County Court Claim for PCN - Defence help needed

[Sarge25]

I have received a notice of county court claim issued from a specialist in legal recovery. I have submitted an acknowledgement of service which gives me until 18/01/21 to submit a defence. I have never had any dealings with legal matters before and would like some help if possible. Info has been uploaded.
I have looked at the template, is this relevant to consumer credit only rather than parking defence?

[Sarge25]

I have looked at the defence template on here, but is this relevant to consumer credit only rather than parking defence?

[ostell]

Now that you have acknowledged service you have the lesser of 28 days from the acknowledgement or 33 days from the date of issue to get your defence to the court

Post up the Notice to Keeper you received suitably redacted but leave dates.

SAR to NCP for everything they hold about you and your car

CPR 31.14 request to the solicitors

Templates in the Shortcuts panel on this page

[Sarge25]

The notice to keeper was attached on #1
I've completed the SAR and received the information back.

[Sarge25]

ostell the claim form is also attached can you please tell me what date my defence needs to be issued to the court?

[ostell]

ostell the claim form is also attached can you please tell me what date my defence needs to be issued to the court?

I don't know what date you acknowledged. You have the calculation in post #3, worst case is 12th Jan, 4 days time when it has to be received by the court. Signed PDF attachment to an email to the court.

You haven't loaded the Notice to Keeper, you've loaded the Letter before claim.

The defence template shows you roughly what it should look like but you add in your own details, details we have absolutely no knowledge about

[Sarge25]

I acknowledged on Monday 4th January 2021. The claim form was not received through the post until 23/12/20.

[Sarge25]

I cannot find the Notice to Keeper, I have disregarded it.

I have attached the CC claim form in #5 and the CPR 31.14 request to the solicitors here, could you please check it's how it should be?

[ostell]

The CPR goes to the SOLICITOR!! Please read the instructions

So in the information you have received back from the SAR is there a Notice to Keeper?

[Sarge25]

The notice to keep is attached. I did the SAR to NCP. in regards to the CPR BW Legal are the solicitor

[ostell]

In the first instance they have not delivered the Notice to keeper within the relevant period of 14 days and therefore cannot transfe4r liability form the driver at the time to the keeper. Post on day 14 is insufficient. The 10th of Jan 2020 is a Friday so the Notice is deemed delivered 2 working days later, Tuesday 14th, some 18 days later. Shame this was not handled at the time. No indication of the driver please. The keeper cannot recollect the identity of the driver on that uneventful day over a year ago.

There is no required period of parking, moving in front of a camera cannot, by definition be parking. Driving around in the car park is not parking, See this page.

Have you got details of the signs?