Papers only claim

KeithP

As Redx says, when you receive the Directions Questionnaire from the County Court Business Centre, you should complete it following the guidance offered by Bargepole here:

forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5546325

Point 4. in that post tells you exactly how to answer every question on the DQ.

When completed, you need to send it as a signed and dated pdf email attachment to the email address mentioned in my earlier post.

You also need to send a copy of the completed DQ to Gladstones.

uselesspleasehelp

Sorry. I’ve just had my claim form returned as it wasn’t signed, can I scrap this one and start again do you know? Then I can heave the defence blank, and if I do what will that change? Would that mean going to court after all

nosferatu1001

Just submit a defence via email, signed of course.

Youre at the point you need to submit a defence. If you dnot submit a defence you will havea judgeemnt entered against you.

Who knows
Seriously
You will know, from reading around, that the claimant can and will discontinue if they dont want it to go to a hearing
So wec annot say you WILL go to court
But you WILL have to assume you ARE going to court, unless and until you are told otherwise by the court.

uselesspleasehelp

Thankyou for that
I have spent soooo long going through so many posts looking for examples of defences so I can pick what applies to myself, then I confuse myself and where I found it and then trying to find more to add, any ideas where
I find mainly defence examples?

nosferatu1001

WHY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A NEW DEFENCE?

Noone here is going to search back through your posts to find out why

Either
File the same defence, just do it by EMAIL this time as you were told to, or create a new defence. But your deadline is unlikely to stop.

uselesspleasehelp

As explained in my posts I need to
Accept papers only so to avoid an oral hearing. Therefore is there any advice on what happens next and what is knelt to happen then please?

uselesspleasehelp

I guess I was just hoping to improve it. Also I can’t find it saying anywhere that the court read my defence ( wrongly entered on court claim) before it is passed back to Gladstones? That’s why I was wondering is it worth doing one emailed to them as suggested or do they keep a copy to read? I’m so confused

uselesspleasehelp

The directions questionnaire I have is a copy of Gladstones one sent to the court it’s not for me to fill out. I assume I will get the same form for me to fill out or something, I have no evidence to show or anything like that, my goodness I feel like a zombie with all what’s going round in my head and still it confuses me so much, I’ve been doing this just try and explain to my son who’s fault this is. what’s happening, he and my husband look at 2 or 3 posts and said they were so confused they couldn’t read any more and it really is a case of you only know if you know and I really don’t. Thank goodness for you knowledgeable people

nosferatu1001

1) If you want papers only, say so on your own DQ. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DEFENCE. NOTHING.
Youare putting yourself in a very weak position by doing so.

2) The court sends a copy of your defence to the Claimant, and they MAY read it. Unlikely. Usually it will be read once it hits your local court.
Its not a suggestion
You will file your defence via email directly to the court.
You do it via email
Email. Not post. Never post. They lose post.

3) Given your husband now knows, why are you wanting papers only still?

4) Improve it how?
5) You dont think you have evidence, but you do have witness evidence that the Defendant was NOT the driver, so IF they have failed to comply with POFA - and you can *easily* find this out, by sending them a Subject Access Request to their data protection officer for a copy of ALL the data they hold -then the Keeper is not liable.
Thats it
End of

KeithP

uselesspleasehelp wrote: »

Also I can’t find it saying anywhere that the court read my defence ( wrongly entered on court claim)

I am concerned by this sentence.

Did you write anything in the Defence and Counterclaim box when returning the form?