Clarification please -re Solicitors/Debt Recovery

A question about : Clarification please -re Solicitors/Debt Recovery

I've been here before and successfully fought claim for daughter thanks to many on this forum.

Now again - in brief

She was ticketed on an area which she doesn't believe was well signed (have to receive photo evidence from her) - this was back in August 2014 with a windscreen ticket.

Ignored ticket, ignored follow up two/three letters from Parking Ticketing Ltd and now received solicitors (?) letter from Small Claims Solicitors mentioning 'unless reply within 14 days PTL may issue legal proceedings against you and obtain CCJ etc '

May instruct bailiffs/High court enforcement officers to seize goods etc.

At the bottom of the letter it then refers to contacting the client's debt recovery agent Debt Recovery Plus and this is the part I would like clarification on. I have read the info on the form about Debt Recovery Plus but as this letter hasn't come from them but from Small Claims Solicitors does she continue ignoring them until a court letter arrives and then follow that procedure?

Apologies if I have missed reading that part but everything I have seen refers to time limits less than this where we can refer it back to POPLA and I've been landed with this again!

Thanks again

Best answers:

• just a sc~m letter from the debt recovery firm
  all covered in the debt collector post in the NEWBIES sticky thread
• @SMarg
  The previous ticket your daughter received - and won the appeal against - was also from PTL. Is this query in relation to the same matter or is this an entirely different issue?
  If it is an entirely different matter why did she ignore the PCN rather than appeal it and beat them again?
• [quote]The previous ticket your daughter received - and won the appeal against - was also from PTL. Is this query in relation to the same matter or is this an entirely different issue?
  If it is an entirely different matter why did she ignore the PCN rather than appeal it and beat them again?[quote]
  Entirely different issue. She ignored it because she thought she knew better and now I'm trying to find out the best way to deal with !
• @Redx
  I've spent a couple of hours reading #4 and Debt Recovery and posts on Debt Recovery Plus and how the letters from them should be ignored but as this latest letter came from Small Claims Solicitors does the advice still apply - to ignore?
  I looked at going back to POPLA to appeal regardless of time but unsure.
  I also went to PTL website to try to see the photograph taken at the time of the 'offence' but nothing comes up that relates to the reference in that letter. Again maybe it is because it is 10months or so later.
• without a popla code from the ppc, you cannot appeal to popla , - PERIOD
  one thing you have not done is put the name into the search box and read the countless other threads about them (I have seen many posts about them , which is why I recognised the name)
  try this in the search box, then come back and tell me what you have decided having read several
  
  smallclaimssolicitors
  try this for starters https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=5035663
  and https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....php?t=4881672
• Thanks Red. I'll trawl through those links.
  I realise we can't appeal without a POPLA code but from what I understand from the posts there isn't a fixed time limit to request a code. - or maybe 10 months is too long
• Thanks again
• @Redx -
  Have read through many links re Debt Recovery Plus and Small Claims Solicitors (in fact not just a cup of tea - a whole urn!)
  There are mixed posts as to fire off a letter to Small Claims Solicitors denying the claim and others state to ignore as they are not real Solicitors. Some of the posts are a year old, some newer.
  As there is no address nor telephone number on their letter I have to assume continuing ignoring - would that be correct?
  If this gets too complicated and time consuming I think i will need to hand over to parkingappeals who I understand are legit.
  Thanks
• I would follow the advice I have given, but its your choice
  I have never dealt with these people nor had any paperwork, so cannot answer what I dont know
  Personally I would ignore unless an LBC or MCOL turned up, you must do as you see fit, based upon the paperwork you have and the advice on forums such as this one
• You can ignore or reply to DRP saying that the debt is denied so to return it to their clients and any further contact from them other than to confirm it's been returned to their client will be classed as harassment and appropriate action will be taken without further warning.
• Thanks everyone for advice. I've been ill so haven't acknowledged last posts. Decided that we will ignore but also probably let Private Parking appeals deal with it (via the Parking Cowboys site)