DCBL Private parking (eurocarparks)

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OK. On July 27 last year, you submitted your defence by email and CC'd DCB Legal. You said you received an auto-reply from "them". Who is "them"? I know you later received an email from DCB Legal around 24 September where they acknowledged your defence and that they intended to proceed with the claim. 

What this means is that there is definite proof that your defence was submitted and a copy of it was received by DCB Legal and acknowledged by them. However, did you ever receive an auto acknowledgement from HMCTS/CNBC when you emailed the defence? For now I am assuming that "them" means the auto response from HMCTS/CNBC.

Now that we have seen the judgment, the position is much clearer. This is a default judgment dated 24 March 2026 and it expressly says that judgment was entered because you had not replied to the claim form.

That is the critical point. On the history you have given, that appears to be false. Your Defence was filed by email on 27 July 2025, DCB Legal were copied into it, and DCB Legal later acknowledged receipt of the Defence and confirmed that their client intended to proceed. That means this was not a case where no reply had been made.

So the immediate position is this.

DCB Legal appear to be the primary culprits because this default judgment did not arise on its own after months of dormancy. Somebody acting for the claimant had to request judgment in default. If DCB Legal did that despite already having received and acknowledged the Defence, then they pressed for a CCJ on a basis they knew, or at the very least ought to have known, was false.

The CNBC are also in the frame. Even if DCB Legal initiated the request, the court should not have entered default judgment if the Defence had already been received and recorded. If the CNBC acknowledged the Defence when it was filed, then they should have known perfectly well that default judgment was not available. So this appears to be a joint mess: DCB Legal likely caused it, and the CNBC appear to have rubber-stamped it when they should not have done.

The consequence is serious. A wrongly entered CCJ is not some harmless administrative slip. It is liable to begin affecting your credit record immediately and may cause severe financial consequences. That is why this now needs to be dealt with as an urgent corrective exercise, not as some routine query.

What you need to do now is this.

First, email the CNBC immediately. Send the email to ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk and CC the following in the same email: CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk; bulklitigation@dcblegal.co.uk; info@dcblegal.co.uk  and yourself.

Subject: URGENT – WRONGFULLY ENTERED DEFAULT JUDGMENT – CLAIM M3KF2D9T – IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED

To: ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk
CC: CaseProgression.CNBC@justice.gov.uk; bulklitigation@dcblegal.co.uk; info@dcblegal.co.uk

Dear Sir/madam,

I write in relation to claim M3KF2D9T.

I have now obtained a copy of the default judgment dated 24 March 2026. The judgment states that judgment was entered because I had not replied to the claim form.
That is false.

My Defence was filed by email on 27 July 2025 to ClaimResponses.CNBC@justice.gov.uk. DCB Legal were copied into that email. I have retained my sent email. DCB Legal later expressly acknowledged receipt of my Defence and confirmed that their client intended to proceed with the claim.

This was therefore not a case in which no reply had been made to the claim form. A Defence had been prepared, filed and served. The Claimant’s solicitor was fully aware of it. If the court also received and acknowledged that Defence, default judgment was not available and should never have been entered.

This is an extremely serious administrative failure. A County Court Judgment has now been entered against me on a false basis. It is liable to begin damaging my credit file immediately. That carries obvious and potentially severe financial consequences, including prejudice to credit applications, borrowing, tenancy checks, insurance arrangements and general financial standing. This is not a matter that can be left to sit in a queue for days while a wrongly entered CCJ remains on the register.

I require the CNBC to treat this as urgent and to investigate immediately. I require a substantive response as a matter of urgency, not a generic holding reply and not a response within the usual complaint timescale. That would be wholly inadequate in the circumstances.

Please now confirm in writing, urgently:

1. Whether the court file shows receipt of my Defence.
   
2. The date and time on which the Defence was received and recorded.
   
3. Whether any auto-acknowledgment or other acknowledgment was generated by the court in respect of that Defence email.
   
4. When and how the request for default judgment was made.
   
5. Why default judgment was nevertheless entered on 24 March 2026 on the stated basis that no reply had been made to the claim form.
   
6. What immediate steps will now be taken to remove or set aside this wrongly entered judgment.
   
7. Whether the court will correct this error administratively without requiring me to make and pay for a formal application.
   
8. What urgent steps will be taken to prevent further prejudice to my credit record while this error is being addressed.
   

Please also update the court record immediately with my current address for service as follows:

[full current address]

For the avoidance of doubt, DCB Legal are copied into this email because they appear to have initiated the request for default judgment despite their prior receipt and acknowledgment of my Defence. If that is correct, then they requested judgment on a basis they knew, or plainly ought to have known, was false.

I attach:

1. My Defence email dated 27 July 2025.
   
2. Any court auto-acknowledgment, if available.
   
3. The later email from DCB Legal acknowledging receipt of the Defence and confirming that their client intended to proceed.
   
4. The default judgment dated 24 March 2026.
   

This matter requires immediate corrective action. I require a substantive written response without delay. Given the immediate and ongoing prejudice caused by a wrongly entered CCJ, any attempt to hide behind routine response times or standard complaint handling will be wholly unacceptable.

Yours faithfully,

[full name]

Also, send the following email to DCB Legal at bulklitigation@dcblegal.co.uk and CC info@dcblegal.co.uk and yourself.

Subject: FORMAL COMPLAINT – WRONGFUL DEFAULT JUDGMENT PROCURED DESPITE FILED DEFENCE – CLAIM M3KF2D9T

Dear Sirs,

I write to raise a formal complaint regarding the default judgment entered on 24 March 2026 in claim M3KF2D9T.

I have now obtained a copy of the judgment. It states that judgment was entered because I had not replied to the claim form.

That was false.

My Defence was filed by email on 27 July 2025. DCB Legal were copied into that email. I retain my sent email. DCB Legal later expressly acknowledged receipt of my Defence and confirmed that your client intended to proceed with the claim.

You were therefore fully aware that this was not a case in which no reply had been made to the claim form.

In those circumstances, DCB Legal appear to have requested or procured default judgment on a basis which you knew, or at the very least plainly ought to have known, was false. That is a matter of the utmost seriousness.

As a direct result, a County Court Judgment has now been entered against me and is liable to begin affecting my credit file immediately, with potentially severe financial consequences. It has already caused distress, alarm, inconvenience and wasted time. This is not a minor procedural mishap. It is a serious wrongful escalation of proceedings which should never have occurred.

I now require DCB Legal to provide an urgent substantive response and to take immediate steps to remedy the position. I will not accept a slow complaints-handling timetable while a wrongly entered CCJ remains outstanding and continues to cause harm.

Please confirm immediately:

1. Whether DCB Legal requested default judgment in this claim.
   
2. The date on which that request was made.
   
3. On what basis DCB Legal requested default judgment despite already having received and acknowledged my Defence.
   
4. Whether DCB Legal will now immediately notify the court that judgment was wrongly sought and consent to its removal or setting aside.
   
5. Whether DCB Legal will meet any costs necessary to correct this position, including any application fee, should the court refuse to remedy the matter administratively.
   
6. Whether DCB Legal will undertake, with immediate effect, not to take any step to enforce the judgment, rely on it, report upon it, or cause any debt recovery or enforcement correspondence to be sent while this matter is being corrected.
   

For the avoidance of doubt, DCB Legal are hereby put on notice that I hold you responsible for your role in causing this wrongful judgment. You are further put on notice that I will seek to hold you liable for all consequences flowing from it, including distress, inconvenience, wasted time and any financial harm caused. Any continued reliance on this judgment, or any debt recovery or enforcement activity after receipt of this complaint, will be treated as a deliberate aggravation of the harm already caused.

A formal complaint to the Solicitors Regulation Authority will be filed in any event. DCB Legal are now on notice that their apparent role in requesting or procuring default judgment despite their prior receipt and acknowledgment of my Defence will be placed before the regulator. Nothing in this correspondence should be taken as any concession, waiver or election not to pursue any further complaint or claim arising from this matter.

I require a substantive written response without delay.

Yours faithfully,

[full name]

Attach to both emails:

• the Defence email dated 27 July 2025,
  
• any CNBC auto-acknowledgment if you have it,
  
• the later DCB Legal email acknowledging receipt of the Defence and saying their client intended to proceed,
  
• and the default judgment itself.
  

   

This is a case where a Defence was filed, DCB Legal knew about it, and default judgment was nevertheless obtained and entered on a false basis. That needs to be confronted directly and urgently. Compensation claim can come later.

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Hi, thank you so much for your help. 

I have sent all those email and did everything you said. 

I have received auto acknowledgement letters from all now just awaiting response.