Need to sue my local authority for various reasons???

[Snooki64]

Re: Need to sue my local authority for various reasons???

Hi all i am going to try and upload the Ombudsman draught decision and answer your questions. Oooops cant seem to do it? I have emailed kati@legalbeagles.info for help. hopefully i can get it on later?
to answer some questions the bailiffs came on the day, no notice of this visit was received. the first we knew of the visit was when he knocked on the door, the car was already clamped when he knocked, he was informed that my daughter was off work long term sick with mental health problems, his response was " not my problem". My daughter asked if they could come to a payment arrangement and was told no, the full amount of around £3,000 had to be paid that day. They were asked to remove the clamp and said no, there was a disturbance with my neighbors and the bailiff said he felt threatened by myself and my daughter and called the police. i did get annoyed with him but i told him he should remove the clamp before i got back as i needed to go out . When i got back home the police were at my house, the police told me i would be arrested if i tried to interfere with the clamp. My daughter was nothing but polite and helpful to him when trying to organize some kind of payment. We also have some CCTV footage of the whole incident. Hope this helps with some of the questions? I have a blue badge on my car, but my doesnt have a blue badge as her condition is not physical. Thanks very much.

[Snooki64]

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Hi all i am going to try and upload the Ombudsman draught decision and answer your questions. Oooops cant seem to do it? I have emailed kati@legalbeagles.info for help. hopefully i can get it on later?
to answer some questions the bailiffs came on the day, no notice of this visit was received. the first we knew of the visit was when he knocked on the door, the car was already clamped when he knocked, he was informed that my daughter was off work long term sick with mental health problems, his response was " not my problem". My daughter asked if they could come to a payment arrangement and was told no, the full amount of around £3,000 had to be paid that day. They were asked to remove the clamp and said no, there was a disturbance with my neighbors and the bailiff said he felt threatened by myself and my daughter and called the police. i did get annoyed with him but i told him he should remove the clamp before i got back as i needed to go out . When i got back home the police were at my house, the police told me i would be arrested if i tried to interfere with the clamp. My daughter was nothing but polite and helpful to him when trying to organize some kind of payment. We also have some CCTV footage of the whole incident. Hope this helps with some of the questions? I have a blue badge on my car, but my daughter doesnt have a blue badge as her condition is not physical. Thanks very much.

[oldbadger]

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My daughter asked if they could come to a payment arrangement and was told no, the full amount of around £3,000 had to be paid that day..........................................

£3000...? I'm sorry. I thought this was about a couple of parking fines. Your first post mentioned:

Around 18 months ago a Bailiff company came and took my daughters car for a couple of unpaid parking fines,.....................

..... has this escalated to £3000 from parking fines?
Or have other issues been added to this case?

Sorry....... I'm only asking.

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[Snooki64]

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5 parking tickets and its escalated to this amount.

[R0b]

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Hi Snooki, I'm afraid I am extremely busy over the next 24 hours but I could take a stab at drafting some appeal/response over the weekend if no one else has done so already.

Could you just confirm when you appealed to council what reasons did they give for justifying the bailiffs and not instructing them to remove the clamp?

Also the Ombudman's report would be useful if you have already emailed [MENTION=49370]Kati[/MENTION] maybe she can upload this?

[Kati]

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I haven't received anything yet Snooki ... could you send it again please??

[stevemLS]

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Regrettably I still can't see a cause of action against the council.

For 5 parking tickets to escalate to £3k this must have been going on for some considerable time and been through any number of enforcement steps? Have you/your daughter engaged in the process or have you just ignored everything?

[Snooki64]

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Kati thank you, I will try attach the documents to your email but obviously you didn't receive anything before, hope this works. Also thank-you so much to ROb for your help. 😁

[Snooki64]

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Hi kati just to let you know I have emailed you the ombudsman draught decision, hopefully you will receive them?
ROb I would be so grateful if you could help me with my reply to the ombudsman draught decision? I have also found some paperwork/ care plans, concerning my daughters mental health from her past history which shows she has suffered with mental illness for years, since she was a child, I thought maybe I could send these to the ombudsman as she says there is no evidence of her mental health problems? Thank you so much.

[wales01man]

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Were the Council or Bailiffs ever provided with proof of her condition your word would mean nothing to them proof would have needed to be provided as son as any action began

[Kati]

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docs:

[Snooki64]

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Hi wales01man, I supplied them with a doctors letter, but this is odviously not good enough? I have only just managed to find this old paperwork from around 2005/2006 as I've moved since then, but it explains her difficulties, its from the psychiatrist she was seeing at the time and explains her ongoing problems, with anxiety and depression. She has been receiving care since she was 7 years old. It's hard to remember exactly what I have supplied to them as this has been going on for 18 months and to get any documents to them is difficult, I could only hand them in to the reception of a huge building with no guarantee that they will arrive at the correct dept. I have taken so many letters in to them and I have lost count of what I have given?Its just so hard to concentrate on just one thing going on in my life, while caring for my daughter and her difficulties, but the ombudsman hasn't seen any of it because she told me she would ask the council for copies of all their evidence of her illness, if they did receive anything from me? They did not forward it to the ombudsman? There is lots of medical history which I do not have access to paperwork of. I can't begin to know where to start to prove all the professionals she has seen in her life as we have lived in quite a few areas, we have also had housing problems, its all very complicated to explain. Thanks so much for your interest and help.

[wales01man]

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Youmust have a good case against the Council they should have logged all the documents you gave

[Snooki64]

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Yes they should have, but before the ombudsman was involved I got ignored majorly, I still dnt know what they have and haven't received?? Also people think that these organizations do everything by the book, but this is not always the case. I took documents to them yesterday and asked reception to ring the dept to come and collect the documents personally so I know they have been received, I was told no they dnt have the time it has to be done in the normal way, I can only hope that these documents get to them as they have also given me strict deadlines! ☺

[stevemLS]

Re: Need to sue my local authority for various reasons???

Once again, having looked at the decision of the LGO, I don't think you have a leg to stand on, nil, zero.

This is now, from what I can gather 173 PCNs, of which 163 have been written off. It seems to me you are taking the mick.

The LGO seems to fully and carefully considered the case and decided against you.