Assistance with defense for county court - passed the 14 day period but not my fault!

Quentin

Unlikely

You have now submitted a defence and should this end up in a hearing you have months to prepare for it!

KeithP

Todd91 wrote: »

I have sent the defence of now via email...

So it's back to the list I wrote earlier...

6) Phone the CCBC [STRIKE]on Monday morning[/STRIKE] to draw their attention to your urgent Defence.

When MCOL shows you case as 'Defended' you can breathe a sigh of relief.

You cannot afford to sit back until then.

Todd91

Thanks again

I have already called the Court to inform them of the situation and that the defence has been sent.

when acknowledging the claim on MCOL was it okay to tell them that the defence has been emailed directly to the court in the defence particulars box?

i saw that people on here have said leave it blank but it wouldnt let me continue with outputting something in there and the defence was over the amount of lines i was allowed to right in the box! (by quite a lot i might add)

KeithP

Todd91 wrote: »

when acknowledging the claim on MCOL was it okay to tell them that the defence has been emailed directly to the court in the defence particulars box?

No it was not.

Todd91 wrote: »

i saw that people on here have said leave it blank but it wouldnt let me continue with outputting something in there...

Strange... I don't recall anyone else having had that problem.

Perhaps you should ring the CCBC again and ask that they disregard the Defence you filed when doing the AoS and take your emailed one instead.

Be nice. There is usually a £255 fee for filing an amended Defence.

Coupon-mad

Sounds like you filled in the defence, rather than 'acknowledgement'. Oh dear.

Which came first, the MCOL filling in of boxes, or emailing the actual defence?

Loadsofchildren123

Send the letter in post #29 then. No point asking for further time when you've prepared the defence. I'd send the letter JUST IN CASE there is an outstanding application for default judgment.


If your wording you put in the AoS box refers simply to your separately filed defence I can't imagine they're going to disregard the emailed version.

Todd91

Coupon-mad wrote: »

Sounds like you filled in the defence, rather than 'acknowledgement'. Oh dear.

Which came first, the MCOL filling in of boxes, or emailing the actual defence?

I emailed the defence first much before I filled in the boxes for the acknowledgement (or what i thought was the acknowledgement)

I will try and call them now however i am unsure what to say because as KeithP mentioned it was an error and they may say I need to pay the fee to ammend it?

Coupon-mad

No, ring the CCBC CONFIDENTLY, and say you emailed your full defence first, and as such that one takes precedence over the words you later put in on MCOL about the email already lodged.

Make sure the person on the other end says they have the emailed version as your defence as it was dated and received by the CCBC earlier, and ask them to assure you that the emailed PDF is the one that they will now share with the Claimant.

OMG this is a mess...never fill in the defence box! We even heard once that someone put in 'TBA' and that was taken as their defence.