N180 - Mediation - Disclose personal details to claimant?

[Bill Shidding]

Hi, dealing with a N180 at the moment and decided to ask if anybody redacted the contact details of the defendant when serving a copy of the N180 on the claimant?

 

There is also (in the claim I am involved with) a matter of the claim being issued with the wrong name of the defendant.

 

I ask because these details are supposed to be used by the mediation service to enable them to arrange/mediate a telephone conference between the parties, and I would be concerned that the claimant would use the telephone number to harass the defendant.

 

So, better to leave these boxes blank on the claimants copy, or ?

 

Thanks for replies,

Bill.

[Andyorch]

The DQ is not used to set up mediation...you telephone a separate service to indicate you would like to participate......and inform them of your contact number.

Mediation is a go between you dont actually speak to the Claimant.

 

With regards to " I would be concerned that the claimant would use the telephone number to harass the defendant." then dont complete that section on the claimants copy...not that they would during litigation.

[Bill Shidding]

Hi Andyorch, according to the n180 that has been received (attached), it is "essential" that the defendant complete the personal details, even if the answer to A1 is "no".

 

Perhaps because this n180 was updated last month, it now does set up mediation?

[Andyorch]

No its new..... a tick to mediation is all that triggers mediation and then you have the option to contact mediation to proceed.You complete 2 sets of DQ..one for the court fully completed and one for the claimant redacting the phone numbers if that is your fear.......we have never had a defendant " harassed " before because of entering their phone number on the DQ... and the claimant would most probably have it anyway when they traced the defendant.