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#Post#: 96349--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: atousaleila
Date: October 31, 2025, 12:09 pm
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It's asking for "Your Unique Reference". What do I put in there
because it states across from it; "you may wish to enter your
own personal reference for this claim". Do I just make up a name
or something?
#Post#: 96366--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: b789
Date: October 31, 2025, 2:22 pm
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You don't have to put one. If you want to use one, then make
something up. It really doesn't matter.
#Post#: 96606--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: atousaleila
Date: November 3, 2025, 7:04 am
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Hello again,
Just want to check which fee payment the driver needs to apply
for please? It says:
Amount Claimed: £484.60
Court Fee: £50.00
Legal Representative's Costs: £50
Total amount: £584.60
Which fee do I pay on the MCOL website? £70?
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ALSO:
-Should the driver make a Counter Claim? If so, what to add?
-Does the driver who is the defendant, have to put their date of
birth on the form? It is also asking for email address and
contact number.
-Where and how the driver/defendant make the payment as they
can't find the details for that.
Apologies for asking so many questions.
#Post#: 96608--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: jfollows
Date: November 3, 2025, 7:23 am
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You do not pay anything, the court fee is paid by the claimant.
You do not make a counterclaim.
Why do you think you have to pay if someone else is taking you
to court?
#Post#: 96622--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: atousaleila
Date: November 3, 2025, 8:59 am
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Thank you for your response.
Also thank you to all the HEROES on here who have been
incredibly helpful and patient with my queries.
I couldn't have done this without everyone's help :)
The driver/defendant has submitted their MCOL online. The
question is, what happens next?
#Post#: 96627--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: b789
Date: November 3, 2025, 9:35 am
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You will receive a letter from DCB Legal that says their client
intends to continue and it will include a copy of their N180
Directions Questionnaire. Just file it. You can check your MCOL
history and when it shows that your won DQ has been send, just
follow this advice:
--- Quote ---
> Having received your own N180 (make sure it is not simply a
copy of the claimants N180) or been notified on MCOL that yours
has been sent, do not use the paper form. Ignore all the other
forms that came with it. you can discard those. Download your
own N180 DQ here and fill it in on your computer. You sign it by
simply typing your full name in the signature box.
>
>
HTML https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673341e779e9143625613543/N180_1124.pdf
>
> Here are the answers to some of the less obvious questions:
>
> [indent]• The name of the court is "Civil National Business
Centre".
>
> • To be completed by "Your full name" and you are the
"Defendant".
>
> • C1: "YES"
>
> • D1: "NO". Reason: "I wish to question the Claimant about
their evidence at a hearing in person and to expose omissions
and any misleading or incorrect evidence or assertions.
> Given the Claimant is a firm who complete cut & paste parking
case paperwork for a living, having this case heard solely on
papers would appear to put the Claimant at an unfair advantage,
especially as they would no doubt prefer the Defendant not to
have the opportunity to expose the issues in the Claimants
template submissions or speak as the only true witness to events
in question.."
>
> • F1: Whichever is your nearest county court. Use this to find
it:
HTML https://www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk/search-option
>
> • F3: "1".
>
> • Sign the form by simply typing your full name for the
signature.[/indent]
>
> When you have completed the form, attach it to a single email
addressed to both dq.cnbc[member=6517]justice[/member].gov.uk
and info@dcblegal.co.uk and CC in yourself. Make sure that the
claim number is in the subject field of the email.
--- End Quote ---
#Post#: 96986--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: atousaleila
Date: November 5, 2025, 3:16 pm
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Ok wow thank you so very much! I'm speechless by your wealth of
knowledge on this! Driver has received a letter from HM Courts &
Tribunals Service (please see attachment) HOWEVER driver hasn't
received any letters from DCB Legal nor the N180 Directions
Questionnaire. Also driver checked on MCOL website and didn't
see anything there as yet. Does the driver wait until DCB Legal
send them the N180?
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#Post#: 96991--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: b789
Date: November 5, 2025, 3:52 pm
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You will eventually receive everything mentioned. What you have
show is simply the first step in the process. What you don't
know is when the CNBC sent DCB Legal the copy of your defence.
When they do receive it, they will send you a boilerplate reply
telling you that their client intends to continue and they will
include a copy of their own N180, which you just file for
reference.
#Post#: 100598--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: atousaleila
Date: December 1, 2025, 3:48 pm
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Driver received an email today from dcb legal and the "N180"
DIRECTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE saying:
Good Morning
Having reviewed the content of your defence, we write to inform
you that our client intends to proceed with the claim.
In due course, the Court will direct both parties to each file a
directions questionnaire. In preparation for that, please find
attached a copy of the Claimant's, which we confirm has been
filed with the Court.
Without Prejudice to the above, in order to assist the Court in
achieving its overriding objective, our client may be prepared
to settle this case - in the event you wish to discuss
settlement, please call us on 0203 434 0433 within 7 days and
make immediate reference to this correspondence.
If you have provided an email address within your Defence, we
intend to use it for service of documents (usually in PDF
format) hereon in pursuant
to PD 6A (4.1)(2)(c). Please advise whether there are any
limitations to this (for example, the format in which documents
are to be sent and the maximum size of attachments that may be
received). Unless you advise otherwise, we will assume not.
Kind Regards,
Litigation Support
DCB Legal Ltd
Tel: 0203 838 7038
How does the Driver respond please? How far is this going?
Driver is worried that he/she end up incurring massive debts.
Driver doesn't know how to fill out the form and not sure if
they should email it back to bulklitigation@dcblegal.co.uk or
post it but to where?! The N180 attachment is enclosed too. It
also states:
"Once you have completed this form, please return it to the
court at the address shown on the form N149A Notice of proposed
allocation to Small Claims Track.
You must also send a copy of this form (N180 Directions
questionnaire) to each of the other
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#Post#: 100666--------------------------------------------------
Re: Received LETTER OF CLAIM. Please advise!!!
DIR By: b789
Date: December 2, 2025, 7:24 am
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For heavens sake... stop panicking! What you have received is
all normal boilerplate stuff. It is not YOUR N180 DQ, it is a
copy of the Claimants N180 DQ.
I have already assured you that if you follow the advice you
will not be paying a penny to ECP, yet you appear to be
convincing yourself that your are somehow going to be "incurring
massive debts". Where do you even get that misconception from?
Even if you were to actually gp to trial (which you definitely
won't) and lost, you would end up paying less than the original
claim amount because the fake added debt recovery cost is never
allowed.
How far is this going to go? It is going to go all the way to
your local county court and once they have allocated a date for
the hearing, four weeks before that is the deadline for the
claimant to pay the £27 trial fee. Just before this date,
whenever that is, you will receive an N279 Notice of
Discontinuation and that will be the end of the matter.
So, you can either be low-hanging fruit on the gullible tree
that is easily intimidated to pay up out of ignorance and fear
or you can follow the advice being given here and pay nothing
and also educate yourself out of the unfounded fears you are
expressing.
Now, back to the N180 DQ... You can check your MCOL history to
see when your own N180 has been issued or just wait to receive
it in the post. Having received your own N180 (make sure it is
not simply a copy of the claimants N180) or been notified on
MCOL that yours has been sent, do not use the paper form. Ignore
all the other forms that came with it. you can discard those.
Download your own N180 DQ here and fill it in on your computer.
You sign it by simply typing your full name in the signature
box.
HTML https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673341e779e9143625613543/N180_1124.pdf
Here are the answers to some of the less obvious questions:
[indent]• The name of the court is "Civil National Business
Centre".
• To be completed by "Your full name" and you are the
"Defendant".
• C1: "YES"
• D1: "NO". Reason: "I wish to question the Claimant about their
evidence at a hearing in person and to expose omissions and any
misleading or incorrect evidence or assertions.
Given the Claimant is a firm who complete cut & paste parking
case paperwork for a living, having this case heard solely on
papers would appear to put the Claimant at an unfair advantage,
especially as they would no doubt prefer the Defendant not to
have the opportunity to expose the issues in the Claimants
template submissions or speak as the only true witness to events
in question.."
• F1: Whichever is your nearest county court. Use this to find
it:
HTML https://www.find-court-tribunal.service.gov.uk/search-option
• F3: "1".
• Sign the form by simply typing your full name for the
signature.[/indent]
When you have completed the form, attach it to a single email
addressed to both dq.cnbc[member=6517]justice[/member].gov.uk
and [claimant to their legal representative]and CC in yourself.
Make sure that the claim number is in the subject field of the
email.
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