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Re: Debt Enforcement & Action Ltd - FINAL REMINDER BEFORE COURT ACTION
Hi there,
I have also similarly received a letter from DEAL dated 15/09/14 relating to an original notice that i received in February 2013.
Whilst i have read the above posts, i just wanted to clarify if the same adivce would apply to my situation if i was actually the driver of the car so don't necessarily have the option of claiming it wasn't me....
Basically, on a Saturday afternoon in Jan 2013 i parked at a Co-Op store in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I stayed in the carpark for 2hrs 4mins, 34 mins over the 1hr 30mins limit (which i hadn't realised). During this time, the car park was not full (i.e. i was not denying anyone else a parking space), and i also completed a shop in the named Co-Op store. Incidentally, since then, the store has closed down and is now operated by M & S.
A month or so later i then received a "Parking Enforcement Notice" from CEL Ltd, and on advice at the time, ignored that notice and any future correspondence.
I received 3 more "reminders" from CEL which i also ignored, and then nothing more until January 2014 when i received a letter from CEL Ltd saying they had "transferred" the debt to DEAL. I then received no further correspondence until 15th September 2014 at which point DEAL wrote and informed me that as per their "previous correspondence" they had instructed their solicitors to draft Particulars of Claim which they intended to lodge at Northampton Crown Court on 24th September 2014.
During all of this time however, i got married (and so changed name), sold the car in question and also moved house so have only this past weekend received the outdated
Did i do the correct thing to ignore the original notices and subsequent notices? The advice at the time was that the fines were unenforceable owing to unreasonable level of charges and the fact that they would need to prove that i "denied" the store potential revenue during that time by parking in a space which another customer could use...but the fact that the car park was not full went against that supposed claim, never mind the fact that i shopped in the store as well?
Any advice that you can offer would be greatly received. I am currently 35wks pregnant and needless to say, the shock of receiving yet more correspondence after such a long time when i thought the issue had gone quiet was very upsetting over the weekend and actually made me sick with worry. My initial instinct was to just pay to close off the issue, but advice still seems to be to ignore?
Is this correct?
Mel
Hi there,
I have also similarly received a letter from DEAL dated 15/09/14 relating to an original notice that i received in February 2013.
Whilst i have read the above posts, i just wanted to clarify if the same adivce would apply to my situation if i was actually the driver of the car so don't necessarily have the option of claiming it wasn't me....
Basically, on a Saturday afternoon in Jan 2013 i parked at a Co-Op store in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I stayed in the carpark for 2hrs 4mins, 34 mins over the 1hr 30mins limit (which i hadn't realised). During this time, the car park was not full (i.e. i was not denying anyone else a parking space), and i also completed a shop in the named Co-Op store. Incidentally, since then, the store has closed down and is now operated by M & S.
A month or so later i then received a "Parking Enforcement Notice" from CEL Ltd, and on advice at the time, ignored that notice and any future correspondence.
I received 3 more "reminders" from CEL which i also ignored, and then nothing more until January 2014 when i received a letter from CEL Ltd saying they had "transferred" the debt to DEAL. I then received no further correspondence until 15th September 2014 at which point DEAL wrote and informed me that as per their "previous correspondence" they had instructed their solicitors to draft Particulars of Claim which they intended to lodge at Northampton Crown Court on 24th September 2014.
During all of this time however, i got married (and so changed name), sold the car in question and also moved house so have only this past weekend received the outdated
Did i do the correct thing to ignore the original notices and subsequent notices? The advice at the time was that the fines were unenforceable owing to unreasonable level of charges and the fact that they would need to prove that i "denied" the store potential revenue during that time by parking in a space which another customer could use...but the fact that the car park was not full went against that supposed claim, never mind the fact that i shopped in the store as well?
Any advice that you can offer would be greatly received. I am currently 35wks pregnant and needless to say, the shock of receiving yet more correspondence after such a long time when i thought the issue had gone quiet was very upsetting over the weekend and actually made me sick with worry. My initial instinct was to just pay to close off the issue, but advice still seems to be to ignore?
Is this correct?
Mel
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