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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: February 09, 2026, 11:18:53 am »
@jfollows

Thank you for clarifying those points and noted on returning with the allocation letter in due-course.

To understand the likelihood / preparation required; have you had instances where DCB Legal haven't discontinued?

Thanks,

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: February 09, 2026, 11:01:45 am »
Hi,

Hope all is well

Further to my previous update, I have since had the mediation meeting this morning.
Please find below details requested as for whom was representing from DCB Legal team today.

• the full name of the person attending for them; PAVAN KHALSA
• their role/position at their legal representative’s firm; and DCB LEGAL
• whether they hold written authority to negotiate and settle today. YES

DCB made a settlement offer of "£150" at today's mtg.
Stating their position as:-

- Still pursuing the claim.
- Photo’s of car with no Blue Badge (BB).
- Left side of car was not parked straight within the bay (partially in the grid markings).
- There was clear signage on display within the car park.


I continued with:-
"My settlement offer is £0, or I invite the claimant to discontinue with no order as to costs".
I added to my position that I had made an appeal to UKPC upon notification of the PCN. Providing evidence of my BB and confirming the bay markings/signage in the car park were unclear / created doubt, as to whether the bay was in fact a BB bay. Nevertheless, I provided photo's of my BB as evidence of status and reasons in the appeal; to which several months had past without any further correspondence received, therefore I had no reason to believe the case was ongoing.  I only came to formally know the claimant was pursuing when I received the formal letter stating for court intervention; unless we settled as to their (disproportionate) sums of costs.

Mediator concluded with permission from me as to mediation marked as ‘NOT SETTLED TODAY’. 

He went on to to say a letter will come through in the post in due-course for a hearing date in the future; court waiting time is currently back-logged. 

@b789 @jfollows
Please, is there anything further to prepare ahead of the date / should I expect DCB Legal to be in contact to settle the claim hereafter / if so, what do you advise here pls?

As always, your guidance and advise is most appreciated.

Kind Regards,
DearyDiora

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: February 07, 2026, 01:13:18 pm »
Hi,

Thank you, I have managed to find a recent mediation summary from @b789 dated January 2026 as below which i'll utilise


For the mediation call, the only requirement is for you "attend" the call. It is not part of the judicial process and no judge is involved.

This is what I advise you to say when you receive the call from the mediator:

“Before I set out my position, please confirm from the claimant’s side:

• the full name of the person attending for them;
• their role/position at their legal representative’s firm; and
• whether they hold written authority to negotiate and settle today.

Please relay that back to me before we continue.”

After the mediator calls back...

If identified and authority confirmed:

“Thank you. I’m content to proceed on that basis. My settlement offer is £0, or I invite the claimant to discontinue with no order as to costs.”

If no/unclear authority:

“Please record that the claimant’s attendee has not confirmed settlement authority. My position remains that liability is denied and my offer is £0, subject to prompt approval by an authorised solicitor if they choose to discontinue.”

If the mediator probes your defence:

”In what capacity are you asking that question? Are you legally trained?  If not, please refrain from offering opinions. I will be reporting any attempt to do so as inappropriate.”

All you need to know is the name and the position of the person acting for the claimant and report that back to us. It will be over within minutes. Complete waste of time otherwise.

I'll return to the thread in due-course with any further update to the case

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: February 07, 2026, 12:48:18 pm »
Dear @b789 @jfollows

Thank you both for your kind advice and instructions on how to proceed.  I am since back from travelling and note an email from HM Courts & Tribunals Service relating to my claim No.  Mediation telephone appointment set for 9th February 2026 (09:30am-12.30pm).

On my submitted N9B from (Defence and Counterclaim), I entered the details advised.

I have also ignored calls as mentioned from UKPC legal team during the period of receiving the above mediation appointment.

Could you kindly advise me on putting together a summary of main points that I can present to the mediator please, along side negotiating options?

Below points taken from form attached to my email from HM Courts & Tribunals Service:-
"You will need to briefly explain your claim or defence to the mediator. You should prepare for yourself a brief summary of the main points".
"You’re attending mediation with a view to settling your case. This means negotiating to overcome disputed issues".
"Building an agreement and reaching a settlement".

I look forward to receiving your advice to carry this forward ready for Monday 9th February 2026 mediation call.

Thank you in advance for all your help, it is truly appreciated and valued.

Kind Regards,
Deary Diora

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: November 29, 2025, 04:43:20 am »
Hi

Thank you so much for the above advice and guidance; it is very much appreciated.

I have completed the N180 form just now and sent as per your instructions to the court and DCB Legal.

In the meantime, I have had a voice mail left by DCB Legal, suggesting that they would like to reach out to discuss matters to do with the case.   I'm going to be away aboard from today, with limited access to my emails due to extensive travel.
What do you advise regards a phone discussion please?

Thank you in advice and ongoing support.
I eagerly will await your further guidance.

Kind Regards.
Noreen

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: November 10, 2025, 04:13:31 pm »
Good day,

Thank you for the clarity on the above list of steps.

Seems I received an email (below) from DCBLegal litigation dated 03.11.2025 (it went to junk and I've only picked up on it).

"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".

Here is the claimant's N180 attached to the email I received:-(REDACTED address details, claim No, etc). https://ibb.co/676jpMtL

I would greatly appreciate if you could review this and confirm what I should respond.

Kind Regards

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: October 06, 2025, 01:58:53 pm »
Hi,

Thank you so much @b789 for your guidance on my court defense paperwork.
I have used MCOL to submit my defence and draft order as per your guidance just now.
I note the summary status confirms this as: Your defence was submitted on 06/10/2025 at 12:41:06.

Would you kindly let me know what are the next steps from here? Is there a particular time-frame in which I should hear back from the courts?

Once again, I appreciate your updates on guidance.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 06:37:07 pm »
Thank you for your guidance and noted on the matter of not using 'quote'.

I've begun the defence submission online, using the defence you provided in MCOL.
There are questions on counter claim, please could you clarify this; if this is seeking costs, than I am not interested in that route, but wanted to double check here first on the clarification of this?

Also noted on the amended email to send noting the change from paper to corrected portal submission for AoS.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 05:53:07 pm »
Quote from: DearyDiora on September 23, 2025, 05:19:34 pm
Quote from: b789 on September 23, 2025, 04:48:30 pm
Quote from: DearyDiora on September 23, 2025, 01:31:33 pm
Having being advised to put the appeal into UKPC in this format, in the likelihood that they will close the case given a blue badge as evidence can be supplied, along side the confusing and unclear bay markings.

I was further advised to tick 'defend part of the claim' as they believe it would not be a winning case? So if the judgement was to reduce it back to the original PCN ticket cost and take the loss that the blue badge wasn't displayed.  It wasn't something i was happy to do, but I guess I panicked and was worried about the deadline date looming and the high costs.

Oh my, same person advised me on the jurisdiction and said to dispute this! I feel so silly to have submitted this in. Please would you be able to explain to me how this will be handed as all this time I believed it was at court?

Who has given you this duff "advice" and screwed you in the process?

You should have selected the option to defend the whole claim and you do not dispute jurisdiction unless you are resident outside of England or Wales.

Did you submit the Acknowledgement of Service by post or online using the MCOL portal? How did you submit the AoS and did you post it or use the online MCOL portal?

Please confirm whether you put anything at all in the defence box, either online or in the paper form?

Hopefully the claimant hasn't made a CPR 11 application.

With an issue date of 4th September, you had until 4pm today to submit your defence or, if you needed longer, submit the Acknowledgement of Service (AoS) by today and you then have until 4pm on Tuesday 7th October to submit your defence.

I am not sure whether MCOL will let you submit a defence now that you've screwed up the tick boxes, but you can try and submit the following as your defence in MCOL, if it lets you:

Quote
1. The Defendant denies the claim in its entirety. The Defendant asserts that there is no liability to the Claimant and that no debt is owed. The claim is without merit and does not adequately disclose any comprehensible cause of action.

2. There is a lack of precise detail in the Particulars of Claim (PoC) in respect of the factual and legal allegations made against the Defendant such that the PoC do not adequately comply with CPR 16.4.

3. The Defendant is unable to plead properly to the PoC because:

(a) The contract referred to is not detailed or attached to the PoC in accordance with PD 16, para 7.3(1);

(b) The PoC do not state the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract (or contracts) which is/are relied on;

(c) The PoC do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts the defendant has breached the contract (or contracts);

(d) The PoC do not state with sufficient particularity exactly where the breach occurred, the exact time when the breach occurred and how long it is alleged that the vehicle was parked before the parking charge was allegedly incurred;

(e) The PoC do not state precisely how the sum claimed is calculated, including the basis for any statutory interest, damages, or other charges;

(f) The PoC do not state what proportion of the claim is the parking charge and what proportion is damages;

(g) The PoC do not provide clarity on whether the Defendant is sued as the driver or the keeper of the vehicle, as the claimant cannot plead alternative causes of action without specificity.

4. The Defendant submits that courts have previously struck out materially similar claims of their own initiative for failure to adequately comply with CPR 16.4, particularly where the Particulars of Claim failed to specify the contractual terms relied upon or explain the alleged breach with sufficient clarity.

5. In comparable cases involving modest sums, judges have found that requiring further case management steps would be disproportionate and contrary to the overriding objective. Accordingly, strike-out was deemed appropriate. The Defendant submits that the same reasoning applies in this case and invites the court to adopt a similar approach by striking out the claim due to the Claimant’s failure to adequately comply with CPR 16.4, rather than permitting an amendment. The Defendant proposes that the following Order be made:

Draft Order:

Of the Court's own initiative and upon reading the particulars of claim and the defence.

AND the court being of the view that the particulars of claim do not adequately comply with CPR 16.4(1)(a) because: (a) they do not set out the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract which is (or are) relied on; and (b) they do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts that the defendant was in breach of contract.

AND the claimant could have complied with CPR 16.4(1)(a) had it served separate detailed particulars of claim, as it could have done pursuant to PD 7C, para 5.2, but chose not to do so.

AND upon the Court determining, having regard to the overriding objective (CPR 1.1), that it would be disproportionate to direct further pleadings or to allot any further share of the Court’s resources to this claim (for example by ordering further particulars of claim and a further defence, with consequent case management).

ORDER:

1. The claim is struck out.

2. Permission to either party to apply to set aside, vary or stay this order by application on notice, which must be filed at this Court not more than 7 days after service of this order, failing which no such application may be made.

What you also need to do immediately, besides answering the questions above, is as follows:

Send a single email addressed to ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk and you CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself:

Quote
Subject: Tick-box errors – rectify under CPR 3.10; defend claim in full – [Claim No.]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I refer to the AoS filed on [date]. Two tick-box errors were made: “defend part of the claim” and “contest jurisdiction”.
For the avoidance of doubt, no sum is admitted, the Defendant does not contest the court’s jurisdiction, and the Defendant intends to defend the claim in full.

Please correct the record pursuant to CPR 3.10 and accept the attached Defence for filing. If the MCOL system flag prevents online filing, please treat the Defence as filed by email today.

I have copied the Claimant’s solicitor with this correspondence.

Yours faithfully,

[your full name]

As a back up, you also attach the following copy of the defence and draft order to that email. You sign any documents, such as the defence below by simply typing your full name. There is nothing other than edit in the draft order.

Quote
IN THE COUNTY COURT
Claim No: [Claim Number]

BETWEEN:

UK Parking Control Ltd
Claimant

- and -

[Defendant's Full Name]

Defendant


DEFENCE

1. The Defendant denies the claim in its entirety. The Defendant asserts that there is no liability to the Claimant and that no debt is owed. The claim is without merit and does not adequately disclose any comprehensible cause of action.

2. There is a lack of precise detail in the Particulars of Claim (PoC) in respect of the factual and legal allegations made against the Defendant such that the PoC do not comply with CPR 16.4.

3. The Defendant is unable to plead properly to the PoC because:

(a) The contract referred to is not detailed or attached to the PoC in accordance with CPR PD 16.7.3(1);

(b) The PoC do not state the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract (or contracts) which is/are relied on;

(c) The PoC do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts the defendant has breached the contract (or contracts)

(d) The PoC do not state with sufficient particularity exactly where the breach occurred, the exact time when the breach occurred and how long it is alleged that the vehicle was parked before the parking charge was allegedly incurred;

(e) The PoC do not state precisely how the sum claimed is calculated, including the basis for any statutory interest, damages, or other charges;

(f) The PoC do not state what proportion of the claim is the parking charge and what proportion is damages;

(g) The PoC do not provide clarity on whether the Defendant is sued as the driver or the keeper of the vehicle, as the claimant cannot plead alternative causes of action without specificity.

4. The Defendant attaches to this defence a copy of a draft order approved by a district judge at another court. The court struck out the claim of its own initiative after determining that the Particulars of Claim failed to comply with CPR 16.4. The judge noted that the claimant had failed to:

(i) Set out the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions relied upon;

(ii) Adequately explain the reasons why the defendant was allegedly in breach of contract;

(iii) Provide separate, detailed Particulars of Claim as permitted under CPR PD 7C.5.2(2).

(iv) The court further observed that, given the modest sum claimed, requiring further case management steps would be disproportionate and contrary to the overriding objective. Accordingly, the judge struck out the claim outright rather than permitting an amendment.

5. The Defendant submits that the same reasoning applies in this case and invites the court to adopt a similar approach by striking out the claim for the Claimant’s failure to comply with CPR 16.4.

Statement of truth

I believe that the facts stated in this Defence are true. I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.

Signed:


Date:[

The draft order is here:

Draft Order for the defence


Hi @b789

Agreed, error on the advice part given to me; point noted for future reference, that's for sure.

In answer to your questions:
1. Did you submit the Acknowledgement of Service by post or online using the MCOL portal? How did you submit the AoS and did you post it or use the online MCOL portal? I did so via post (recorded delivery) dated 19 September 2025.

Please advise if I should proceed with the email / or try online using the MCOL portal first? I suppose I should follow it up with the drafted email you mention below for the error and avoidance of doubt?

2. Please confirm whether you put anything at all in the defence box, either online or in the paper form? No, I left the defence section blank; to be filled in with the extension date.

Should I proceed with how it stands and try upload to MCOL portal right now? given you mentioned the acknowledgement of service deadline to submit is today.

Many thanks and really appreciate your advice.


To add to this, I have since managed to login to MCOL and I have submitted the Acknowledgement of Service via the portal, with the summary page confirming I have done so (HERE):-

https://1drv.ms/b/c/657cd71f0e9ce301/EWDbySA9fsdPsn-H8A4iPGkBOmV_MwE0a7ExjrlDcFlUpA?e=pFT4vo

https://1drv.ms/b/c/657cd71f0e9ce301/EVCeX5Y6s91AijOL0iOh4A8B5do9GUe3Qt3SSrg9h7SBEQ?e=qWjioN

I shall be proceeding to send the email you mentioned in your post to cover my basis on the error in case the postal form also comes through today.



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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 05:19:34 pm »
Quote from: b789 on September 23, 2025, 04:48:30 pm
Quote from: DearyDiora on September 23, 2025, 01:31:33 pm
Having being advised to put the appeal into UKPC in this format, in the likelihood that they will close the case given a blue badge as evidence can be supplied, along side the confusing and unclear bay markings.

I was further advised to tick 'defend part of the claim' as they believe it would not be a winning case? So if the judgement was to reduce it back to the original PCN ticket cost and take the loss that the blue badge wasn't displayed.  It wasn't something i was happy to do, but I guess I panicked and was worried about the deadline date looming and the high costs.

Oh my, same person advised me on the jurisdiction and said to dispute this! I feel so silly to have submitted this in. Please would you be able to explain to me how this will be handed as all this time I believed it was at court?

Who has given you this duff "advice" and screwed you in the process?

You should have selected the option to defend the whole claim and you do not dispute jurisdiction unless you are resident outside of England or Wales.

Did you submit the Acknowledgement of Service by post or online using the MCOL portal? How did you submit the AoS and did you post it or use the online MCOL portal?

Please confirm whether you put anything at all in the defence box, either online or in the paper form?

Hopefully the claimant hasn't made a CPR 11 application.

With an issue date of 4th September, you had until 4pm today to submit your defence or, if you needed longer, submit the Acknowledgement of Service (AoS) by today and you then have until 4pm on Tuesday 7th October to submit your defence.

I am not sure whether MCOL will let you submit a defence now that you've screwed up the tick boxes, but you can try and submit the following as your defence in MCOL, if it lets you:

Quote
1. The Defendant denies the claim in its entirety. The Defendant asserts that there is no liability to the Claimant and that no debt is owed. The claim is without merit and does not adequately disclose any comprehensible cause of action.

2. There is a lack of precise detail in the Particulars of Claim (PoC) in respect of the factual and legal allegations made against the Defendant such that the PoC do not adequately comply with CPR 16.4.

3. The Defendant is unable to plead properly to the PoC because:

(a) The contract referred to is not detailed or attached to the PoC in accordance with PD 16, para 7.3(1);

(b) The PoC do not state the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract (or contracts) which is/are relied on;

(c) The PoC do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts the defendant has breached the contract (or contracts);

(d) The PoC do not state with sufficient particularity exactly where the breach occurred, the exact time when the breach occurred and how long it is alleged that the vehicle was parked before the parking charge was allegedly incurred;

(e) The PoC do not state precisely how the sum claimed is calculated, including the basis for any statutory interest, damages, or other charges;

(f) The PoC do not state what proportion of the claim is the parking charge and what proportion is damages;

(g) The PoC do not provide clarity on whether the Defendant is sued as the driver or the keeper of the vehicle, as the claimant cannot plead alternative causes of action without specificity.

4. The Defendant submits that courts have previously struck out materially similar claims of their own initiative for failure to adequately comply with CPR 16.4, particularly where the Particulars of Claim failed to specify the contractual terms relied upon or explain the alleged breach with sufficient clarity.

5. In comparable cases involving modest sums, judges have found that requiring further case management steps would be disproportionate and contrary to the overriding objective. Accordingly, strike-out was deemed appropriate. The Defendant submits that the same reasoning applies in this case and invites the court to adopt a similar approach by striking out the claim due to the Claimant’s failure to adequately comply with CPR 16.4, rather than permitting an amendment. The Defendant proposes that the following Order be made:

Draft Order:

Of the Court's own initiative and upon reading the particulars of claim and the defence.

AND the court being of the view that the particulars of claim do not adequately comply with CPR 16.4(1)(a) because: (a) they do not set out the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract which is (or are) relied on; and (b) they do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts that the defendant was in breach of contract.

AND the claimant could have complied with CPR 16.4(1)(a) had it served separate detailed particulars of claim, as it could have done pursuant to PD 7C, para 5.2, but chose not to do so.

AND upon the Court determining, having regard to the overriding objective (CPR 1.1), that it would be disproportionate to direct further pleadings or to allot any further share of the Court’s resources to this claim (for example by ordering further particulars of claim and a further defence, with consequent case management).

ORDER:

1. The claim is struck out.

2. Permission to either party to apply to set aside, vary or stay this order by application on notice, which must be filed at this Court not more than 7 days after service of this order, failing which no such application may be made.

What you also need to do immediately, besides answering the questions above, is as follows:

Send a single email addressed to ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk and you CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself:

Quote
Subject: Tick-box errors – rectify under CPR 3.10; defend claim in full – [Claim No.]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I refer to the AoS filed on [date]. Two tick-box errors were made: “defend part of the claim” and “contest jurisdiction”.
For the avoidance of doubt, no sum is admitted, the Defendant does not contest the court’s jurisdiction, and the Defendant intends to defend the claim in full.

Please correct the record pursuant to CPR 3.10 and accept the attached Defence for filing. If the MCOL system flag prevents online filing, please treat the Defence as filed by email today.

I have copied the Claimant’s solicitor with this correspondence.

Yours faithfully,

[your full name]

As a back up, you also attach the following copy of the defence and draft order to that email. You sign any documents, such as the defence below by simply typing your full name. There is nothing other than edit in the draft order.

Quote
IN THE COUNTY COURT
Claim No: [Claim Number]

BETWEEN:

UK Parking Control Ltd
Claimant

- and -

[Defendant's Full Name]

Defendant


DEFENCE

1. The Defendant denies the claim in its entirety. The Defendant asserts that there is no liability to the Claimant and that no debt is owed. The claim is without merit and does not adequately disclose any comprehensible cause of action.

2. There is a lack of precise detail in the Particulars of Claim (PoC) in respect of the factual and legal allegations made against the Defendant such that the PoC do not comply with CPR 16.4.

3. The Defendant is unable to plead properly to the PoC because:

(a) The contract referred to is not detailed or attached to the PoC in accordance with CPR PD 16.7.3(1);

(b) The PoC do not state the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions of the contract (or contracts) which is/are relied on;

(c) The PoC do not adequately set out the reason (or reasons) why the claimant asserts the defendant has breached the contract (or contracts)

(d) The PoC do not state with sufficient particularity exactly where the breach occurred, the exact time when the breach occurred and how long it is alleged that the vehicle was parked before the parking charge was allegedly incurred;

(e) The PoC do not state precisely how the sum claimed is calculated, including the basis for any statutory interest, damages, or other charges;

(f) The PoC do not state what proportion of the claim is the parking charge and what proportion is damages;

(g) The PoC do not provide clarity on whether the Defendant is sued as the driver or the keeper of the vehicle, as the claimant cannot plead alternative causes of action without specificity.

4. The Defendant attaches to this defence a copy of a draft order approved by a district judge at another court. The court struck out the claim of its own initiative after determining that the Particulars of Claim failed to comply with CPR 16.4. The judge noted that the claimant had failed to:

(i) Set out the exact wording of the clause (or clauses) of the terms and conditions relied upon;

(ii) Adequately explain the reasons why the defendant was allegedly in breach of contract;

(iii) Provide separate, detailed Particulars of Claim as permitted under CPR PD 7C.5.2(2).

(iv) The court further observed that, given the modest sum claimed, requiring further case management steps would be disproportionate and contrary to the overriding objective. Accordingly, the judge struck out the claim outright rather than permitting an amendment.

5. The Defendant submits that the same reasoning applies in this case and invites the court to adopt a similar approach by striking out the claim for the Claimant’s failure to comply with CPR 16.4.

Statement of truth

I believe that the facts stated in this Defence are true. I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.

Signed:


Date:[

The draft order is here:

Draft Order for the defence


Hi @b789

Agreed, error on the advice part given to me; point noted for future reference, that's for sure.

In answer to your questions:
1. Did you submit the Acknowledgement of Service by post or online using the MCOL portal? How did you submit the AoS and did you post it or use the online MCOL portal? I did so via post (recorded delivery) dated 19 September 2025.

Please advise if I should proceed with the email / or try online using the MCOL portal first? I suppose I should follow it up with the drafted email you mention below for the error and avoidance of doubt?

2. Please confirm whether you put anything at all in the defence box, either online or in the paper form? No, I left the defence section blank; to be filled in with the extension date.

Should I proceed with how it stands and try upload to MCOL portal right now? given you mentioned the acknowledgement of service deadline to submit is today.

Many thanks and really appreciate your advice.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 02:22:44 pm »
Quote from: jfollows on September 23, 2025, 02:18:54 pm
The letter of claim will have been from DCB Legal, not from UKPC.

Nothing from my recollection was received. my post has been re-directed and nothing has been received in all that time.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 02:15:16 pm »
Quote from: DearyDiora on September 23, 2025, 02:09:41 pm
Quote from: jfollows on September 23, 2025, 01:50:27 pm
Letter of Claim.

The N1SDT claim was deemed served on 8 September and your defence has to be submitted within 28 days, so by 6 October if you submitted an Acknowledgment of Service.

Thank you @jfollows for clarifying the defence submission date for me.

Th only letter notification i received from UKPC was the initial PCN issued, to which I submitted the above mentioned appeal.
Thereafter, I hadn't had any further post from them, which is why I was so surprised to see a court claim form after 7-ish months later.


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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 02:09:41 pm »
Quote from: jfollows on September 23, 2025, 01:50:27 pm
Letter of Claim.

The N1SDT claim was deemed served on 8 September and your defence has to be submitted within 28 days, so by 6 October if you submitted an Acknowledgment of Service.

Thank you @jfollows for clarifying the defence submission date for me.

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 01:32:48 pm »
To add, i'm sorry I do not know what a LoClaim from a solicitor etc is?

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Private parking tickets / Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
« on: September 23, 2025, 01:31:33 pm »
Hi,

Thank you for both of your responses. I have since included a redacted version of the claim form.

Regarding argument of appeal pleases allow me to clarify; it was unclear at the time whether the bay was a designated bay due to the rubbed off bay markings and signage, therefore seemed the bay was a 'regular' bay and it was a space closest to the retail shop, as were bays adjacent to those bays.  There was an occupant that is a blue badge holder in the vehicle at the time, and so finding the closest bay was what was the case.

Having being advised to put the appeal into UKPC in this format, in the likelihood that they will close the case given a blue badge as evidence can be supplied, along side the confusing and unclear bay markings.

I was further advised to tick 'defend part of the claim' as they believe it would not be a winning case? So if the judgement was to reduce it back to the original PCN ticket cost and take the loss that the blue badge wasn't displayed.  It wasn't something i was happy to do, but I guess I panicked and was worried about the deadline date looming and the high costs.

Oh my, same person advised me on the jurisdiction and said to dispute this! I feel so silly to have submitted this in. Please would you be able to explain to me how this will be handed as all this time I believed it was at court?

I would be very happy to hear what you advise on this at this current stage (in hindsight I wish I had contacted on here sooner); pls what is the best way to handle this matter as it stands? I sent the acknowledgement form via recorded delivery. would it be an idea to update it via online?

Also, would you kindly clarify for me by what date I must submit my defense in?

Here is the URL Link to the county court claim form: https://1drv.ms/b/c/657cd71f0e9ce301/EWD576UphgNOvkMRouQMozYBMJklqNkMx34BC9DGFlHKoA?e=naJXJn


Many thanks,

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