Claim form received from two alleged contraventions 3 years ago - SMART PARKING

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It's another dubious claim issued by the incompetents at DCB Legal. As I have said in other cases involving them, I will eat my hat if this ever gets as far as a hearing. In the overwhelming majority of claims issued by DCB Legal, they are discontinued just before they have to pay the Trial fee. However, we have to go through the motions.

In the meantime, get the AoS submitted. Also, you need to send a Subject Access Request (SAR) to the Data Protection Officer (DPO) of (not so) Smart Parking. The claim is for two PCNs and you have only shown their evidence of a single alleged contravention.

Send the following email to dpo@smartparking.com and CC yourself. Attach a copy of your V5C front pageant also include a copy of the N1SDT Claim Form page with the PoC.

Subject: Subject Access Request – Smart Parking Ltd / DCB Legal claim / two PCNs

Dear Smart Parking Ltd Data Protection Officer,

I am writing to make a formal subject access request under Article 15 UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Your company has issued a County Court claim against me through DCB Legal in respect of two alleged Parking Charge Notices. I do not have copies of the original notices and I have no proper knowledge of the basis of the claim. I require full disclosure of all personal data you hold about me in relation to these matters.

For identification and search purposes, my details are as follows:

Name: [DEFENDANT FULL NAME]

Current address: [CURRENT ADDRESS]

Previous address used by Smart Parking Ltd: [OLD ADDRESS]

Vehicle registration: X15RAK

Claimant: Smart Parking Ltd

Legal representative: DCB Legal Ltd

County Court claim number: [CLAIM NUMBER]

Claim issue date: 6 May 2026

Alleged PCN contravention dates stated in the Particulars of Claim: 8 January 2023 and 23 April 2023

Location stated in the Particulars of Claim: Callingham House, London

Please provide copies of all personal data relating to me, the above vehicle, the above claim, and the two alleged PCNs, including but not limited to:

1. Copies of both original Parking Charge Notices/Notices to Keeper.

2. Copies of all letters, notices, reminders, debt recovery letters, pre-action letters, or other correspondence sent by Smart Parking Ltd, its agents, debt collectors, or legal representatives.

3. The full case history/PCN history logs for both PCNs, including all internal notes, status changes, timestamps, audit trail entries and system records.

4. All photographs, ANPR images, handheld-device images, CCTV images or other images relied upon.

5. The alleged entry and exit times, observation times, ANPR records, payment-machine records, permit records, whitelist records, exemption records, and any other data said to support the alleged contraventions.

6. All data obtained from the DVLA, including the date of each DVLA request, the address returned, the reason code used, the KADOE enquiry record and any associated audit trail.

7. All records showing when and how my data was passed to any third party, including DCB Legal, any debt recovery agent, tracing agent, mailing house, print provider, litigation service provider or other processor.

8. Copies of any correspondence, instructions, data files or case referrals sent to or received from DCB Legal.

9. Any data relating to address tracing, address verification, returned mail, address updates or decisions to continue writing to a previous address.

10. Any appeal records, portal records, payment records, notes of telephone calls, emails, webform submissions or online account records connected with either PCN.

11. A copy of any contract, authority, site record, sign record, map, or evidence pack document if it contains my personal data, my vehicle registration, images of my vehicle, or is otherwise held against my case file.

12. The categories of personal data processed, the purposes of processing, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data has been disclosed, the envisaged retention period, and the source of the data where it was not obtained directly from me.

For the avoidance of doubt, this request is not limited to documents you currently intend to rely upon in the claim. It covers all personal data held by Smart Parking Ltd and by any processor, agent, contractor, debt collector or legal representative acting on your behalf in relation to these two PCNs and the County Court claim.

I enclose/attach a copy of my current V5C showing my current address. I can also provide a copy of the Claim Form if required. These documents, together with the details above, are sufficient to identify me and locate the relevant records.

Please do not delay this request by asking for unnecessary additional identification or asking me to provide PCN reference numbers that are already within your possession. You have already identified me sufficiently to issue a County Court claim through DCB Legal, and the claim itself identifies the two PCNs by date and location. If you consider that any further information is genuinely necessary before you can comply, please explain precisely what information is required, why it is necessary, and why the information already provided is insufficient.

The statutory one-month period for compliance begins upon receipt of this request. Please provide the data electronically by return email.

Yours faithfully,

[DEFENDANT FULL NAME]

If we get a response before the defence deadline, then good, otherwise I will have to draft a more generic defence as the PoC are woefully inadequate.