Court Date Early Jan - Gladstones

Coupon-mad

You will have time to file & serve a costs schedule as that can be done days before the hearing anyway.

Search the forum for costs schedule £300 and copy one mentioned by me in November which set out a Defendant's punitive costs separately from 'ordinary costs'.

To fill in some gaps in your case, you WILL need to file & serve a skeleton argument (see NEWBIES thread post #2 for examples) because you can also do that just days before the hearing.

You also need to read CEC16's thread and file & serve the CRA 2015...

5thAttemptAtUserName

You will have time to file & serve a costs schedule as that can be done days before the hearing anyway.

Search the forum for costs schedule £300 and copy one mentioned by me in November which set out a Defendant's punitive costs separately from 'ordinary costs'.

-Thank you for this, I will follow it up today - COURT DATE 8th Jan, so still time

To fill in some gaps in your case, you WILL need to file & serve a skeleton argument (see NEWBIES thread post #2 for examples) because you can also do that just days before the hearing.

I'm off to the NEBIEWS now

You also need to read CEC16's thread and file & serve the CRA 2015...

Never heard of this, I'm busy this morning, thank you for your help and very useful suggestions. Time to patch up this hull and see if it holds water.

5thAttemptAtUserName

Proposed schedule of costs:

_____________________________________________
DEFENDANT'S SCHEDULE OF COSTS
_______________________________________________________________





Ordinary Costs


Loss of earnings incurred through attendance at Court 08.01.2020 - £95

Return mileage from home address to Court (e.g. 8.5 miles x £0.45) £7.65

Parking near Court £5.00

Sub-total £107.65


Further costs for Claimant's unreasonable behaviour, pursuant to Civil Procedure Rule 27.14(2)(g)

Research, preparation and drafting of documents (7 hours as Litigant in Person rate of £19 per hour) £133

Stationery, printing, photocopying and postage: £25

Sub-total £158


£ 265 TOTAL COSTS CLAIMED

Coupon-mad

Yes that looks reasonable.

But to get the added costs for unreasonableness agreed by a Judge is rare and you have to be ready to spell out why you should get them, and how the C has been vexatious and unreasonable, such as not providing full particulars of claim, not following the pre-action protocol for debt claims, maybe not replying to a SAR or appeal, not filing & serving their WS in good time, etc.

5thAttemptAtUserName

I won!

Gladstones didn't turn up and had withdrawn the case, I had not received notification of this until I arrived in court!

In the end I sent my costs in as just over £100, rather than going for added amounts.

Just want to say thank you to Coupon-mad and the authors of the sticky posts (read them, then re-read them).

If you are taken to court by these people, just bear in mind that the worst that can happen is that you owe money. As bad as that is, some of the folks in court don't get to go home after the case.

Redx

Well done

Another one bites the dust !!

Le_Kirk

A win is a win howsoever gained. Well done!

Coupon-mad

Great stuff, well done!

ANOTHER HORIZON ONE BITES THE DUST! :T

5thAttemptAtUserName

OK, this is a bit odd.

They are taking me to court again (for a second alleged incident).

I've got the letter before claim (it arrived on the same day that the discontinuation arrived, after the first court case which they didn't turn up for).

I'm just taking a breather before I take any action, but I must say I'm up for a fight this time. You can't keep taking folks to court, can you? They say it's another offence and have refused my offer to settle out of court (they still owe my expenses from the last case).

All of my documentation will be loads better and I'm not nervous of court any more. Plus, they now owe me £107. They claim i owe them £150.... they'd be insane to take this to court.

Ralph-y

send a LBC for the amount owed ... it might focus their mind


Ralph:cool: