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Hey Team,

I've not heard any more on this since the Notice of Transfer of Proceedings back in Aug last year. I'm assuming DCB Legal has given up on this now, but before I consider this closed, is there any way I can check to be 100% sure?

Many thanks. 

Quick FYI to up date this thread. I've just got off the Mediation call, who was a very nice chap by the way, where I was offered 3 options.

• Offer nothing and stand my ground
• Offer to pay the full claim
• Offer to some of the claim

I chose door number 1 and said I'm willing to see them in court.

I'll now wait for the claim to be discontinued

Hi All,  a couple of things have happened this week.

• I received a 'Notice of Proposed Allocation to the Small Claims Track' letter.
• I received  a Mediation Appointment Confirmation email

I've posted both of these below but only partial amount of the email as it was quite long and a lot of default info, but please let me know if you'd like to see the whole thing.

Looking at other threads in the forum, I gather I should, at the mediation...

Just say if asked about your defence or position that you have set out the basis of your defence in writing, and the claimant is in receipt of a copy. You stand by it's contents, do not believe you owe the claimant anything, and you are therefore not prepared to offer more than £0 in return for the claim being discontinued.

Notice of Proposed Allocation to the Small Claims Track


Mediation Appointment Confirmation email (Partial)


Many thanks for your continued support!

Hi All,

I've received a response to the defense of the claim as follows:

Having reviewed the content of your defence, we write to inform you that our client intends to proceed with the claim.

In due course, the Court will direct both parties to each file a directions questionnaire. In preparation for that, please find attached a copy of the Claimant's, which we confirm has been filed with the Court.

Without Prejudice to the above, in order to assist the Court in achieving its overriding objective, our client may be prepared to settle this case - in the event you wish to discuss settlement, please call us on 0203 434 0433 within 7 days and make immediate reference to this correspondence.

If you have provided an email address within your Defence, we intend to use it for service of documents (usually in PDF format) hereon in pursuant to PD 6A (4.1)(2)(c). Please advise whether there are any limitations to this (for example, the format in which documents are to be sent and the maximum size of attachments that may be received). Unless you advise otherwise, we will assume not.

They also attached a 'Directions questionnaire' (attached)

Please advise if there is anything I need do at this stage?

Many thanks.

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Hi Team,

Quick FYI that I sent the defence email off to claimresponses.cnbc@justice.gov.uk and received the following, automated, response:

Thank you for emailing the Claim Responses Team in the Civil National Business Centre. Please expect a response to your enquiry in 10 days

When sending us documents please ensure you comply with the Practice Direction 5B

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part05/pd_part05b

Documents not complying will not be accepted, in particular if it is over 10MB or 25 printed pages in size.

Cheers.

Hi there, I've submitted a report to HMRC but at the end I didn't get a notification that a claim form will be send.

I went through several pages of who & what I was reporting but at the end posted this as the 'report'

Due to DCB Legal Ltd's reply to my questions about VAT, where DCB Legal have replied trying to have me believe the £170 is exempt, rightly or wrongly I suspect them of possibly not applying VAT on the £70 DRA fee (added on top of their client's £100 parking charge, which is VAT exempt).  DRA fees are certainly not exempt and DCB Group (Ltd and Legal) has collected multi-millions of £170 in the past 5 years or more.

They are suspected by many consumers of treating their extortionate £70 fee (per PCN) wrongly as if it's a parking charge. If this is the case, it will be hundreds of millions of times.

I only got the following...

HMRC will:

• review your submitted report
• not provide updates due to confidentiality
• not provide updates due to confidentiality

HMRC will only contact you if necessary. You will hear from HMRC if:

• we need further information about your report
• you are suitable for a reward

Rewards are not guaranteed.

Is this to be expected?

Thanks @b789,

I'll send that on. One question though, should I not confirm why the debt is disputed? eg:

1) The Notice to Keeper (NTK) was delivered outside of the relevant period specified under sub-paragraph 9 (5) of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (POFA)
2) The required statement 9 2 (e)(i) inviting the keeper to pay the unpaid parking charges was not given.

I can share all the docs that I've been able to find from the original communication if you want. 

Many thanks!

Awesome... thanks so much for the advice