Small claims court

chenyu

Thank you. If this goes to court what do I need to do .

Le_Kirk

chenyu said:

Thank you. If this goes to court what do I need to do .

If you read back through your thread you will find this advice: -
3 January at 5:50PM which will take you to the NEWBIE sticky and thence to the standard defence template which includes a 12 point list of what happens and what you must do and when.

Coupon-mad

The 12 points are only the first steps and are in the Template Defence thread first post.

Everything else is explained in the 2nd post of the NEWBIES thread.

chenyu

Thank you looks like its going to court it's been moved to my home town court ☹☹

chenyu

So I have recivso I have received this letter today would you say they are going to proceed with this. Nothing has changed when I have check in the government site, but do you think I should start getting things in place to fight this? 

Castle

Any reason why you have left the claim number showing?

Coupon-mad

So they have served their WS and Evidence, as required by the court hearing order which gave a deadline for that 'not later than xx days...' 

And you haven't yet? What's the deadline?

I said back in March:

The 12 points are only the first steps and are in the Template Defence thread first post.

Everything else is explained in the 2nd post of the NEWBIES thread.

chenyu

Sorry was I suppose to cover that 🙈.
As far as the letter I got from the court was that they are waiting for them to pay the fee for this to go have a day in court and once they pay that I will be informed that this is progressive to a date .

Jenni_D

But if they have already submitted their WS (which they wouldn't have done unless they had a deadline), then surely you must have (had) the same deadline? Just pray that you're not too late - we've seen WS deadlines which are weeks or months before a hearing date.

Check all court paperwork you've received - both sides - in case the date is there. e.g. The original notice of allocation (to your local court) may mention the deadline.

Le_Kirk

On your notice of allocation (letter from the court) was there a date by which you and the claimant had to file and serve witness statement and evidence?  There should also be a date by which the claimant should pay the hearing fee.