Moorside Legal Claim - Feb 2026 [Claim Dismissed]

ChirpyChicken

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81861545#Comment_81861545

Have a google about county court hearings

Coupon-mad

Because it's Moorside Legal I would expect them not to turn up, and the advice here is that you MUST go along, and you should ask for your wasted costs at the end, when you win.

Have they sent you a WS and evidence bundle?

Have YOU filed and served yours? As you saw when reading the NEWBIES thread second post about WS and exhibits. Done it yet?

Does the hearing reinstatement order state a deadline for WS and evidence?

Coupon-mad

Please edit your thread title to:

Moorside Legal claim - hearing Feb 2026.

And if you are following other current Moorside claim threads, then you'll already know that https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/profile/Savemethemoney67

… has a hearing six days before yours.

dabachi_scents23

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81862200#Comment_81862200

Yes, everything was submitted on both sides, deadline was September time, with the original hearing due to take place 6th January. However, Moorside never paid the hearing fee as confirmed in writing by the Court, with a letter sent to me saying it has been struck out. I'm surprised the hearing is now taking place again. I will turn up on the day and hope they don't. I'll follow the thread you shared, thank you

Coupon-mad

You sound prepared. Your journey has been very similar to the other case with the hearing the week before yours.

dabachi_scents23

Me again.

I contacted the court this morning ahead of my reinstated hearing next week to clarify the alleged court error.

UKPS/Moorside failed to pay the hearing fee by the 9 December deadline, so the claim was struck out. They then emailed the court on 10 December, after the deadline, and payment was eventually received on 16 December. Despite this, the deadline was incorrectly recorded as 16 December, even though all correspondence and the Notice of Hearing clearly state 9 December.

I was advised today to email the court and request that the claim be struck out, as no formal extension was agreed or communicated.

Will keep you posted.

Coupon-mad

If it doesn't get struck out, you must attend the hearing with proof of all your costs including childcare & travel & loss of a day's maternity leave (written on a costs assessment signed & dated sheet, including £24 ph for time spent on each stage) and a couple of copies of everything.

Tell the judge about the C's course of conduct in this litigation, including

a) adding a double recovery (fake) 'fee' to the PCN

b) failing to properly plead the claim (Chan and Akande were hopefully exhibited in your WS?)

c) failing to pay the hearing fee and then

d) getting the strike-out Order wrongfully reversed by (seemingly) misleading court staff about the deadline when paying late,

e) not asking for an extension to pay the fee late, then

f) not bothering to turn up to the hearing (they won't).

That all equates to wholly unreasonable conduct and it's important you voice this because you THEN can ask the judge before you leave the room, for all your costs on the 'indemnity basis' not just fixed costs.

I have recently given birth, I'm breastfeeding and my court summons states I need to be prepared to have 6 hours in the court between 10am and 4pm. It's not feasible with a newborn and quite frankly I don't want to interrupt his feeding schedule.

And given the 'thin skull rule' (Google it) the pressure on you to attend a hearing that should have remained struck out is MORE STRESSFUL than on an average person due to the above. Therefore you should certainly get an 'uplift' in wasted costs to recognise the effect on you.

You can take the baby (with a friend to hold him in the waiting room for you).

Coupon-mad

Try the above first and say the claim should have remained struck out.

But:

Be ready to also verbally explain your defence to the PCN because the judge might say:

"well we are here now, so let's look at the evidence and decide".

If forced to do that, FIRST adduce Chan & Akande and say the Claim should be dismissed per those two persuasive cases that you exhibited in your WS (we hope?).

Then if the judge disagrees, you need to know and voice your PCN defence reasons.

dabachi_scents23

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81877045#Comment_81877045

Thank you for the very clear advice. I didn't include Chan & Akande in my WS; is it too late to mention it in the hearing should it not be struck out?

Also, regarding £24 at each stage, a quick chat gpt search indicates 5 hours litigation at £24 ph would be deemed reasonable, itemising expenses such as time spent researching, emails, printing, postage, mileage etc plus £95 loss of earnings for attending court. Granted this would be loss of a day of Maternity leave. Does this seem reasonable?

I will prepare a request for the judge and share it here.

Coupon-mad

Yes those costs are reasonable, but my goodness, you missed a trick by not using Chan and Akande in your defence or WS!

We use them in EVERY Moorside case because their Particulars of Claim don't ever specify a term breached.

Add them this week attached to a short skeleton argument. Search the forum. Submit that this week with your signed & dated costs sheet which talks briefly about unreasonable conduct and the thin skull rule.