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Today received an email...

Dear _________

We act for the claimant in the above matter

Our client has instructed us to discontinue court proceedings and close our file. Therefore, please find enclosed the claimant's N279 Notice of Discontinuance for your records.

The attached file has also been filed with the court.

We will proceed to close our file accordingly.

Thank you for the support and for providing such a great resource in the forum.

It does not say a date, but says

Each party must deliver to the other party and to the court office copies of all documents on which that party intends to rely at the hearing, no later than fourteen days before the hearing. So 14 days before the 30th would be by the 16th April.

Update: Received a letter today, October 07th 2025.Dated 13th Septemberv2025

Notice of transfer of proceedings

To all parties

This claim has been transferred to the county court at Medway for allocation. On receipt, the file will be referred to a procedural judge who will allocate te claim to track and give case management directions. Details of the judge's decision will be sent to you in a notice of allocation.

I will keep updated.

Excelent result, well done,  Can you post a copy of the N279 ? I feel the more people posting these realy helps show others that people can contest these firms and get a result meaning they are not getting ripped off.

Update to this thread

Received a letter from DCBL shortly after submitting form, stating they disagree and basically their client has instructed them to pursue in court.They did not answer anything.

Later received N180 form via post dated 30 June.

I have responded using my own fowm not the one supplied, I downloaded from link below and discarded paper copies.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673341e779e9143625613543/N180_1124.pdf

Following advice from member @b789 on another thread,

I have used the following 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 yourself. Make sure that the claim number is in the subject field of the email.

Hope you don't mind be reposting your advice b789, but wanted to update for anyone looking.

The Aos is submitted. I'm unsure exactly how to defend this, I currently have zero concrete information other than what is stated on the claim form which isn't too much.

So it's hard to defend without having all the information available and the time frame in which it has been left. Should I contact the company and request more information photos etc?

Any advice is appreciated.

Im not sure in its relevance but we have heard nothing from anyone for a long time and recently moved when we then got letters from dcb.

well done, Please update with your progress or outcome