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It looks like a default judgement was entered due to a lack of response however the defendant has discovered this and has a genuine reason for not responding.
It looks like they obtained a set aside which means they applied to have the judgment overturned due to an error. Such reasons as the paperwork went to the wrong address or the defence was posted but the court lost it would be grounds for granting a set aside.
What happens now is the claim reverts back to the stage of them submitting a defence. It looks like it's going to a hearing.
Originally posted by waamo
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You'll have to forgive me if i've misunderstood you here...
by default you don't mean automatic do you?
Basically i've been helping my brother with this claim because while i don't have a clue, he's even worse

but he wanted to go ahead with the claim. We did contact solicitors for help but they basically just said do it yourself online - so that's what we had to do.
Letters were sent to the company (recorded) to the address they put on their invoice. Thing is it's just like a warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Not sure if that matters.
They didn't respond by said date so we manually took it to the judgement phase ... & then waited.
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think i'd filled out the forms correctly for him. Even calculating the interest. I did this from the day he refused the car rather than from the day he submitted the claim (if that matters?).
Frustratingly, i'm not sure how he finds out WHY it's now at this stage. The last time the court was called for what we felt was just a standard question & not actual 'legal advice' they just said - we can't give legal advice, go see Citizens Advice or a solicitor.
Well Citizens Advice wont be able to tell us WHY it's been 'set aside', only like yourself (as in it could be X, could be Y, could be Z, who knows).
So they still have to defend this? Because the impression i got from it was that it's now basically been decided that the company have won, they have nothing to answer to & my brother is just out of luck & forget about it?