Important: All content on this page is drawn from filed court documents. These are allegations by the Applicants. They do not constitute findings of misconduct. DJ Parker is entitled to the presumption of having acted in good faith.
Alleged Departure — CPR 55.8 bypass at Wandsworth County Court
The Applicants allege that DJ Parker used the CPR 55.8 gateway impermissibly, treating serious fraud, escrow delivery and document-proven disputes as though they did not appear substantial — thereby disposing of possession proceedings without giving the trial directions that CPR 55.8 mandates where substantial disputes are raised.
CPR 55.8 — if the claim is genuinely disputed on grounds which appear to be substantial, the court shall give directions for the claim to be dealt with at trial. The test is appearance, not certainty. The gateway exists to prevent residential occupiers from being evicted without a proper hearing of substantive disputes going to the foundation of possession.
Missing transcripts
The Applicants further allege that transcripts of hearings before DJ Parker at Wandsworth went missing despite repeated requests — removing the evidence needed to prove how the CPR 55.8 safeguard was bypassed. The Applicants note that litigants are told not to make private recordings because the court record is said to be the reliable public record. Yet here the court record could not be obtained.
Back to judicial conduct index"After at least 12 requests, the courts were still unable to produce them. Where the missing record concerns hearings in which Black litigants say fraud and unlawful possession were shut out, the absence of the transcript compounds the appearance of institutional non-accountability."
— Open Letter to the Lord Chancellor, May 2026