PPC Court Claims 2012: The results are in!

rew37

Don't forget that people might also go to see a solicitor when they receive an MCOL claim. My guess it that most PPC's would run a mile from a well prepared defence by a good contract law/commercial law solicitor.

bargepole

rew37 wrote: »

Don't forget that people might also go to see a solicitor when they receive an MCOL claim. My guess it that most PPC's would run a mile from a well prepared defence by a good contract law/commercial law solicitor.

That's unlikely to happen. The average high street solicitors are fairly clueless about this sort of thing, and any specialist motoring law / contract law solicitor will most likely charge more than the amount of claim for preparing a defence.

Stroma

It's a small claim most will not go for a solicitor as their costs will be more than the claim itself, so unless someone is doing it for themselves as a solicitor or for mate for free then they won't I should imagine bother, though your legal cover through your house insurance might do it??

I think most PPCs will run a mile when they get the defence that has been done by the guys over on pepipoo

edward123

Stroma wrote: »

I think most PPCs will run a mile when they get the defence that has been done by the guys over on pepipoo

My thought is: Would the 'average' guy in the street fully understand the pepipoo given defense 'he/she' is presenting to the court? Or would they not need to?

bargepole

edward123 wrote: »

My thought is: Would the 'average' guy in the street fully understand the pepipoo given defense 'he/she' is presenting to the court? Or would they not need to?

I always tell them "Read it all the way through, and make sure you understand it, you may have to make these arguments to a Judge".

But I doubt if many of them do, fortunately these cases hardly ever end up in court.

Coupon-mad

edward123 wrote: »

My thought is: Would the 'average' guy in the street fully understand the pepipoo given defense 'he/she' is presenting to the court? Or would they not need to?

I have a copy of it and it's not rocket science.

kirkbyinfurnesslad_2

dggar wrote: »

Can your clearify what you are saying?

Are you suggesting that people getting a CCJ against them will just ignore it?

If a PPC manages to get a CCJ against someone I can't see them not chasing it up.

Actually this is exactly what i am saying

Many people just ignore CCJ's and nothing is done about them simply because the cost of trying to enforce them is out weighed by the chances of actually seeing your money again

People "lets take him to court to get the money that he owes us", but you do that they just ignore it and then if they are not working or you cant find out where he works, then you will face huge problems getting anything back.

Its not just simply a case of getting the judgement enforced through a court baliff. As they may visit a property but the person with the ccjs owes nothing in the house of any value, or they have just moved.

It may look good to have won lots of cases but what % have paid you a penny.

I have a close friend who racked up over 65k in debt and about 20k of that resulted in CCj

He has never paid a penny of them and the companies have given up chasing. One of these judgements was from a window company where he got the whole house double glazed, didn't pay , then went under oral examination, agreed to pay a £1 per week after telling judge he had no money and the window firm has never seen a penny

It isnt the golden egg more like the curates egg....