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Re: UKPC PARKING CHARGE - BURNLEY BIRTH CENTRE BURNLEY HOSPITAL
DIR By: nothavingthis
Date: March 23, 2025, 6:16 am
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Hi all, thank you for all the information. I have decided to not
make any payment and see where it leads from the advice you guys
have given. As long as i have yourselves on my side for help and
advice i will take it all the way :)
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> [member=636]jfollows[/member], there are no "fines" involved
in civil litigation. The county court cannot and will not impose
any "fine" as this has nothing to do with statutory law and
penalties.
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> If this ever gets to court and all the way to a hearing
(unlikely), the county court is simply the ultimate dispute
resolution service. The operator (the claimant) says you owe
them a debt. You say you don't. A judge will hear the arguments
of both sides and based on the facts, will decide whether you
owe the debt or not. It is as simple as that. Even if you were
to be unsuccessful, it is highly likely that you would pay less
than the amount claimed, because extra costs and damages are not
allowed in the small claims track of the county court. That is
why it is known as the "small claims" court.
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> So, court in this sense is nothing to do with criminal law.
That is for higher courts such as the magistrates court, high
court and above. This is simply a way to settle claims over an
alleged debt and you don't have a debt until a judge says you
do.
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> For anyone with an overactive imagination and thoughts about
the Old Bailey, wigs and gowns, here is a short video to explain
how a small-claims hearing is conducted in the county court:
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HTML https://youtu.be/n93eoaxhzpU?feature=shared
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Re: UKPC PARKING CHARGE - BURNLEY BIRTH CENTRE BURNLEY HOSPITAL
DIR By: b789
Date: March 23, 2025, 6:26 am
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One thing I can tell you is that a claim made by UKPC, issued
through DCB Legal, as long as it is defended, no matter how
feeble the defence, will be discontinued. I say that with
greater than 99.9% certainty.
DCB Legal has a modus operandi of issuing a claim and taking it
all the way to the hearing payment date and then discontinuing.
They do this because there are tens of thousands of these claims
(we estimate up to 100,000 from this one bulk litigator alone)
where the defendant either poops their pants at the first sign
of litigation nd pays up out of ignorance and fear and then
there are all the others that have no clue how to actually deal
with a claim and simply bury their heads in the sand and end up
with default CCJs which, again, in their ignorance, end up
paying in the hope that their credit record will recover without
understanding that a 'satisfied' CCJ is only about one degree
less financially painful than an unsatisfied one.
So, for DCB Legal, the cost of £35 (for claims under £300) to
issue a claim (and we believe that as a "superuser" of the MCOL,
they may be actually be getting a discount from HMCTS and is
subject to a FoI request at the moment) is insignificant in the
greater scheme of things. In other words, issuing a claim and
then discontinuing is a loss leader for DCB Legal.
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