Small Claims Court: address

MartinEve

Hi,

I have had a pretty bad experience with a builder lately and he has refused the opportunity to come back and put it right.

As such, I would like to write to him as per the Practice Direction on Pre-Action conduct. However, I only have his mobile phone number and have, thus far, been unable to track him down. (192.com had 2 entries; the first wasn't him and the second was a non-existent number; hard-copy phone book trawling later today)

If I am unable to obtain his address, is there any way that I can proceed?

Could the police potentially help? (ie. pursue it as some subset of fraud?)

Any help would be gratefully received.

Thanks.

cyberbob

You need his address to go to court.

unholyangel

Check companies house to see what his registered address is. Or google the name he is trading under.

Equaliser123

Police won't be interested. Was it a standard form building contract (like JCT) that you signed? If so, then you have to go to arbitration - not court.

If the amount is for less than £5k then theoretically you don't need to follow the pre-action protocols as there are no cost implications anyway.