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Live cases legal advice => Private parking tickets => Topic started by: Imran on September 13, 2025, 10:47:30 pm

Title: Re: Britannia parking PCN
Post by: b789 on September 21, 2025, 01:12:02 pm
Luckily for you, the claim has been defended and they will discontinue just before they are required to pay the £27 trial fee. Have you received your N180 Directions Questionnaire form yet? If you have, have you had the mediation telephone call yet?

There is another problem with their claim form. It has been signed by Sarah Ensall who is probably not an authorised person to conduct litigation.

Send the following email to info@dcblegal.co.uk and CC yourself:

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Subject: Claim M6KF3H23 – Confirmation of Ms Sarah Ensall’s authorisation and status

Dear Ms Horton-Grainger,

Re: Britannia Parking Group Ltd v [Defendant] – Claim No. M6KF3H23 – N1SDT issued on 28 May 2025

I write to clarify the status of the individual who signed the statement of truth on the N1SDT claim form in this matter.
Please confirm, as at the date the N1SDT was signed and issued:

• Whether Ms Sarah Ensall was personally authorised to conduct litigation (e.g. practising solicitor with SRA number, CILEX practitioner with litigation rights, or other basis of authorisation).
• The capacity in which she acted for DCB Legal (employee, consultant, or secondee) and the dates of that engagement.
• That she was authorised by DCB Legal to sign the statement of truth on the claim form/particulars of claim for this case.
• If she was not personally authorised, who the supervising authorised lawyer was for this file (name and position).

This request is made for court costs purposes. I would be grateful for your reply by 7 days from today so I can meet the court timetable.

Yours faithfully,

[Full name]
Defendant
[Postal address]
[Email]

Please show us the response you receive.
Title: Re: Britannia parking PCN
Post by: Imran on September 20, 2025, 10:14:43 pm
So does that mean I shouldn’t have responded to Britannia or DCB Legal at all? Should I have waited until the Notice to Keeper arrived and then asked for advice at that stage instead?

As for the court claim, DCB Legal is acting on behalf of Britannia.
I’ve attached a copy of the claim form along with the defence I submitted.

https://imgur.com/a/1aqAcn2

https://imgur.com/a/baO78dQ
Title: Re: Britannia parking PCN
Post by: b789 on September 14, 2025, 10:35:14 am
You are coming here very late in the process. Everything you have done so far is mostly wrong.

You should never identify the driver, You received the Notice to Keeper INtK) and they can only transfer liability from the unknown driver to the known Keeper if they have fully complied 100% with PoFA 2012, which most unregulated private parking firms do not.

Never, EVER try and communicate with a useless debt recovery agent. You can safely ignore all debt collectors as they are powerless except top try and persuade the low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree into paying out of ignorance and fear.

Contacting anyone by phone is not worth the paper it is not written on. ALL communication should be by email and if you must revert to snail mail, then you MUST get a free proof of posting certificate from any post office.

However, you are where you are.

As for your county court claim, can you please confirm that Britannia are represented by DCB Legal. We need to see the Particulars of Claim (PoC) that were on the N1SDT Claim Form and the content of your defence.

The telephone mediation is not part of the judicial process and no judge is involved. The mediation is not legally trained and all you MUST do is offer £0. The claimant has a copy of your defence and you are happy for it to go to trial. The call is without prejudice and has no bearing on anything going forwards.

If Britannia are represented by DCB Legal, I can guarantee with greater than 99% certainty that they will discontinue before they have to pay the £27 trial fee, as long as you pleaded a defence.
Title: Britannia parking PCN
Post by: Imran on September 13, 2025, 10:47:30 pm
Good Evening,

In September 2024, I parked my vehicle in a private car park by Canvey Island seafront. At the time, the payment machine was not working and no payment was possible neither with coins nor contactless. I was unable to pay the parking fee which would have been around £1–£2. As I was a blue badge holder, I displayed my valid Blue Badge on the dashboard.

A few weeks later, I received a PCN by post. I appealed immediately, explaining the situation and requesting cancellation of the charge.  I received a response letter requesting copy of my blue badge that I sent on the same day. Later received an outcome and my appeal was rejected. I have since contacted Britannia and DCBL by phone several times to dispute the charge, but no resolution has been reached.
I then received a court claim form, to which I submitted a defence. I then received a further form from the court (directions form), which I completed and returned and I now have a telephone mediation appointment scheduled. I understand that if no agreement is reached, the case will proceed to a hearing.
Could you please advise whether there is any basis for applying to have this claim struck out, or how best I can strengthen my position? My grounds for defence are:

I was unable to make payment due to a fault with the machine (frustration of contract).
As a disabled driver displaying a valid Blue Badge, reasonable adjustments should have been made under the Equality Act 2010.
Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.