Court Defence advice please

Redx

The cpr s can be easily found online , using Google , try the government website

D_P_Dance

Nearly everything you will ever need to know, ever, can be found by using a search engine.

bob5678

Hello - an update:

I have until June 28th to submit evidence

The claimants legal team sent me a letter. They included this paragraph which I thought might interest you here at the forum:

"In respect of the contents of your Defence, it is apparent that a large amount of the information contained therein has simply been 'copied and pasted' from an external source, which we see on a regular basis. Large portions of your Defence are nonsensical and, in consideration of the circumstances of this individual matter, are entirely irrelevant and therefore unreasonable. We reserve the right to highlight this to the court on the issue of costs."

Since I am sure paragraphs from legal texts regularly get copied and pasted from place to place in any court case (because why would you rewrite something that is already well written?), this strikes me as an attempt on their part to try to bully and scare me? But I don't know since I'm not a legal expert.

I'm working on the evidence at the moment.

D_P_Dance

You do not need to be "learned in the law" to know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the internet to help with a defence.  .  Tell them that you resent their  accusation and will be informing the judge of their temerity in raising this matter.  

bob5678

D_P_Dance said:

You do not need to be "learned in the law" to know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the internet to help with a defence.  .  Tell them that you resent their  accusation and will be informing the judge of their temerity in raising this matter.  

Thanks - you're confirming what I thought
do you think I should actually write to them to say that? And how would I inform the judge of this - during the hearing? Or as a part of the evidence?

D_P_Dance

Yes to all

Coupon-mad

bob5678 said:

D_P_Dance said:

You do not need to be "learned in the law" to know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the internet to help with a defence.  .  Tell them that you resent their  accusation and will be informing the judge of their temerity in raising this matter.  

Thanks - you're confirming what I thought
do you think I should actually write to them to say that? And how would I inform the judge of this - during the hearing? Or as a part of the evidence?

No, don't waste time writing, you are not at that stage, you are at WS stage; so just mention it in your WS, like everyone else does who get that standard wording that we've seen hundreds of times. 

The most recent good example of a draft WS and evidence is the one posted by @jrhys so use and adapt that and show us your draft version for comments.

bob5678

Coupon-mad said:

bob5678 said:

D_P_Dance said:

You do not need to be "learned in the law" to know that there is absolutely nothing wrong with using the internet to help with a defence.  .  Tell them that you resent their  accusation and will be informing the judge of their temerity in raising this matter.  

Thanks - you're confirming what I thought
do you think I should actually write to them to say that? And how would I inform the judge of this - during the hearing? Or as a part of the evidence?

No, don't waste time writing, you are not at that stage, you are at WS stage; so just mention it in your WS, like everyone else does who get that standard wording that we've seen hundreds of times. 

The most recent good example of a draft WS and evidence is the one posted by @jrhys so use and adapt that and show us your draft version for comments.

Thank you I will check that out and will post a draft asap

bob5678

Just received the evidence pack from claimants solicitor. 49 page document. They refer to this forum and to this thread - again saying that because I am not a legal expert that the case is "time-wasting" etc. 

Not sure if it's good to post a draft of my evidence here given that they are obviously reading everything. But then will be sending them the evidence anyway?

D_P_Dance

They can say what they like, the only thing that matters is what a judge says,  If you feel that they are threatening or disparaging you complain to the SRA.

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/en/public/for-public-visitors/using-a-solicitor/complain-about-a-solicitor