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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: b789
Date: October 6, 2025, 8:45 am
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Not quite in that order:
1. Claimant acknowledges receipt of your defence, tells you
their client intends to proceed and sends you a copy of their
N180 Directions Questionnaire
2. You submit your own N180
3. Mandatory mediation call (about 5 minutes or less)
4. Case allocated to your local court
5. Local court gives 'directions' and possibly strikes out the
claim
6. If #5 does not get the claim struck out, then DCB Legal
discontinues before the payment due date
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: DearyDiora
Date: November 10, 2025, 10:13 am
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Good day,
Thank you for the clarity on the above list of steps.
Seems I received an email (below) from DCBLegal litigation dated
03.11.2025 (it went to junk and I've only picked up on it).
"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".
Here is the claimant's N180 attached to the email I
received:-(REDACTED address details, claim No, etc).
HTML https://ibb.co/676jpMtL
I would greatly appreciate if you could review this and confirm
what I should respond.
Kind Regards
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: b789
Date: November 11, 2025, 10:02 am
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No need for us to see that. It is all boilerplate stuff. Just
follow this advice regarding your own N180 Directions
Questionnaire:
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.
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: DearyDiora
Date: November 28, 2025, 10:43 pm
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Hi
Thank you so much for the above advice and guidance; it is very
much appreciated.
I have completed the N180 form just now and sent as per your
instructions to the court and DCB Legal.
In the meantime, I have had a voice mail left by DCB Legal,
suggesting that they would like to reach out to discuss matters
to do with the case. I'm going to be away aboard from today,
with limited access to my emails due to extensive travel.
What do you advise regards a phone discussion please?
Thank you in advice and ongoing support.
I eagerly will await your further guidance.
Kind Regards.
Noreen
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: jfollows
Date: November 28, 2025, 11:55 pm
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Do not have a telephone discussion with anyone, especially not
DCB Legal. Hang up if they call you and block their number.
Everything in writing, post or email.
They have form for offering to “settle” for a lower amount than
they previously demanded, but this is simply a precursor to
discontinuing as has been said earlier. Reply #20
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: DearyDiora
Date: February 7, 2026, 6:48 am
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Dear [member=26]b789[/member] [member=636]jfollows[/member]
Thank you both for your kind advice and instructions on how to
proceed. I am since back from travelling and note an email from
HM Courts & Tribunals Service relating to my claim No.
Mediation telephone appointment set for 9th February 2026
(09:30am-12.30pm).
On my submitted N9B from (Defence and Counterclaim), I entered
the details advised.
I have also ignored calls as mentioned from UKPC legal team
during the period of receiving the above mediation appointment.
Could you kindly advise me on putting together a summary of main
points that I can present to the mediator please, along side
negotiating options?
Below points taken from form attached to my email from HM Courts
& Tribunals Service:-
"You will need to briefly explain your claim or defence to the
mediator. You should prepare for yourself a brief summary of the
main points".
"You’re attending mediation with a view to settling your case.
This means negotiating to overcome disputed issues".
"Building an agreement and reaching a settlement".
I look forward to receiving your advice to carry this forward
ready for Monday 9th February 2026 mediation call.
Thank you in advance for all your help, it is truly appreciated
and valued.
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Kind Regards,
Deary Diora
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: jfollows
Date: February 7, 2026, 6:54 am
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Please search the forum for “mediation”, there is a lot of
advice already available.
Do not discuss your defence, offer £0 to settle and it will be
over.
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: DearyDiora
Date: February 7, 2026, 7:13 am
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Hi,
Thank you, I have managed to find a recent mediation summary
from [member=26]b789[/member] dated January 2026 as below which
i'll utilise
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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:
• 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.
Please relay that back to me before we continue.”
After the mediator calls back...
If identified and authority confirmed:
“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.”
If no/unclear authority:
“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.”
If the mediator probes your defence:
”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.”
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.
I'll return to the thread in due-course with any further update
to the case
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: DearyDiora
Date: February 9, 2026, 5:01 am
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Hi,
Hope all is well
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Further to my previous update, I have since had the mediation
meeting this morning.
Please find below details requested as for whom was representing
from DCB Legal team today.
• the full name of the person attending for them; PAVAN KHALSA
• their role/position at their legal representative’s firm; and
DCB LEGAL
• whether they hold written authority to negotiate and settle
today. YES
DCB made a settlement offer of "£150" at today's mtg.
Stating their position as:-
- Still pursuing the claim.
- Photo’s of car with no Blue Badge (BB).
- Left side of car was not parked straight within the bay
(partially in the grid markings).
- There was clear signage on display within the car park.
I continued with:-
"My settlement offer is £0, or I invite the claimant to
discontinue with no order as to costs".
I added to my position that I had made an appeal to UKPC upon
notification of the PCN. Providing evidence of my BB and
confirming the bay markings/signage in the car park were unclear
/ created doubt, as to whether the bay was in fact a BB bay.
Nevertheless, I provided photo's of my BB as evidence of status
and reasons in the appeal; to which several months had past
without any further correspondence received, therefore I had no
reason to believe the case was ongoing. I only came to formally
know the claimant was pursuing when I received the formal letter
stating for court intervention; unless we settled as to their
(disproportionate) sums of costs.
Mediator concluded with permission from me as to mediation
marked as ‘NOT SETTLED TODAY’.
He went on to to say a letter will come through in the post in
due-course for a hearing date in the future; court waiting time
is currently back-logged.
[member=26]b789[/member] [member=636]jfollows[/member]
Please, is there anything further to prepare ahead of the date /
should I expect DCB Legal to be in contact to settle the claim
hereafter / if so, what do you advise here pls?
As always, your guidance and advise is most appreciated.
Kind Regards,
DearyDiora
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Re: Pls help draft urgent defense to County Court Claim -Beckton
DIR By: jfollows
Date: February 9, 2026, 5:07 am
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Come back here with the letter of allocation to your local
court, showing dates by which the claimant has to pay the court
fee and when both parties have to file witness statements.
If the WS dates are later than the payment date, DCB Legal will
usually discontinue before paying, however they call you to try
and “settle” in the meantime, do not answer them and block their
number if you can.
Reply #20:
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> 1. Claimant acknowledges receipt of your defence, tells you
their client intends to proceed and sends you a copy of their
N180 Directions Questionnaire
> 2. You submit your own N180
> 3. Mandatory mediation call (about 5 minutes or less)
> 4. Case allocated to your local court
> 5. Local court gives 'directions' and possibly strikes out the
claim
> 6. If #5 does not get the claim struck out, then DCB Legal
discontinues before the payment due date
--- End Quote ---
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