Taking The Airlines To Court

Luke84

Thanks to all your great advices I'm at the moment of writing a MCOL Statement. I just wanted to know how much I can claim.
I'm entitled to €600 but I don't know if I should include in the statement 8% interest on top. My flight was in October 2007.
Thanks

Vauban

Luke84 wrote: »

Thanks to all your great advices I'm at the moment of writing a MCOL Statement. I just wanted to know how much I can claim.
I'm entitled to €600 but I don't know if I should include in the statement 8% interest on top. My flight was in October 2007.
Thanks

Yes you should. Look at page one of this thread - there are a couple of sexual links, including on working out interest.

JPears

Vauban wrote: »

Yes you should. Look at page one of this thread - there are a couple of sexual links, including on working out interest.

trying to see the joke - or typo?

Vauban

JPears wrote: »

trying to see the joke - or typo?

That's awful! I blame apple's predictive text. It was meant to be "useful" I think, but frankly who knows. More disturbing, perhaps, is that it still got a "thanks":D

georgewn.1

l.walton wrote: »

Here is some information which I found out the hard way, I think this is an appropriate thread for posting this:

If you get no response from the airline after the date set by MCOL and still no response from them after you are issued a default judgement then your next step is to pay for a warrant of execution.

Now if you do this on MCOL then your warrant is passed on to the local County Court bailiffs who, in general, seem to be useless. I was informed that they could not do anything as they were not allowed into the airline's building by security.

The option that I should've gone with, is a High Court Enforcement Officer, which I only found out after further research. Their fee is about £60 compared to the £100 for the county court bailiffs and they are paid on results, rather than the salaried county court bailiffs. This option is not on MCOL and requires some form filling but is almost definitely a better option.

http://thesheriffsoffice.com/

I hope this helps someone. I could've definitely used this information, I am currently debating whether to pay the extra £60 for the high court enforcement officers on top of the £160 that I have already spent on my claim.

It is my understanding that the high court sheriff can force entry to a commercial property in the execution of his duty.
When the day comes my first choice will be the high court sheriff.

bazaar_2

OK, Ive spent a while doing my POC, I was going to do this at local court, but the claim form states send to salford.
Do we now send the POC off to them or is it best to make claim online via Northampton and submit the POC seperately, it also is a little unclear for claims involving 4 people, as you can only log on as one person?
Any advise greatly appreciated.

111KAB

bazaar wrote: »

OK, Ive spent a while doing my POC,

Sounds like this may be extensive in which case you probably have too many words to fit in the MCOL 'box' anyway.

bazaar_2

111KAB wrote: »

Sounds like this may be extensive in which case you probably have too many words to fit in the MCOL 'box' anyway.

Its only extensive due to the airline faffing around with different excuses for the delay and I wanted to detail all of that to the court.
Or should I cut it back a little so it fits on the online claim, IE do I attach each letter back and forth as evidence, or just make the notation?

111KAB

bazaar wrote: »

Its only extensive due to the airline faffing around with different excuses for the delay and I wanted to detail all of that to the court.
Or should I cut it back a little so it fits on the online claim, IE do I attach each letter back and forth as evidence, or just make the notation?

The information you have mentioned comes much later (ie when you are given a date/court allocation) and is your claimant/witness statement. For now just keep the PARTICULARS simple stating how much you want due to a delay of xxxxx in accordance with 261/2004.

Suggest you post on the thread appropriate to your airline.

Don't think 4 claimants will fit in the box.

With MCOL you get a password ~ just distribute that to the other 3 if you go that route.

bazaar_2

damn, I paid the fees, and realised the interst amount was calculated incorrectly. Oh well, I expect my defendant to defend for definite now. Damn and blast and !!!!!!edo