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Umkomaas

cheme7676 said:

Hi all,

I had a snoop around and seems no news still. Shall I cut my losses and submit? I'm going to be flat out at work tomorrow and the last thing I want to do is forget to submit it (this time of year I'm doing quite long hours).

Go with it when you are comfortable (definitely don't miss the deadline), but we recommend that you only submit between 9am and 4pm M-F, and wait for an almost immediate auto-response to confirm receipt, don't walk away from it until you receive the auto-receipt, if you haven't got it, chances are the CCBC haven't got your Defence. 

In due course, your Witness Statement can be used to reflect the musings of the DLUHC's Impact Assessment. 

cheme7676

Umkomaas said:

cheme7676 said:

Hi all,

I had a snoop around and seems no news still. Shall I cut my losses and submit? I'm going to be flat out at work tomorrow and the last thing I want to do is forget to submit it (this time of year I'm doing quite long hours).

Go with it when you are comfortable (definitely don't miss the deadline), but we recommend that you only submit between 9am and 4pm M-F, and wait for an almost immediate auto-response to confirm receipt, don't walk away from it until you receive the auto-receipt, if you haven't got it, chances are the CCBC haven't got your Defence. 

In due course, your Witness Statement can be used to reflect the musings of the DLUHC's Impact Assessment. 

Thanks for confirming. I know KeithP heavily suggests doing this on a weekday, but I will give it a shot now and wait for an auto-reply. If it doesn't work, there is no harm in trying again tomorrow during my lunch break hours and ensuring I get that auto-reply. Just to confirm I can see the email is still CCBCAQ@Justice.gov.uk

cheme7676

Okay so can confirm, 2 separate email defences sent to CCBCAQ@Justice.gov.uk and got 2 auto replies from them confirming receipt. Hopefully this means I'm in the clear? 

Coupon-mad

cheme7676 said:

Okay so can confirm, 2 separate email defences sent to CCBCAQ@Justice.gov.uk and got 2 auto replies from them confirming receipt. Hopefully this means I'm in the clear? 

Yes it does, so you've jumped this hoop.

DLUHC update expected any day now.

cheme7676

2 weeks after submitting defence and radio silence. MCOL showing that the last event on both claims is “Defence Received” on 24th July. 

No DQ received nor a statement of intention to proceed. Is this normal after this time?

Coupon-mad

It takes 2 months!

cheme7676

I received a letter, dated for the 14th August with intention to proceed and offer to settle. However this is just for 1 of the 2 DCB claims.

I checked MCOL but this hasn’t updated. Should I proceed to fill out the questionnaires for both in anticipation anyway?

KeithP

cheme7676 said:

I received a letter, dated for the 14th August with intention to proceed and offer to settle.

You were expecting that weren't you?

Item 7 on that checklist you were following when you filed a Defence says...

Items 8, 9 and 10 on that list might be worth another read too.

cheme7676 said:

I checked MCOL but this hasn’t updated. Should I proceed to fill out the questionnaires for both in anticipation anyway?

No harm in being prepared.

The CCBC sent you a letter, or will send you a letter, saying the Claimant has twenty eight days to consider your Defence.

What you don't know is when the CCBC sent a copy of your Defence to the Claimant. It follows from that that it is not known when the Claimant has to respond to the CCBC.

Further, we don't know what delays there are in the CCBC that means they don't send you a Directions Questionnaire as promptly as you might like.

And as @Coupon-mad says above, longer delays are likely.

Can I suggest that you keep checking your MCOL Claim History and as soon as you see that the CCBC has sent a DQ to you, you are ready to download a DQ, complete it and fire it back at the CCBC, remembering to send a copy to the Claimant of course?

cheme7676

Thanks for the response @KeithP

I was expecting this yes, I was just surprised to see that they only responded to one of the two cases - despite a week passing by. Not that it changes anything - as you mentioned delays are possible.

Good suggestion, I will check MCOL daily. I will also download the DQ and fill it out in anticipation and send it back once MCOL is updated respectively.

Just to confirm, I send the DQ to the CCBC and DCB Legal in individual emails right? i.e. I'm not cc'ing DCB Legal in the same email to the CCBC? Not sure if it makes a difference but wanted to clarify that point.

Coupon-mad

No you obviously cc them in!  Think about it.