hmm just spoke to the court manager to check if they had received Barclays Court Bundle, obviously they didn't. They also didn't receive any "stay" requests.

 

When I asked the lady if I could request a judgement based on their failing to file their bundle and failing to follow the direction of the court she became very vague. Said that on the day the judge would consider it, but that it was not usual to request it in advance. She then suggested I get legal representation to gain clarity on the situation.

 

Very helpful.

 

I am double worried as:

1. the OFT/FSA test case issues

and

2. I can't make it to the court hearing date any more due to a personal clash

 

Any advice on how to request the judgement based on Barclays non compliance?

 

Also does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do regarding my not being able to attend the hearing itself?

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