VCS/B W Legal Mediation cancelled***Claim Discontinued***

[mosesorcwm]

HI All,

Currently being in the process of being involved in Small Claims Track pursued by B W Legal on behalf of Vehicle Control services for a Parking charge notice.

 

 

We have a strong case as there was a permit on the windscreen (phographic evidence) although car registration was not on permit.

 

 

We agreed to Mediation,

however it was a cancelled and we've been notified that case will be transferred to county court.

 

 

Has anyone any experience of this happening or any advice gratefully accepted.

[BankFodder]

No, I've not heard of this happening before. Maybe somebody else will come along who has.

 

It may help you later on, at least when it comes to the question of costs in the event that you lose the case, that you agree to the mediation and they refused. Especially as they initially appear to have agreed. You will be able to tell the court that VCS needlessly wasted your time and money.

 

However, mediation is generally speaking a waste of time in these situations. Most of these small companies and their solicitors tend to consider mediation as an opportunity to persuade you the litigant in person to surrender some of your rights. Mediation is not about this.

 

Please can you tell us more about the fact that you got a permit on the windscreen but without the car registration number. I'm not clear how it all works. With there normally have been a number?

 

Maybe you could post up the claim form in PDF format and also your defence in PDF format.

[dx100uk]

I've moved you to the private parking forum

that's quite usual

and mediation is not appropriate in these cases any way.

 

 

any chance you can type of the particulars of claim please

and the defence you filed?

 

 

lots of VCS/BW cases here already

they are quite easy to defeat if you've done things properly to date.

[mosesorcwm]

Thank you for replies,however today had letter from b w legal of Notice of Discontiuance .It's a pity they hadn't looked closely at the evidence before taking it thus far

[dx100uk]

brill

 

where was this car park please

 

and what defence did you fil so we can help others with..

and your WS? please?

[ericsbrother]

problem with claiming costs for wasted time regarding mediation is that as an alternative disputes resolution process you can go for this or maybe back to POPLA or the ombudsmanservices adjudication instead.

 

 

None of these have a costs consideration so you there is no comparator you can use that wil give you the argument for recovery of costs.

 

What you do have is a reason for claiming againct VCS for breach of the DPA for unlawfully obtaining and processing your data. They can hardly say that it was lawful or fiar given this debacle.