Confirmation received today that the Charge has been cancelled

Summary judgment isn’t “an option for an early trial”. It is for when there aren’t any triable issues. So the report being clearly in favour of C can’t be used to say “trial not needed”. The trial is where the judge considers the report. An application for the judgment sum to be paid into court because D hasn't been complying could be useful, and could add pressure on D. Whether it’d be heard before the main hearing on the 4th November is another matter, though! Adding in a request for summary judgment that can be successfully opposed by the one line response of “the issues remain to be determined, the trial is where that should happen, including where the report should be considered” risks losing that application fee, though.

It says on each return ‘subscriptions for shares under the enterprise investment scheme’ £20000 £22000 £24000 it does say in other information ’other tax reliefs and deductions 2 -more information about your subscriptions under the enterprise investment scheme cryoblast’ Doesn’t mention FTR Limited. However there is a cryoblast solutions ltd on companies house and surprise who’s the director Alan Francis Ohara!

Went back to the store I returned the first laptop and they took one look at the laptop and offered replacement or refund. I chose to pay a bit more to have a better spec machine and it's due for delivery tomorrow evening. Thanks for your help!

Lets wait for their intended witness statement and disclosures.

Thank you. There are no more deadlines at the moment apart from payment of hearing fee by 7th October. The DF eventually made his half of the payment for the expert witness so he complied with that at least. He has had a copy of the report so this may trigger a reaction or he could bury his head in the sand, I will have to wait and see. He has a tendency to leave things then all of a sudden either complains about something or makes an offer. I am happy to sit back and wait for the hearing now unless things take a turn.

I had suggested that the hearing was so far ahead that it would be worth applying for a summary judgement but then I realised that this itself would require some kind of hearing and so so it wouldn't make any sense to make the application .

Update: CPR Part 35 report arrived today. Condemns the work carried out, backs up everything I have put in my claim and subsequent witness statement/evidence. States that the whole job should be removed and re-done and the costings are pretty much bang on with the estimates I put forward. I have sent it to the court as the deadline is tomorrow by 4pm. I am guessing there is little to no chance of the defendant getting a judgment in his favour