Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

[Stetam]

Hi, my husband. Has received a formal letter of claim from Wright Hassall instructed by ZZPS ltd to recover debt for allegedly not parking within the marking of the bay space at an NCP car park at a train station. Old advice used to be ignore the previous threatening letters but I see now this is not the correct thing to do! Now that we have this letter I'm unsure of the next step needed to deal with this situation. The original PCN was for 27/09/16 and the formal letter of claim was dated 15/03/17. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[mystery1]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

Can you sanitise and post all the letters, PCN and signs you have ?

M1

[Stetam]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

I have attached the PCN and all the letters I could find! Hopefully I have done it correctly as I'm new to this! Thanks so much for your help!

[Stetam]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

I have been told that these are debt collector letters and not solicitor letters and not to worry about them and that the letter of claim is actually from ZZPS using Wright Hassal letter head? Is it true that if it's a train station NCP car park and 6 months has passed since PCN was issued then they can no longer come after my husband with these threatening letters?

[mystery1]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

They are debt collectors letters. ZZps can't do shit. However, many other companies using the same tactic are proceeding to claims nowadays.

It remains to be seen on the byelaw front as one never knows how a court will rule but my expectation is they should lose on this point.


As you are dealing with this, were you driving ?

M1

[Stetam]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

Oh thanks M1, this is a relief. No I wasn't driving it was my husband. I'm just chasing this up for him as he's always busy with work! So is it true re the 6 month mark? If so 6 months is this month! Thanks so much for taking the time to help me!

[mystery1]

Re: Wright Hassall Formal Letter of Claim

In the magistrates court, where a byelaw would be prosecuted, there is a 6 month limit for minor offences such as these, but that only relates to the information being laid with the court.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/43/section/127


What remains to be seen, is when brought up as a contractual case in a CIVIL court whether a judge would throw the case out or disregard the byelaws and proceed as a normal contractual case.

M1