06-11-2026, 02:30 PM
Yeha no problem.
The firts thing is that i was 30 minutes late as I arrived at the wrong court. This was error on my part caused by a hectic few days after some really bad family news on friday. I read the wrong court letter.
I arrived at the right court, shook hands with the solictor for DCB and we went straight in. She was quite quiet and tbh she was quite nice.
I apologised to the judge who seemed totally unbothered and got right down to business.
He said you both agree on the set aside but you want the case struck out (I mentioned and costs covered here I think). He said very well what proof do you have - I dont see any evidence.
I mentioned the JM1-5 exhibits which it turns out I had also sent to the wrong court too (Edmonton rather than Clerkenwell & Shoreditch). I'd printed it all out and brought 3 copies too but he said that I couldnt use them without prior submission. I said that they had definitly been emailed to the claimant.
In the end he asked how can you prove that you changed your address and what date - I said I had a print out of the drivers licence with the date - he didnt realise that contained the date and took the print out i had with me.
After that he turned to the claimant and asked what the address trace they referred to actually was and she couldnt answer. He warned her not to introduce new evidence and then got fed up with her stumbling and turned to me and said I'm going to strike this out as the driving licence shows that this man changed his address at the earliest opportunity and that you sent the claim against the old address even though the dvla had the new address.
He said he didnt believe for a second that I didnt receive the original ticket and that I wouldnt have a leg to stand on if they had served the claim against the right address for the court proceedings. Although he did also say that he appreciated my honesty with admitting that I got the wrong car when i paid for the parking and admitted that in my later witness statement.
I didnt ask about costs at this time as I didnt want to upset him or ask a silly question and he seemed quite cross and eager to get finished. I know thats silly but it's quite a strange experience all in all.
Hope that helps give a bit of insight.
Yes I learned a lot although Im not particularly keen to repeat the experience any time soon ha
The firts thing is that i was 30 minutes late as I arrived at the wrong court. This was error on my part caused by a hectic few days after some really bad family news on friday. I read the wrong court letter.
I arrived at the right court, shook hands with the solictor for DCB and we went straight in. She was quite quiet and tbh she was quite nice.
I apologised to the judge who seemed totally unbothered and got right down to business.
He said you both agree on the set aside but you want the case struck out (I mentioned and costs covered here I think). He said very well what proof do you have - I dont see any evidence.
I mentioned the JM1-5 exhibits which it turns out I had also sent to the wrong court too (Edmonton rather than Clerkenwell & Shoreditch). I'd printed it all out and brought 3 copies too but he said that I couldnt use them without prior submission. I said that they had definitly been emailed to the claimant.
In the end he asked how can you prove that you changed your address and what date - I said I had a print out of the drivers licence with the date - he didnt realise that contained the date and took the print out i had with me.
After that he turned to the claimant and asked what the address trace they referred to actually was and she couldnt answer. He warned her not to introduce new evidence and then got fed up with her stumbling and turned to me and said I'm going to strike this out as the driving licence shows that this man changed his address at the earliest opportunity and that you sent the claim against the old address even though the dvla had the new address.
He said he didnt believe for a second that I didnt receive the original ticket and that I wouldnt have a leg to stand on if they had served the claim against the right address for the court proceedings. Although he did also say that he appreciated my honesty with admitting that I got the wrong car when i paid for the parking and admitted that in my later witness statement.
I didnt ask about costs at this time as I didnt want to upset him or ask a silly question and he seemed quite cross and eager to get finished. I know thats silly but it's quite a strange experience all in all.
Hope that helps give a bit of insight.
Yes I learned a lot although Im not particularly keen to repeat the experience any time soon ha
