Re: Bailiff letter from private parking company with no first letter

[dimebagslash]

@dimebagslash, on what date did you submit the N244 application?

Around the 5th december 2025

[b789]

Has the case been allocated to your local county court or is it still with the CNBC?

[b789]

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:

IN THE COUNTY COURT

Claim No: M8KF60F5

BETWEEN:

Elite Car Parking Management Ltd

Claimant

- 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.

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]

[dimebagslash]

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:

IN THE COUNTY COURT

Claim No: M8KF60F5

BETWEEN:

Elite Car Parking Management Ltd

Claimant

- 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.

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]

Thats great - the case has been transferred to the County Court of Edmonton on the 8th January 2026.

Should I just find the email for the county court and send the above there?

Thanks

[b789]

If you hit the "New reply" rather than the other reply button, it won't copy the whole of the previous post in your response.

If the case was transferred to Edmonton, then the SWS must be sent to enquiries.edmonton.countycourt@justice.gov.uk and CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself.

[dimebagslash]

ok thanks will send tomorrow!

[dimebagslash]

I received this in the post - i think it's just to give me the date and time of the court hearing...



I also received the email below...

Dear James Mcgrother

We write further to your N244 Application.

DCB Legal have received your Application, however, the Court have failed to supply us with a copy of your Witness Statement dated 04/12/2025.

We kindly ask that you disclose a copy at your earliest convenience.

We look forward to your response.

Kind Regards, 

Kieran Hinton

DCB Legal Ltd 

Tel: 0203 838 7038 | DX 23457 Runcorn

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[b789]

Hi @dimebagslash. When you reply to a post, can you please use the black "New reply" button rater than the smaller "reply" button as that will prevent you copying the whole previous post into your responses.

The image of whatever it is you received is not showing. Can you try and upload another copy of it please.

Regarding the email from DCB Legal, reply and attach both the original witness statement and the supplemental witness statement.

There is no advantage in playing games with them over it. If they say they have the N244 but not the witness statement, just cure it and keep the record clean.

A suitable reply would be:

Subject: Claim No. M8KF60F5

Dear Sirs,

I refer to your email below.

Please find attached a copy of my witness statement dated 04/12/2025, together with my supplemental witness statement.

These documents have also been filed with the Court.

Yours faithfully,

[your name]

If the supplemental witness statement has not yet been sent, then attach only the original witness statement for now and send the supplemental statement separately once finalised.
Also make sure the reply is sent to DCB Legal at info@dcblegal.co.uk (or just hit "reply" to the email you received and CC to yourself so there is a record of service.

Can you please confirm the email address they used in there request for the WS.

[dimebagslash]

yes the email used was Kieran@dcblegal.co.uk

I did send out the supplemental witness statement already but I will resend to dcblegal today

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[b789]

You can reply to that email address or use both info@blegal.co.uk. Either way, as long as any response or email has the claim number in the subject field it will get to the correct person.

Can you just confirm that the Notice of Hearing Allocation" is just that single page.