03-08-2026, 03:57 PM
Never mind. What follows is what you need to send. If the case has not yet been allocated to your local county court then it must go to the CNBC, otherwise your local county court (or wherever it has been allocated).
Having reviewed your WS in the N244 application, that statement now has one material factual problem in it: the sentence saying parking was paid “for the correct vehicle”. As you now knows that is wrong, it needs correcting.
It must not be left sitting there in the hope hope it is not noticed. The point is not just the parking merits. It is credibility. A judge is far more likely to help a defendant who promptly corrects an error than one who lets a false factual assertion stand.
The good news is that this does not destroy the whole N244.
The service of the original claim remains the main point. The core of the application is still that the claim form was served at an old address after you had moved, when reasonable tracing steps should have been taken. CPR 13.2 is still the primary route if service was invalid. CPR 6.9 deals with service at your usual or last known residence, CPR 13.2 requires a default judgment to be set aside if wrongly entered, and CPR 7.5 provides the four-month limit for serving the claim form.
What changes is the fallback merits point under CPR 13.3. You can no longer say the allegation was “plainly wrong” because the payment was not made for the correct VRM. The safer and accurate position is that a parking session was paid for at the material location and time, but the wrong VRM was selected in the app because more than one vehicle was stored on the account. This was not deliberate non-payment. Had the PCN, Letter of Claim or Claim Form been properly served, you would have had the opportunity to explain the error, seek resolution, or pay at a much earlier stage and avoid a CCJ.
What you need to do now is file and serve a short supplemental witness statement (SWS). It does not try to rewrite the whole application. It will simply correct the factual position and explain that the service point remains unchanged.
This is the SWS you should send as a PDF:
If you have not yet received any notice showing that the application has been transferred to your local county court, then the safest course is simply to email the SWS to the CNBC at CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk.
In the same email, you CC in DCB Legal at info@dcblegal.co.uk and also CC yourself so that you have a full record of what was sent and when. If you later receive notice that the matter has already been allocated or transferred to your local county court, then any further documents should be sent there instead.
So, for now, unless and until you have a notice of transfer or allocation, send the Supplemental Witness Statement to: CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk and CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself.
Having reviewed your WS in the N244 application, that statement now has one material factual problem in it: the sentence saying parking was paid “for the correct vehicle”. As you now knows that is wrong, it needs correcting.
It must not be left sitting there in the hope hope it is not noticed. The point is not just the parking merits. It is credibility. A judge is far more likely to help a defendant who promptly corrects an error than one who lets a false factual assertion stand.
The good news is that this does not destroy the whole N244.
The service of the original claim remains the main point. The core of the application is still that the claim form was served at an old address after you had moved, when reasonable tracing steps should have been taken. CPR 13.2 is still the primary route if service was invalid. CPR 6.9 deals with service at your usual or last known residence, CPR 13.2 requires a default judgment to be set aside if wrongly entered, and CPR 7.5 provides the four-month limit for serving the claim form.
What changes is the fallback merits point under CPR 13.3. You can no longer say the allegation was “plainly wrong” because the payment was not made for the correct VRM. The safer and accurate position is that a parking session was paid for at the material location and time, but the wrong VRM was selected in the app because more than one vehicle was stored on the account. This was not deliberate non-payment. Had the PCN, Letter of Claim or Claim Form been properly served, you would have had the opportunity to explain the error, seek resolution, or pay at a much earlier stage and avoid a CCJ.
What you need to do now is file and serve a short supplemental witness statement (SWS). It does not try to rewrite the whole application. It will simply correct the factual position and explain that the service point remains unchanged.
This is the SWS you should send as a PDF:
Quote:IN THE COUNTY COURT
Claim No: M8KF60F5
BETWEEN:
Elite Car Parking Management LtdClaimant
- and -
[Defendant's Full Name]Defendant
SUPPLEMENTARY WITNESS STATEMENT
1. I am the Defendant and I make this supplemental witness statement further to my witness statement dated [date].
2. After submitting my application, I re-checked the JustPark account in more detail. On that review, I discovered that although a parking session was purchased for the material date and location, the session was in fact purchased for the wrong vehicle registration number.
3. I therefore correct paragraph #3 of my earlier witness statement to the extent that it stated that parking had been paid for for the correct vehicle. That was an error, and I apologise to the Court for it.
4. The correct position is that a parking session was paid for at the material location and time, but the wrong VRM was selected within the app. More than one vehicle was stored on the app account, and the wrong one appears to have been selected.
5. This correction does not affect the central basis of my application, namely that I did not receive the Letter of Claim, Claim Form or judgment at my current address, that the claim was served at an address from which I had moved, and that the Claimant failed to take reasonable steps to ascertain my current address before issuing and serving proceedings.
6. Had the claim been properly served, I would have had the opportunity to address the issue concerning the app entry selection and to defend the proceedings in the usual way before default judgment was entered.
7. Save for the correction above, I rely on my earlier witness statement.
Statement of truth
I believe that the facts stated in this Supplementary Witness Statement are true. I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth.
Signed:
Date:
If you have not yet received any notice showing that the application has been transferred to your local county court, then the safest course is simply to email the SWS to the CNBC at CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk.
In the same email, you CC in DCB Legal at info@dcblegal.co.uk and also CC yourself so that you have a full record of what was sent and when. If you later receive notice that the matter has already been allocated or transferred to your local county court, then any further documents should be sent there instead.
So, for now, unless and until you have a notice of transfer or allocation, send the Supplemental Witness Statement to: CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk and CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself.
Quote:Subject: Claim No. M8KF60F5 – Supplemental Witness Statement
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please find attached the Defendant’s Supplemental Witness Statement in Claim No. M8KF60F5 for the Court’s file.
This supplemental statement is filed to correct one factual point in the Defendant’s earlier witness statement. It does not alter the central basis of the Defendant’s application, namely that the default judgment was obtained following invalid service and that the claim form was not validly served within the relevant period.
A copy of this email and the attached supplemental statement is being sent to the Claimant’s solicitors, DCB Legal Ltd, at the same time.
Yours faithfully,
[full name]
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