Gladstone Solicitors, UK Car Park Management and County Court Judgement

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Hello! Looking for some advice; I’m new to the site but had seen similar posts and thought you may be able to assist. My Dad has evidence of paying for parking in 2019. My Dad is elderly and a gentleman helped him with the parking machines; on his parking pay and display ticket the kind stranger entered the VRN into the machine and essentially they got one digit wrong on the VRN but my Dad had to go back to buy a further parking ticket because they were longer than expected this time the VRN was perfect. My Dad’s paid for the entire duration they’re claiming he’s not paid for.
We’ve ignored the letters for now because he’s paid for the parking and we’ve evidence to prove it. However, this week he’s received the following letter and we’re just concerned about the threatening nature of the letter from Gladstones.

Any advice on what this actually means and what our options are would be greatly appreciated. I know we have the option to pay them but it seems very unreasonable considering my Dad has already paid for the parking. Thank you!

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Letter received

[ostell]

That's not a letter from Gladstones, that's a letter from the court telling your dad that he lost the court case and he has to pay the amount claimed. And pay it to Gladstones

This is what happens when you ignore court papers

If it's not paid within 30 days the CCJ will appear on the credit references

[R070402]

Thank you for your reply Ostell! I don’t recall ever seeing a courts summon or mention of the case being referred to court. Is that something they should have made us aware of before it got to this stage?

[ostell]

As you said you ignored all letters then you could have ignored the court form as it had the names of UKCPM and Gladstones on it

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Thank you for your reply! We’ve checked all the received letters (as my dad has kept them) but we’ve never received a summons.

[ostell]

It's not a summons, it's a claim form looking like this:-

https://assets.publishing.service.go.../n1sdt-eng.pdf

Have you got a form similar to that?

It's strange that you did not receive one as they had sufficient details to correctly send the judgement

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Sorry for the late reply; I couldn’t recall ever seeing that form and I asked my dad to double check all his correspondence and he has confirmed he’s never received anything like the link you kindly sent across.
We will call them and kindly request they send us a copy of that across so that we can respond to them. Thank you for your help!

[ostell]

If you believe that you never received the form then that is a basis for a setaside.

Send a SAR to UKCPM to get hold of all the documents they hold about your father Template in the panel on the right. Your father will need to provide a valid defence

[R070402]

Thank you so much! You’ve been really helpful!