Advice on 4 year old PCN - paper work now issued
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My old man has just received a letter from excel parking saying his account has been passed to their legal team BW legal.
All future correspondence etc should be with BW etc etc
Thing is it dates back to 2012 and he has never written to them or communicated with them at any time. He remembers the advice at that time was to just ignore all the letters and they will go away, which they did (then!)
Any idea why this has just been restarted and what if anything he should do?
The BW legal letter that came in the same envelope says he has 16 days to pay £154. Made up of 100 PCN and 54 charges.
It says as he failed to pay or raise an appeal he has to pay within 16 days or they may refer for county court action.
Can they do this 4 yrs on and should he just ignore and go to court if it actually goes that far?there are literally no letters or info, nothing he just ignored the lot as he wasn't even sure it was him in the car at the time.
All future correspondence etc should be with BW etc etc
Thing is it dates back to 2012 and he has never written to them or communicated with them at any time. He remembers the advice at that time was to just ignore all the letters and they will go away, which they did (then!)
Any idea why this has just been restarted and what if anything he should do?
The BW legal letter that came in the same envelope says he has 16 days to pay £154. Made up of 100 PCN and 54 charges.
It says as he failed to pay or raise an appeal he has to pay within 16 days or they may refer for county court action.
Can they do this 4 yrs on and should he just ignore and go to court if it actually goes that far?there are literally no letters or info, nothing he just ignored the lot as he wasn't even sure it was him in the car at the time.
200Plus Club said:
My old man has just received a letter from excel parking saying his account has been passed to their legal team BW legal.
All future correspondence etc should be with BW etc etc
Thing is it dates back to 2012 and he has never written to them or communicated with them at any time. He remembers the advice at that time was to just ignore all the letters and they will go away, which they did (then!)
Any idea why this has just been restarted and what if anything he should do?
The BW legal letter that came in the same envelope says he has 16 days to pay £154. Made up of 100 PCN and 54 charges.
It says as he failed to pay or raise an appeal he has to pay within 16 days or they may refer for county court action.
Can they do this 4 yrs on and should he just ignore and go to court if it actually goes that far?there are literally no letters or info, nothing he just ignored the lot as he wasn't even sure it was him in the car at the time.
I've highlighted the key word All future correspondence etc should be with BW etc etc
Thing is it dates back to 2012 and he has never written to them or communicated with them at any time. He remembers the advice at that time was to just ignore all the letters and they will go away, which they did (then!)
Any idea why this has just been restarted and what if anything he should do?
The BW legal letter that came in the same envelope says he has 16 days to pay £154. Made up of 100 PCN and 54 charges.
It says as he failed to pay or raise an appeal he has to pay within 16 days or they may refer for county court action.
Can they do this 4 yrs on and should he just ignore and go to court if it actually goes that far?there are literally no letters or info, nothing he just ignored the lot as he wasn't even sure it was him in the car at the time.
; regardless, visit pepipoo.com, register and start a thread in their "private parking tickets" forum for the latest position. The advice back in 2012 was "ignore", certainly pre-October 2012, so that is fine 
- but situations change.One theory is that BW Legal etc (because they aren't the only ones doing this
) are sending these invoices out after 4 years (they have up to 6 years) in the hope that Registered Keepers will have moved and they can get a "slam dunk" uncontested CCJ. 200Plus Club said:
The BW legal letter that came in the same envelope says he has 16 days to pay £154. Made up of 100 PCN and 54 charges.
All standard stuff with Excel/BW.Plenty of threads on pepipoo and MSE.
Just be prepared to do a lot of bedtime reading.
voyds9 said:
What ever happened to a timely prosecution.
Not that old chestnut again. 
Prosecution only applies to criminal matters.
Private parking cases are civil: either tort (trespass) or contract law.
It's a numbers exercise for Excel - they have a load of un-enforcable tickets that they are trying one last try at. If you query it with BW legal and ask for copies of the PCN and letters sent previously, you'll get a "this matter has now been dropped" type of reply in a couple of weeks. I have a collection of these now...
If you ignore it, I understand that BW Legal are bulk processing court claims in the hope that they too will be ignored and then they can get a default judgement.
Utterly morally bankrupt industry.
If you ignore it, I understand that BW Legal are bulk processing court claims in the hope that they too will be ignored and then they can get a default judgement.
Utterly morally bankrupt industry.
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