Help needed with a county court claim against us..

[sellyservice]

Hi all ,

 

I run a small buessiness and we are the defendant in county court case,

 

ill keep it short but it involved a customer who left his car with us for repair and Mot and said there was no rush to repair and we could take as long as needed

 

but turned up the next day ranting and swearing because it was not ready,

 

just charged him £30 for mot and asked him to leave,

 

he then issued a summons against us for £370 for breach of contract,

 

he actually issued the summons in my managers personnel name even though he does not own the ltd company and his just paye employee,

 

we had a quick first hearing the district judge ruled to serve witness statement by 23/8 and the claimant to issue a statement why he thinks the manger is personally libel,

and trial was set for 20/11

he did not serve any witness statements or the required libel statement on us,

 

when we got to trial date, the judge asked why he had not served anything on us

he said he thought it was a nonsense and he had attached everything to original POC,

 

she said he has to now serve everything thing again by 27/11 including a POC on our company name so the company can defend the claim aswell,

 

the claimant has now just sent the original claim statement company ( he addressed it to a private house completely wrong address)

but he has ignored the judge and did not put any POC sheet so now there is no defence sheet there to use for my company's defence,

 

I have until the 03/12 to defend as per judges last hearing,

 

can I just apply to have this case dismissed as the claimant has now ignored 3 judges order request, thanks in advance for advice anyone,

[BankFodder]

OK - no need to panic about it but it would be helpful if you could use some spacing and proper punctuation because solid blocks of text are very difficult to follow and will prejudice your chances of good help.

 

He can only sue for losses he has suffered.

 

If he has merely left the car there and it has not deteriorated then I don't see any loss.

 

Please will you put up the claim form and we can take it further

[dx100uk]

scan the required letters/agreements/sheets - as a picture[jpg] file

don't forget you can use a mobile phone or a digital camera too!!

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BUT......

ENSURE: remove all pers info inc. barcodes etc using paint program

but leave all figures and dates. {DO NOT USE A BIRO OR PEN]

convert existing PC files to PDF [office has an installable print to PDF option]

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goto one of the many free online pdf converter websites [http://docupub.com/pdfconvert/]

it would be better to upload a multipage pdf if

you have many images too rather than many single pdfs

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or if you have PDF as an installed printer drive use that

or use word and save as pdf

try and logically name your file so people know what it is.

i'e Default notice dd-mm-yyyy

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open a new msg box here

hit go advanced below the msg box

hit manage attachments below that box

hit the add files button on the top right

hit select files, navigate to your file on your pc

hit upload files

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[Master Tyke]

Hi all ,

I run a small buessiness and we are the defendant in county court case,

can I just apply to have this case dismissed as the claimant has now ignored 3 judges order request, thanks in advance for advice anyone

 

Asking shouldn't do any harm, if she has no legal advice it is likely she to get cut some slack by the judge, but three time is pushing her luck.

 

She probably does this sort of thing all the time and relies on it being undefended to get a default judgement.

Edited November 26, 2012 by Master Tyke

[Andrew-P]

For info you can save any MS Office document as a pdf file by doing a 'save as' and then choosing .pdf