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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: Senorb on April 28, 2025, 06:33:37 pm
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Essentially, the address needs to be one at which your friend can receive post (whether the creditor actually bothers to send anything to Sri Lanka is largely irrelevant). So, if the address you have is one which is specific enough that post will reach them, perfect. If not, then as b789 says, you should seek to get an apartment number from them.
If they are resident in Sri Lanka then the parking company will not be able to get any money from them, if that is why your friend is reluctant to provide you information.
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Let's get this straight... you DO NOT make any contact with DCBL. DCBL are simply powerless debt collectors. Never, EVER communicate with a useless debt collector. I didn't know that I hadn't made that clear in my previous post.
If you are referring to their sister company DCB Legal, that is a different matter. However, you only need to respond to DCB Legal if they ever issue a Letter of Claim (LoC), otherwise you can ignore them too.
All you have to do to transfer liability to the driver is explained on the front of the NtK you received:
(https://i.imgur.com/upWHZy2.png)
So, you follow the instructions and you provide the name and the address of your friend in Sri Lanka. If you don't know the house number, then you text or email your friend and ask them to provide it. Even if they don't, you can just give them the address that you do have.
By doing that, you are then legally sound and nothing can happen to you as the Keeper, even though the NtK is not PoFA compliant anyway.
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First of all, you can safely ignore the useless debt recovery letters. They are powerless to do anything. Al they can do is try and scare the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear. Ignore those.
How come you do not know your friend's address in Sri Lanka? How did you insure your friend on your car?
You can transfer liability from yourself, the Keeper, to the driver at any point up a claim being issued. All you have to do to absolve yourself of liability is to provide their name and a valid address. The address does not have to be in this country. As it isn't, there is nothing else they can do about it except to make empty threats against you.
For example, your friend could reside at: No. 45, Galle Road, Dehiwala, Colombo 10350, Sri Lanka. You would have provided a valid address for the driver and therefore complied with all the requirements of PoFA.
For now, you may want to show us the original Parking Charge Notice (PCN), whether it was issued as a windscreen Notice to Driver (NtD) or a postal Notice to Keeper (NtK).
READ THIS FIRST - Private Parking Charges Forum guide (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/)
Hi, shall I inform dcbl of my friends approx address via email?
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I know of the apartment he is in, but not the exact door number unfortunately
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To report my friends Sri Lanka address, should I do this via email to them?
2 hours ago you said you didn't know this address, and could not reach him...?
If you follow our advice, there is no risk of a CCJ affecting your credit record. The vast majority of DCB Legal led cases result in a discontinuation. But, even if the worst happened and you were to lose in court, as long as you paid up promptly there would be no CCJ on your record.
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To report my friends Sri Lanka address, should I do this via email to them?
Also please, at what point should I pay them? As I cannot afford to take a ccj
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Please see attached
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Please repost leaving ALL dates and times visible.
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Please see original ticket, thank you
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The ideal solution, as above, would be to get hold of an accurate address for your friend.
Although if you cannot (as seems to be the case), then there will still be other options for you to fight this.
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First of all, you can safely ignore the useless debt recovery letters. They are powerless to do anything. Al they can do is try and scare the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear. Ignore those.
How come you do not know your friend's address in Sri Lanka? How did you insure your friend on your car?
You can transfer liability from yourself, the Keeper, to the driver at any point up a claim being issued. All you have to do to absolve yourself of liability is to provide their name and a valid address. The address does not have to be in this country. As it isn't, there is nothing else they can do about it except to make empty threats against you.
For example, your friend could reside at: No. 45, Galle Road, Dehiwala, Colombo 10350, Sri Lanka. You would have provided a valid address for the driver and therefore complied with all the requirements of PoFA.
For now, you may want to show us the original Parking Charge Notice (PCN), whether it was issued as a windscreen Notice to Driver (NtD) or a postal Notice to Keeper (NtK).
READ THIS FIRST - Private Parking Charges Forum guide (https://www.ftla.uk/private-parking-tickets/read-this-first-private-parking-charges-forum-guide/)
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Hi am new here, please excuse me for any mistakes as I'm not used to these forums etc, Please help, my friend who is from Sri Lanka was driving my car when he got this ticket, he is now in Sri Lanka and I cannot reach him, I do not know his address, please see details of letter
Please note I believe I received a PCN and notice of debt recovery letter before this which I ignored, from advice on Reddit
You have failed to pay or respond to our previous letters. You have an unpaid parking charge and Direct Collection Bailiffs Ltd (DCBL) have been instructed to collect the outstanding balance on behalf of our Client. As the balance is still outstanding, we have now referred the matter to our Client to review commencing legal action.
If a claim is issued against you, further fees and costs may be incurred and these will be added to the balance that you owe. Thereafter, non-payment of the claim amount may result in County Court action being taken, where, if you are unsuccessful, a County Court Judgment could be entered against you. This may result in further enforcement being taken against you to recover the debt. In some instances, a County Court Judgment may affect future lending.
At this point, you are no longer able to appeal the parking charge. Your next opportunity to dispute the charge would be if the matter was taken to Court.
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