Someone trying to sue me for extortionate amounts

paulmapp8306

Ultimately, he has a justifiable claim - even if the figures are disputable. Despite him owing you money, and paying with a cheque that bounced, you had absolutely NO right to cancel his booking. Two wrongs dont make a right and all that.

it could quite easily be argue that he did not indent the cheque to bounce, and gave it in good faith - yet cancelling his booking was quite clearly done deliberately and with intent.

DVardysShadow

paulmapp8306 wrote: »

Ultimately, he has a justifiable claim - even if the figures are disputable. Despite him owing you money, and paying with a cheque that bounced, you had absolutely NO right to cancel his booking. Two wrongs dont make a right and all that.

it could quite easily be argue that he did not indent the cheque to bounce, and gave it in good faith - yet cancelling his booking was quite clearly done deliberately and with intent.

I agree. I am not totally certain that I have understood every twist and turn, but it looks to me like OP has muddies the waters on a civil claim by undertaking borderline criminal action.

DVardysShadow

Dekota wrote: »

Right so I was responsible for cancelling someone's holiday tickets without their consent and they took me to court and I've always favoured an out of court settlement but claimant has never approached me prior to court.

The cost of the tickets would be around £800, he is claiming £4,600. Half of what he's claiming for is for stress caused. Will his case succeed? Will the judge order me to pay him that amount?! It's highly unreasonable of him to claim that amount, I've been advised by the travel agency that he's lost £596 in tickets...

thanks

More fool you. Presumably, the person whose tickets you cancelled ended up with a fortnight off work with nowhere to go and his partner too. So added to the claim for the tickets themselves, he could rightfully make a claim for loss of earnings for himself and partner for the time he can go.

I think you just have to pay up, write off your losses and live with the satisfaction of messing up his holiday.