**DISCONTINUED** PCM - IAS - Help needed please

[Jaggs]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Filed AOS online, What do we do about the defence. Thanks

[charitynjw]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Is the claim issue date 19th May?

If yes, you have until 21st June to file.

[mystery1]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Edit to suit.

Jaggsdef.rtf

M1

[ostell]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

The red sign contains no sum of money to be paid. It also describes the charge as a "penalty fine". This confirms that the charge is a penalty, which is not allowed and a fine which is a no no.

[Jaggs]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Thanks alot [MENTION=5354]mystery1[/MENTION] for the defence, very well written.

Thanks for your comments charitynjw and ostell.

All understood. Will edit to suit and submit it very soon.

[charitynjw]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Hi jaggs

From what I've seen, Gladstones often play it right down to the wire, then discontinue at last knockings. (Presumably in the hope that the defendant will cave in first).
You can't rely on that happening, of course, but it goes some way to explain their possible strategy.

[Jaggs]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Hello Defence submitted and received this today

Parking Control Management (Uk) Limited
-v-
Me

We act for the Claimant and have notified the Court of our Client’s intention to proceed with the claim.

Please find attached a copy of our Client’s completed Directions Questionnaire, which will be filed with the court upon their request. You will note we intend to request a special direction that the case be dealt with on the papers and without the need for an oral hearing

This request is sought simply because the matter is in our Client’s opinion relatively straightforward and the costs incurred by both parties for attending an oral hearing would be disproportionate.

You will note our Client has elected not to mediate. Its decision is not meant to be in any way obstructive and is based purely on experience, as mediation has rarely proven beneficial in these types of cases. Notwithstanding this, our Client would be happy to listen to any genuine payment proposals that you wish to put forward.

Kind Regards

Gladstones Solicitors Limited

attached sanitised documents

Please advice, Thank you

[charitynjw]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Absolutely do not agree to a hearing on papers.
You stand a much better change making a personal oral representation.

[Jaggs]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Success!!!

Thank you [MENTION=5354]mystery1[/MENTION] [MENTION=5553]charitynjw[/MENTION] [MENTION=39331]ostell[/MENTION] for all your support.

[charitynjw]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Nice one, Jaggs.

I'll give our [MENTION=49370]Kati[/MENTION] a nudge as well.

Was this case actually allocated to Small Claims? (Rather than just the proposed allocation).

[Kati]

Re: **DISCONTINUED** PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Yay well done Jaggs xx

[Jaggs]

Re: PCM - IAS - Help needed please

Nice one, Jaggs.

I'll give our @Kati a nudge as well.

Was this case actually allocated to Small Claims? (Rather than just the proposed allocation).

Hello @charitynjw

it was allocated to the county court, Sorry I forgot to post that letter here as I was waiting for them to discontinue it and would have posted that letter a month before the hearing.

The hearing was allocated to November.