Taking company to court - what next?

Horlock

OK so the story in very brief:

I used the online court via gov.uk the history as shown by gov.uk is as follows

Claim History
Your claim was issued on 05/12/2016
You submitted a judgment against [to protect the guilty for now at least] on 28/12/2016 at 23:08:18
Your judgment against [to protect the guilty for now at least] was issued on 30/12/2016 at 19:20:00

So the question is what happens next.

I've only tried to take one other company to small claims court before and they paid up immediately in full before the 14 days cutoff.

In this case the company have completely ignored the letter from the court - and on my understanding this now means that the judgement has gone through against them undefended. But I could be wrong.

I have the option to issue a warrant - but this sounds really excessive and pretty costly too.

What do I do instead? Do I just wait? Should I phone the company and say that the judgement has passed against them?

Any advice gratefully accepted.

For the record the company involved is a well known large company, but not well known for customer service.

GTE_Boy

Call the sheriffs.

usefulmale

Are the costs of issuing a warrant recovered from the company? How much is the judgement for?

You have to see it through to the end, or you have just won a hollow victory.

Enterprise_1701C

If they are a big company and ignored the court papers then they will ignore the judgement.

Without knowing how much the judgement is for, and what country of the UK you (and they) are based in it is difficult to say what to do BUT if the cost of the warrant would also be recovered at the same time then I would say go that route.

If you struggle with that then there is one other route - at this time of the year newspapers love "silly" stories and little man (or woman) stands up against big ogre of a company would sit well, a little bit of publicity might shame them into paying.

Oh, and in case you are thinking a CCJ will have damaged them, chances are it wont touch the sides.

steampowered

Yes, go ahead and issue the warrant. Let the bailiff contact them and get the money. Costs are recoverable from the defendant.

It is quite common for large companies to fail to respond to court proceedings due to administrative mess ups.

It is not common for large companies to ignore CCJs because the methods of enforcement are serious - you can send bailiffs round to their premises; enforce over their bank accounts; enforce against debts they are owed by their customers and so on. It isn't realistic for a large company to avoid payment.

alumende27

Why not mention the company name?

Horlock

dsdhall wrote: »

Why not mention the company name?

Really looking for the dust to settle before naming and shaming.

The payment is for a smaller amount than the price of the warrant.

It really is just a matter of principal rather than big money.

Johno100

Horlock wrote: »

The payment is for a smaller amount than the price of the warrant.

So less than £100?