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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: abuttyout on May 19, 2026, 06:09:41 pm
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As in Reply #13 above, you file your own DQ when you are asked to do so by the court, either by receiving a letter or by monitoring MCOL to see when it’s been sent to you. You file online through MCOL.
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Got the DQ sent to me on the 9/7/26 and also DC filed by claiment same date.
Will the next step on the claim history be off the court asking me for my N180 or do i have to do this off my own back?
Thanks
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Thanks for the clear and swift reply, appreciate it.
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Keep an eye on MCOL, and you should in due course receive a N180 from the claimant, but this isn’t really important, what is:
Check your MCOL history and when you see it updated to show that your N180 DQ has been sent, you can complete these instructions:
Having received your own N180 (make sure it is not simply a copy of the claimants N180), do not use the paper form. Ignore all the other forms that came with it. you can discard those. Download your own here and fill it in on your computer. You sign it by simply typing your full name in the signature box.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673341e779e9143625613543/N180_1124.pdf
Here are the answers to some of the less obvious questions:
• The name of the court is "Civil National Business Centre".
• To be completed by "Your full name" and you are the "Defendant".
• C1: "YES"
• D1: "NO". Reason: "I wish to question the Claimant about their evidence at a hearing in person and to expose omissions and any misleading or incorrect evidence or assertions.
Given the Claimant is a firm who complete cut & paste parking case paperwork for a living, having this case heard solely on papers would appear to put the Claimant at an unfair advantage, especially as they would no doubt prefer the Defendant not to have the opportunity to expose the issues in the Claimants template submissions or speak as the only true witness to events in question.."
• F1: Whichever is your nearest county court. Use this to find it: https://www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk/search-option
• F3: "1".
• Sign the form by simply typing your full name for the signature.
When you have completed the form, attach it to a single email addressed to both dq.cnbc@justice.gov.uk and info@dcblegal.co.uk and CC in yourself. Make sure that the claim number is in the subject field of the email.
Search the forum for
N180
and
mediation
because the latter will follow the former in due course.
Of course you can and should prepare your own N180 now, just don’t send it until you’re asked for it.
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On MCOL says defence received on 05/06/26 . Am i waiting for something back off them or is the ball in my court now ?
Thanks
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Issue date was 6th May.
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AOS submitted , so defense must be submitted on MCOL by 8th June?
If you say so.
14+5+14 days from the date on the N1SDT form, which I don’t see above, apologies if I missed it, by 4pm and if this is a weekend then by the following working day.
If you want verification, please show us the N1SDT form or point me at it if I’ve overlooked it.
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AOS submitted , so defense must be submitted on MCOL by 8th June?
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So does it still comply with POFA then ?
And yes sorry meant so say pub.
My comment makes no difference, it does not comply with PoFA, no.
I was puzzled because I didn’t think Smart had anything to do with Manchester Airport, but that explains it.
There was a time I’d wait in the empty pub car park before going to collect someone from the airport, but now they’re all mendacious predators, although in fact nobody needs to pay anything to APCOA at the airport itself.
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So does it still comply with POFA then ?
And yes sorry meant so say pub.
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I was initially confused when you said Manchester Airport, but it’s the pub along the road isn’t it?
There are different rules applicable to airport land covered by byelaws, but these aren’t applicable here.
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Dated 10/9/2022
Issued 26/9/2022
Does not comply with PoFA 2012 to transfer liability from the driver to the registered keeper, because it was not issued to be delivered within 14 days.
If the driver has not been identified, the registered keeper is not liable, and this point should be the main point of any defence.
DCB Legal will likely discontinue in the face of a properly defended claim, but will make you jump through a few hoops before they do.
You will get advice here.
See https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/9/schedule/4
9(1)A notice which is to be relied on as a notice to keeper for the purposes of paragraph 6(1)(b) is given in accordance with this paragraph if the following requirements are met.
(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;
(b)inform the keeper that the driver is required to pay parking charges in respect of the specified period of parking and that the parking charges have not been paid in full;
(c)describe the parking charges due from the driver as at the end of that period, the circumstances in which the requirement to pay them arose (including the means by which the requirement was brought to the attention of drivers) and the other facts that made them payable;
(d)specify the total amount of those parking charges that are unpaid, as at a time which is—
(i)specified in the notice; and
(ii)no later than the end of the day before the day on which the notice is either sent by post or, as the case may be, handed to or left at a current address for service for the keeper (see sub-paragraph (4));
(e)state that the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver and invite the keeper—
(i)to pay the unpaid parking charges; or
(ii)if the keeper was not the driver of the vehicle, to notify the creditor of the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver and to pass the notice on to the driver;
(f)warn the keeper that if, after the period of 28 days beginning with the day after that on which the notice is given—
(i)the amount of the unpaid parking charges specified under paragraph (d) has not been paid in full, and
(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;
(g)inform the keeper of any discount offered for prompt payment and the arrangements for the resolution of disputes or complaints that are available;
(h)identify the creditor and specify how and to whom payment or notification to the creditor may be made;
(i)specify the date on which the notice is sent (where it is sent by post) or given (in any other case).
(3)The notice must relate only to a single period of parking specified under sub-paragraph (2)(a) (but this does not prevent the giving of separate notices which each specify different parts of a single period of parking).
(4)The notice must be given by—
(a)handing it to the keeper, or leaving it at a current address for service for the keeper, within the relevant period; or
(b)sending it by post to a current address for service for the keeper so that it is delivered to that address within the relevant period.
(5)The relevant period for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4) is the period of 14 days beginning with the day after that on which the specified period of parking ended.
(6)A notice sent by post is to be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to have been delivered (and so “given” for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4)) on the second working day after the day on which it is posted; and for this purpose “working day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday in England and Wales.
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Hi
https://ibb.co/gMyBXqvz
Resolution much better now.
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Please read https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/, don’t obscure dates as it requests, and see if you can improve the resolution of the image because I’m not sure it’s readable. If you want good advice. Sorry, but you’ve got to help us to help you.
The original PCN from Smart may not be compliant with PoFA 2012 to transfer liability from the driver to the registered keeper, if the driver has not been identified, but it’s illegible with dates obscured so it’s not possible to know.
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Original letter here :
https://postimg.cc/9znqc9m5
The form is a N1SDT from northhampton.
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https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/
Post documents as advised above. Especially the original parking charge notice.
If you have a N1SDT county court claim, you have 14+5 days from its date to file a defence, or you file an Acknowledgment of Service and get an extra 14 days to file a defence.
26 May or 8 June.
If you have something from DCBL, give it to your hamster.
If you have something from DCB Legal, please show it to us.
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Hi all
The registered keeper has received a claim form from DCBL for a parking charge at Manchester airport from a few years back.
The issue date is 06 May 2026, so from what little they understand of these claims I guess they have until tomorrow to reply either online via the moneyclaim.gov website.
Parking contravention is 10/09/2022 for insufficient pad time. Fully want to defend as the pub make people queue up on the car park ( before actually parking ) and make you wait 20-30 mins before finding you a space.
All original paperwork and letters sent have been kept, dont have the receipt for paying though as paid cash.
Thanks in advance for any help and guidance.