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Yes, upload the docs please.
You have 14+5 days from the date on the form to file a defence or Acknowlegement of Service, and if you file AoS you have a further 14 days to file a defence, which needs to be specific to the Particulars of Claim on the N1SDT form.

Did you receive a Letter of Claim from DCB Legal?

If the claim is in the name of DCB Legal then not responding to a Letter of Claim is not fatal because it won’t ever get as far as court as long as you follow the process.
If it’s in the name of Parking Eye it’s more serious because they tend to keep the ones they expect to win in-house.

Remember, there is a mandatory mediation step, which someone will have to attend.

You have to file a defence or AoS by 20 July.
If you file AoS you have until 3 August to file a defence.

Do not use a boilerplate/template defence, instead construct something which responds to the stated Particulars of Claim (woeful) and specifics to your case and builds on the appeals you have already constructed.

DCB Legal will almost certainly discontinue rather than paying the court fee, but that’s some way down the line and your research will have shown you what’s involved between now and then.

It’s DCB Legal who is handling this, not Parking Eye. Of course Parking Eye is the claimant, but they’ve farmed the work out to DCB Legal.