Civil Enforcement original claim

Murmur_2

When I first received a Parking Contravention notice from Civil enforcement dated 12.01.2012 for an incident dated 29.12.2011 and continued correspondence from Newlyn (4 letters dated March and April 2012), Civial Enforcement Ltd (April 2014) and Debt Enforcement & Action (September 2014) which resulted in a claim form issued in the Northampton County Court with a date of service of 25.11.14. I initially looked at all the posts on this site and the consensus was to ignore everything and not be frightened of any threatened action which was not enforceable so did not respond to the claim form with an acknowledgement of service or defence. I have now received what looks like a default judgment in the sum of £237.00 in favour of Debt Enforcement & Action from the County Court Money Claims Centre in Salford. When I went to the forum it appears that the "old" thread is no longer to be used. On this new thread the flowchart seems to indicate that because the incident was dated prior to 01.10.2012 it should be ignored. How can I ignore a judgment in default with the resulting consequences of not paying. I followed the advice given and am now very frightened by this latest correspondence. Can you help me?

The_Slithy_Tove

Advice has NEVER been to ignore court papers, so you've kind of stuffed yourself there. An attempt to get the judgement set aside would not be easy, as you don't seem to have a valid reason for doing so.

Murmur_2

The_Slithy_Tove wrote: »

Advice has NEVER been to ignore court papers, so you've kind of stuffed yourself there. An attempt to get the judgement set aside would not be easy, as you don't seem to have a valid reason for doing so.

If you look at the threads that were posted back in 2012 you will see that county court papers were being copied and pasted together to frighten people into paying up. At that time advice was given to keep ignoring. The flowchart posted on this thread also says ignore if the incident happened prior to 01.10.2012 - why have this on the flowchart at all if it is not factual?

Marktheshark

I have never seen any advice telling anyone to ignore stamped court papers.
Even if someone did, why on earth would you ignore something that summons you to a court ?

esmerobbo

You could have ignored draft court papers! No one has ever advocated ignoring "official" stamped court papers.

Now if you don't want this to effect you, it will need paying within 28 days of judgement.

A set aside would be difficult as you would have to convince a judge that some people on the internet said it was safe to ignore so you thought you could.
You could try on the basis that the original case had no merit. However it will cost you £155 for a set aside hearing and if you fail you will have to pay the original and more.

The_Deep

Whatever you think that you may have read on the internet, the fact remains that you now have a CCJ which would be very difficult to overturn. You would be best advised to pay and put it down to experience.