Brittania parking/BW legal taking me to court

Jitterywreck

OK, genuinely do not recall having anything like that sent. I had the DQ which I filed online with MCOL, I have searched through my documents and nothing like that is in there. I have 6 weeks before the hearing, from experience would i have time to file my WS and evidence?

Coupon-mad

The Notice of Allocation came out after your DQ.  It's the one that said the case was being allocated to your local court.  If you have lost that, ask the court what the deadline is (it's normally not less than 14 days before the hearing).

Go read recent WS & exhibits bundles by other posters.  There were some great ones in July.

Jitterywreck

The last correspondence I had from the court was the general form of judgment order, that was the end of April 2021. The letter I have just received is entitled "notice of allocation to the small claims track (hearing). There is very little by way of directions on this letter, hence why I posted as I genuinely expected some sort of guidance?! 

Jitterywreck

Coupon-mad said:

The Notice of Allocation came out after your DQ.  It's the one that said the case was being allocated to your local court.  If you have lost that, ask the court what the deadline is (it's normally not less than 14 days before the hearing).

Go read recent WS & exhibits bundles by other posters.  There were some great ones in July.

Thank you! I have literally just had the notice of allocation then, i had a general form of judgment after the DQ due to the covid lockdown and requesting a F2F hearing most likely. I will phone to check but unlikely I would have had the same thing twice ? Lots of reading and evidence gathering for the next few weeks! 

I had a little giggle at their response to my "non sensicle copy and paste defence that they see so often". 

KeithP

A 'General Form of Judgment or Order' is a general form and the subject can only be determined by reading that form.
As you say, you received one in April last year about a hearing on the papers.

Due to it's generality, it is quite possible to receive more than one 'General Form' covering different subjects.

A Notice of Allocation is headed...


There can surely be no confusion here.

Jitterywreck

KeithP said:

A 'General Form of Judgment or Order' is a general form and the subject can only be determined by reading that form.
As you say, you received one in April last year about a hearing on the papers.

Due to it's generality, it is quite possible to receive more than one 'General Form' covering different subjects.

A Notice of Allocation is headed...


There can surely be no confusion here.

This is the letter i received on Saturday! Not had one before hence the confusion (i hadnt even looked at the heading on this one!). You say this letter should indicate when WS etc need to be submitted but there is no such information in the letter? I will definitely check with the court tomorrow as something is amiss with it.

Coupon-mad

Normally your local court (after DQ stage, after the case was transferred to them in 2021 in your case) will have sent out an order containing standard directions, in other words the timetable setting out the steps to be taken by the parties to get the case ready for the trial. The order will usually direct that each party must send to the court and each other copies of all documents on which it intends to rely at trial no later than 14 days before the hearing date.

If you think you are missing the Directions, ring the court and ask for a copy or for them to tell you when those will come, or if they have missed that out by mistake.