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Obscure the password.

As it says, you have to file a defence or Acknowledgement of Service by 18 May.
If the latter, you have until 1 June to file a defence.

Your defence is that you, as the registered keeper, can not be liable because G24 issued the original PCN too late to transfer liability to you from the unknown driver, under the provisions of PoFA 2012.

Obviously you need to elaborate on that a bit, by quoting the appropriate legislation and the key dates which demonstrate lack of compliance.

Don’t forget that G24 said

The notice to keeper has been issued within the relevant time frames outside of the Protection of Freedoms Act.

Search the forum for many, many documented similar cases, and you will see that DCB Legal usually discontinue defended cases, but you have to keep up with the paperwork until they do, including filing a defence.

Obscure the password.

As it says, you have to file a defence or Acknowledgement of Service by 18 May.
If the latter, you have until 1 June to file a defence.

Your defence is that you, as the registered keeper, can not be liable because G24 issued the original PCN too late to transfer liability to you from the unknown driver, under the provisions of PoFA 2012.

Obviously you need to elaborate on that a bit, by quoting the appropriate legislation and the key dates which demonstrate lack of compliance.

Don’t forget that G24 said

Quote

The notice to keeper has been issued within the relevant time frames outside of the Protection of Freedoms Act.

Search the forum for many, many documented similar cases, and you will see that DCB Legal usually discontinue defended cases, but you have to keep up with the paperwork until they do, including filing a defence.

The notice to keeper has been issued within the relevant time frames outside of the Protection of Freedoms Act.

what does that mean from keepers point of view

Thank you. I found a similar case and used that to reply to them. Received attached this morning.

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

No option to attach pdf lol. Will upload screenshots via laptop shortly

Hello all. Received form N180 from courts today.
Can someone please advise next steps.
Thank you

Search the forum for N180 and you will find

Having received your own N180 (make sure it is not simply a copy of the claimants N180), do not use the paper form. Ignore all the other forms that came with it. you can discard those. Download your own here and fill it in on your computer. You sign it by simply typing your full name in the signature box.

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

Here are the 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 (email of solicitor) and CC in yourself. Make sure that the claim number is in the subject field of the email.