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Last week (on 16th November) a very important debate was heard in the House of Commons on the subject of County Court judgments.
The debate (by Chris Evans MP) followed a recent investigation published by the Daily Mail that found that 900,000 CCJs were issued last year, a greater than 33% increase on the previous three years.
The investigation highlighted the particular case of ParkingEye, a company responsible for many private carparks in this country and a significant user of CCJs.
In the past three years, ParkingEye has made more than 60,000 county court claims against drivers.
Last year, 1.1 million county court claims were issued in the UK of which 745,000 have judgments entered in default of a defence.
Chris Evans MP was proposing changes. For instance, he (rightly in my opinion) considers that the 14 day period in which to challenge a CCJ is to short.
He also considers that once the judgment has been paid in full, that record of the judgment should be removed from Registry Trust (instead of remaining on the court record for 6 years).
He makes some highly important comments about 'service' of documentation. He considers that lessons can be learned from the Scottish system for delivering court summons where documents are first sent by recorded delivery. If that fails, court documents are sent out with sheriff officers.
PS: The comments from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice are of interest !!!
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall...bailiff#g153.1
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