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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: kgw Date: December 13, 2025, 6:32 am
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Confusing indeed. Thanks for reminding me. I've edited my
previous post.
Let's see if they now go for the hearing. By the way, they still
have not sent the contract or any evidence in support of their
claim.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: b789 Date: December 13, 2025, 7:09 am
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It is not "they go for the hearing". In due course, the case
will be transferred to your local county court and a procedural
judge will assign a hearing date and other deadlines. One of
those deadlines is for them to pay the £27 trial fee, around 4
weeks before the hearing date. It is just before this deadline
to pay the trial fee that they will issue an N279 Notice of
Discontinuance and it will be over.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: kgw Date: January 1, 2026, 2:49 am
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Hi and happy new year to all! [img width=23
height=23]
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HMCTS is busy on new year's eve. MCOL now says "You filed a DQ
on 31/12/2025" (even though it was sent acknowledged on the
13th) and I've received a Mediation Appointment Confirmation for
18 Feb which I need to reply to by providing a phone number.
The confirmation email says:
"The mediator will call both parties separately – you will not
talk directly to the other side. They will try to help you come
to an agreement with the other party. If an agreement is reached
at mediation the case will not need to progress to court.
Where your mediation appointment is mandatory, if you do not
attend the appointment, the judge will take this into
consideration at any court hearing and may issue a penalty. This
could include the judge automatically ruling in the other
party’s favour or ordering you to pay for some or all the other
party’s costs."
The mediation does not appear to be classified as mandatory but
I'll answer the call I suppose, although I'm not sure what to
expect from this mediation.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: jfollows Date: January 1, 2026, 2:58 am
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Mediation is mandatory, per Section A on the N180 you submitted,
but it’s pointless, you will offer £0 to settle and your offer
won’t be accepted and that’s that.
Search the forum for lots of examples.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: b789 Date: January 1, 2026, 9:17 am
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For the mediation call, the only requirement is for you "attend"
the call. It is not part of the judicial process and no judge is
involved.
This is what I advise you to say when you receive the call from
the mediator:
“Before I set out my position, please confirm from the
claimant’s side:[/I]
[indent][I]• the full name of the person attending for them;
• their role/position at their legal representative’s firm; and
• whether they hold written authority to negotiate and settle
today.[/indent]
Please relay that back to me before we continue.”
After the mediator calls back...
If identified and authority confirmed:
[indent]“Thank you. I’m content to proceed on that basis. My
settlement offer is £0, or I invite the claimant to discontinue
with no order as to costs.”[/indent]
If no/unclear authority:
[indent]“Please record that the claimant’s attendee has not
confirmed settlement authority. My position remains that
liability is denied and my offer is £0, subject to prompt
approval by an authorised solicitor if they choose to
discontinue.”[/indent]
If the mediator probes your defence:
[indent]”[I]In what capacity are you asking that question? Are
you legally trained? If not, please refrain from offering
opinions. I will be reporting any attempt to do so as
inappropriate[/I].”[/indent]
All you need to know is the name and the position of the person
acting for the claimant and report that back to us. It will be
over within minutes. Complete waste of time otherwise.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: kgw Date: January 1, 2026, 10:52 am
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Thank you for clarifying the fact that there can be
back-and-forth phone calls between both parties.
I will attempt to get the details of Parkmaven's attendee during
the actual phone call but, having searched the forum for
mediation examples, I ran into a complaint reply by HMCTS which
read:
"The mediator’s role is to confirm that each person taking part
has authority to settle the claim, which was done during your
appointment. While I appreciate that you feel that the
claimant’s representative should have identified themselves,
there is no requirement for them to do this, and the mediator
cannot make the parties share their personal details."
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: b789 Date: January 1, 2026, 3:24 pm
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Do't overthink this. The mediation is not part of the judicial
process. You will get nowhere by trying to get the claimant to
offer any evidence etc. That is left to the Witness Statement
stage, which this will never reach if you follow the advice.
The mediation call is a commute waste of everyones time and if
you follow the advice I have already given you, this will be
over in less that 5 minutes.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: AlexDove Date: January 2, 2026, 4:58 am
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[quote author=b789 link=topic=4677.msg104223#msg104223
date=1767280621]
For the mediation call, the only requirement is for you "attend"
the call. It is not part of the judicial process and no judge is
involved.
This is what I advise you to say when you receive the call from
the mediator:
“Before I set out my position, please confirm from the
claimant’s side:
[indent]• the full name of the person attending for them;
• their role/position at their legal
representative’s firm; and
• whether they hold written authority to negotiate and
settle today.[/indent]
Please relay that back to me before we continue.”
After the mediator calls back...
If identified and authority confirmed:
[indent]“Thank you. I’m content to proceed on that
basis. My settlement offer is £0, or I invite the claimant to
discontinue with no order as to costs.”[/indent]
If no/unclear authority:
[indent]“Please record that the claimant’s attendee
has not confirmed settlement authority. My position remains that
liability is denied and my offer is £0, subject to prompt
approval by an authorised solicitor if they choose to
discontinue.”[/indent]
If the mediator probes your defence:
[indent]”In what capacity are you asking that question?
Are you legally trained? If not, please refrain from offering
opinions. I will be reporting any attempt to do so as
inappropriate.”[/indent]
All you need to know is the name and the position of the person
acting for the claimant and report that back to us. It will be
over within minutes. Complete waste of time otherwise.
[/quote]
Hi Guys,
I have received an e-mail notifying me that I will have a
mediation call today 02/01/2026 between 13:30-16:30, at the end
of November but I have failed to reply to
scmreferrals[member=6517]justice[/member].gov.uk with my tel
number and whatever else was required, or at least I forgot if I
replied or did not find the e-mail in my sent items. Can I still
reply now or I am wasting my time and I am going to get a
penalty anyway?
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: jfollows Date: January 2, 2026, 5:50 am
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What did you write in the N180 you submitted? You should have
provided your telephone number in this and it’s the one which
will be used for the mediation call.
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Re: Parkmaven NtK and unsuccessful appeal
By: AlexDove Date: January 2, 2026, 8:03 am
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Yes I did provide my tel number.
I have also called a tel number provided by them in the
mediation call appointment email to confirm that the mediation
call will take place and they confirmed it, they also asked me
to confirm my tel number so all good.
Thank you very much for all your answers, I tried my best to
check all previous posts for information as I am aware that most
people ask mostly the same questions.
Thank you again for your help!
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