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    • Hi on the notice of disqualification it lists the 2 speed offences and marks offence withdrawn? This is for both offences and then the other 2 is the MS90s which I’m fined for and the additional costs. R
    • Hi,    It has taken a while, but I have received an email from Auxillis -  hello, we are not dealing with this claim all we do is log accident for you isnurance - the claim has been passed to your underwriter markerstudy 0344 873 8183 as they are deal with fault cliams ion behalf of adrian flux. thankyou auxillis   I have made repeated attempts to phone Markerstudy in between working from home, struggling for energy and trying to find a cheap car so that I can keep my job (community support worker). Thankfully I have a supportive team and I am being given phone calls to make but it cant last too long. I had a severe migraine over the weekend and also have quite bad whiplash in my neck and back.    I found this in my insurance policy booklet -    Protection and Recovery If the insured vehicle cannot be driven following an incident leading to a valid claim under this section, we will pay: • the cost of its protection and removal to the nearest approved repairer, competent repairer or nearest place of safety; and • the cost of re-delivery after repairs to your home address; and • the cost of storage of the insured vehicle incurred with our written consent. If the insured vehicle is damaged beyond economical repair we will arrange for it to be stored safely at premises of our choosing. You should remove your personal belongings from the insured vehicle before it is collected from you. In the event of a claim being made under the policy we have the right to remove the insured vehicle to an alternative repairer, place of safety or make our own arrangments for re-delivery at any time in order to keep the cost of the claim to a minimum     I do about 20-25000 miles a year with the work I do, I have been getting quotes and putting that I have now have one accident and no no claims bonus and the cheap quotes from similar companies to markerstudy are more than double what i paid last year at 8-900 and aviva is offering 2600 which is simply out of my price range and more than the car i am looking at.  I am starting to wonder if it is even worth going ahead with the claim as i have no one to claim from. I have had no information from any of the enquiries I have made.  I have a full tank of vpower diesel in the car in the impound, i can strip it for parts and probably make what I will be offered by the insurance payout and get the money quicker.  As I have made contact and started the process can I back out, still keep my NCB and a claim free history? Also what happens with my injuries? I don't think there is any permanent damage but my dr refused to see me and just gave me a boat load of naproxen and codeine. What happens in the future if things don't get better and I cancelled this claim? Can you claim injuries off your own insurance because the other guy ran and you cant find him? I have tried to ask these questions off markerstudy but they keep me waiting for nearly an hour then end the call.     
    • Thanks for the response. Am I able to send you the documents I’ve received or can you message via instant message and I’ll send these? Reece
    • Regretfully it does. Have you actually seen any papers which show what you were charged with (rather than what you were convicted of)? It is unusual not to be “dual charged” but if you were not charged with both, you are where you are. If you had been charged with both offences and providing you were the driver at the time, you could, after performing your SD, have asked the prosecutor to drop the “Fail to Provide” (FtP) charges in exchange for a guilty plea to the speeding charges (you cannot be convicted of speeding unless you plead guilty as they have no evidence you were driving). You will have difficulty defending the FtP charges. In fact, it’s worse than that – you have no chance of successfully defending them at all because the reason you did not respond to the requests is because you did not receive them and that’s entirely your fault. No it’s not correct. Six months from 18/11/23 was 18/5/24 so, unless they were originally charged, the speeding offences are now “timed out.” There is one avenue left open to you. If you perform your SD you must serve it on the court which convicted you. You will then receive a date for a hearing to have the matters heard again. Your only chance of having the matters revert to speeding (and this is only providing you were the driver at the time of those offences) is to plead Not Guilty, attend court. When you get there you can ask the prosecutor (very nicely, explaining what a pillock you know you were for failing to update your  V5C) if (s)he is prepared to raise “out of time” speeding charges, to which you will offer to plead guilty if the FtP charges are dropped.   This is strictly speaking not lawful. Charges have to be raised within six months. Some prosecutors are willing to do it, others are not. But frankly it’s the only avenue open to you. There is a risk with this. I imagine you have been fined £660 (plus surcharge and costs) for each offence. The offence attracts a fine of 1.5 week’s net income and where the court has no information about the defendant’s means a default figure of £440pw is used.  If the prosecutor is not prepared to play ball you can revise your pleas to guilty. A sympathetic court should give you the full discount (one third) for your guilty pleas in these circumstances but they may reduce the discount somewhat. The prosecution may also ask for increased costs (£90 or thereabouts is the figure for a guilty plea). So it may cost you more if you have a decent income (I’ll let you do the sums). But MS90 is an endorsement code which gives insurers a fit of the vapours. One such endorsement will see your premiums double. Two of them will see many insurers refuse to quote you at all meaning you will have to approach "specialist" (aka extortionate) brokers. So you really want to exhaust every possibility of avoiding MS90s if you can. One warning: do not pay solicitors silly money to defend you. Making an SD before a solicitor should attract just a nominal sum (perhaps a tenner). That’s all you should pay for. You have no viable defence against the FtP charges and any solicitor suggesting you have is telling you porkies. The offer to do the deal is easily done by yourself and you can save the solicitor’s fees to put towards a few taxis and increased insurance premiums if you are unsuccessful. In the happy event you find out you were "dual charged", let me know and I'll tell you how to proceed. (Seems a bit odd hoping you were charged with four driving offences rather than two, but it's a funny old world!).    
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I am in the process of requesting CCA's and would like to get my credit report to compare the report to the replies i am gonna get from my creditors. however, the creditors dont always use the same agency to get their information from and supply default information to. (please correct me if this statement is wrong) Which credit reference agency should i get my report from and is the £13 report that these companies do over the net the best report to get? thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

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i would get both to be honest.

 

you can obtain report via post for a statutory fee of £2

 

i know experian has a service called credit expert which gives a month's free trial (you have to register a card, be sure to cancel it within the month if you wish not to pay)

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There's honestly no point paying more than the £2 statutory fee - you still get an explanatory leaflet and we're more than happy to answer any queries here.

 

Don't fall for the CRAs marketing tricks.

  • Barclays: WON!!! It took four months but was totally worth it!
  • Cabot: I'm still waiting for an enforcable agreement, more than a year after requesting it. Go on, Uncle Ken, take me to court if you dare. You know you want to!
  • Elephant.co.uk: VICTORY - they admitted there was no debt!
  • Ashbourne Management (gym membership): Finally got my default removed and out-of-court settlement; I'm not finished with them yet!

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Good boy :p

 

Seriously, if there's anything you don't understand in your report, just ask :)

  • Barclays: WON!!! It took four months but was totally worth it!
  • Cabot: I'm still waiting for an enforcable agreement, more than a year after requesting it. Go on, Uncle Ken, take me to court if you dare. You know you want to!
  • Elephant.co.uk: VICTORY - they admitted there was no debt!
  • Ashbourne Management (gym membership): Finally got my default removed and out-of-court settlement; I'm not finished with them yet!

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thank you. in process of requesting them now. have also sent CCA requests for original documents. i'm bouncing off walls and wanting to be able to do more NOW but i have realised i have to be patient and wait for all the information to be sent back to me or the 14 days period to have elapsed. if however there is anything i can do in the meantime then please advise me.

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  • 2 weeks later...

My son has tried to get his credit report from both Equifax and Experian.

 

Experian - filled in the form and got as far as trying to confirm address when told that couldn't go any further, please call a number. Called the number and told them that he didn't want to continue the service beyond the 30 days so please cancel his card. Haven't had the free report from them yet (6 days so far).

 

Equifax - started filling in form but couldn't progress as site kept insisting that his surname wasn't "valid". We have a two word surname without a hyphen which seems perfectly OK on birth certificate, electoral roll, passport, building society account, etc.

 

A bit of a Catch 22 as he can't register to request a report and both phone help and email require you to register - looks like snail mail is the only route!!

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hi guys,

 

i would suggest using checkmyfile - Credit reference, Credit file, Credit score, Rating

they allow you to view and monitor your credit report from all 3 CRA's Experian, Equifax and Callcredit. price isn't bad, £5 a month.

 

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I use them too. It gets updated once a month. You can compare all three reports and see which companies use which reference agencies.

Abbey - *SETTLED IN FULL!* ;)

-£445 refunded after one phonecall

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Next - Trying to Sue us with no agreement! :lol:

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actually, i have had to put in a complaint in about the three report thing, been paying the 5 quid a month, yet only get reports from experian and call credit, equifax are wanting my signature (?) dont know why,(do they own any dca's), this is the only reason a can think of for them wanting my signature. emails to and fro, to check my file, basically saing i want what i am paying for, them saying it is their right to ask, me saying, i dont think so.......been going on since july.

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actually, i have had to put in a complaint in about the three report thing, been paying the 5 quid a month, yet only get reports from experian and call credit, equifax are wanting my signature (?) dont know why,(do they own any dca's), this is the only reason a can think of for them wanting my signature. emails to and fro, to check my file, basically saing i want what i am paying for, them saying it is their right to ask, me saying, i dont think so.......been going on since july.

 

 

thats strange! When i applied for my account i got access to all my reports within a few mins!

 

With regards to some cra's holding some info and others not, thats precisely the reason i chose to use checkmyfile as they allow you access to all three reports, means you see absolutely everything on your reports, no nasty surprises to come!

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Credit File Says I Must Supply Signature And Verification Of Last Address(cannot Coz Lived Homeless At Friends House,for 2 Months, Prior To This Was In Womans' Refuge) For Equifax . Then I'll Be Able To Access My File.......so I'm Thinking Of SAR To Equifax , Credit File Know Who I Am, As They Are Getting Paid Monthly From My Own Bank, Therefore I Cannot See A Problem.

But Like I Said, Some Credit Ref Agencies Do Own Dcas...........

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Can anyone give any information on checkmyfile.com? I mean, if i buy reports from them, will i see all the 3 agencies report seperately or do they just combine them all and give me the results?

 

I already have obtained my equifax and experian credit reports on 30 day trials. However, i am looking to repair my credit scores and will need to check my reports frequently during the next 3 months or so and dont want to pay £66 for that to equifax which they will charge after the 30 days. And experian only charges £6.95 something.

 

Can anyone please tell me whether chekmyfile report is good or not and most important thing is that, do they show the reports individualy? Like lets say; Report 1: Experian, Report 2: Equifac, Report 3: Callcredit

Or is it like: Report Combined from 3 agencies: Checkmyfile

 

Thank you all for the answers.

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If you're unsure which credit report to get, then look at this link:

 

http://www.thecreditagency.co.uk/Lenders_Use_Credit_Refere nce_Agency.html

 

It shows a table which details the credit reference agencies (CRA's) that credit card companies, banks, lenders etc. are using..... best to pick the CRA's where your credit data has been filed...... or, if you're applying for credit, then get a credit report from the CRA('s) where the lender gets their data from.

 

Also, Rather than paying the £2, you could get your Experian & Equifax credit reports for free. You simply need to register for their credit monitoring service (£60 for Experian Credit Expert or £69.99 for Equifax Credit Watch Gold), and then cancel the service within 30 days (it won't cost you a penny then). Both services are available here:

 

Free Credit Report Online Reference Agency: The Credit Agency UK

 

I know that for the Equifax service they simply verify your card for payment at the point of ordering and wouldn't charge it till the 30 days is up (if you haven't cancelled by then)..... it means you'd get the added benefit of their credit monitoring for a period then + of course your credit report is available online (Statutory credit reports can often take weeks to come through).

 

I know the Checkmyfile report seems good, but it doesn't seem to have full information from Experian included....... not entirely sure what's missing (it says only public credit report data is provided).... Maybe some checkmyfile users could shed some light on this for us? Also, it's not in 3 seperately identifiable reports (Experian, Equifax, Callcredit) it's all in their own format.

 

I guess it all depends on what it is you're looking for from a credit report really as to whether or not that's the best option over the seperate Experian, Equifax & Callcredit ones?

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