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Claim Form DCB Legal
By: claude hopper Date: February 3, 2026, 11:52 am
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My husband has received a claim form from a company called DCB
Legal. They are saying his car was parked in a bay outside a
closed-down shop that was previously free, apparently the
parking company is called i-park services Ltd that are now
charging people to park there. He went back and had a look for
signage and there is a small sign high up on a wall, about 7
feet up with tiny writing, saying vehicles must have an e-permit
- not obvious at all. No ticket machines or whatever supplies an
e-permit.
The parking occurred last July and my husband ignored the
letters that arrived. The claim form has only arrived today, it
says it's from Civil National Business Centre and they are
asking for £160. Then a bit further on they are saying it is
£251.52 with costs etc.
We would really appreciate any help and guidance with this
issue. Do we complete the acknowledgement of service and defence
part of the form?
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Re: Claim Form DCB Legal
By: InterCity125 Date: February 3, 2026, 12:07 pm
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Can you post up the original PCN and the Claim document
redacting personal details only - leave dates visible.
Also, what is the location?
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Re: Claim Form DCB Legal
By: DWMB2 Date: February 3, 2026, 1:11 pm
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[quote] We would really appreciate any help and guidance with
this issue. Do we complete the acknowledgement of service and
defence part of the form? [/quote]
A small clarification from the outset. Whilst you might help
your husband, from a legal perspective there is no "we". If the
claim form is addressed to your husband, then he alone is the
one being sued, and all forms etc. must be completed in his
name.
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Re: Claim Form DCB Legal
By: claude hopper Date: February 3, 2026, 2:11 pm
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I'm guessing these links will go to the images of the PCN and
Claim letter. I hope so.
It was Garstang last July. Having googled it, it seems like
loads of people got caught. Of those who appealed the vast
majority were successful due to insufficient signage (it has
since been updated). Also the single time on the notice to
keeper?
My husband isn't too good at sorting stuff out - whereas I can't
let things drop. Hence the 'we' :-)
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Re: Claim Form DCB Legal
By: DWMB2 Date: February 3, 2026, 3:41 pm
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Do you have any images of this shoddy signage?
[quote author=claude hopper link=topic=9792.msg108585#msg108585
date=1770149511]
My husband isn't too good at sorting stuff out - whereas I can't
let things drop. Hence the 'we' :-)
[/quote]
Which is admirable, but I hope you've noted my main point, which
is that everything must be done in his name. We've seen some
cases go wrong where helpful family members have appealed using
their own details and messed cases up. The defence must be in
his name, he'll need to take the mediation phone call (very
quick, nothing to be nervous of), and although there's a very
good chance this will be discontinued, if it were to go to a
hearing, he'd be expected to attend.
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