CCJ Timescale

[Snudge88]

Does anyone have any recent experience of the time taken to have a CCJ issued?

I'm currently pursuing a claim through the Small Claims track to which the defendant has failed to file a defence, and so I have asked for a CCJ to be issued. I note that the portal explains that if a postal response is received in the interim, my request for a CCJ will be rejected.

I'm surprised that the defendant's legal firm appears to have dropped the ball so spectacularly, and am chalking it up to either delays caused by the festive break, or a backlog of paperwork at HMCTS which means that a response has been sent but not yet processed.

What is the likely timeframe between requesting the CCJ and having it issued?

[R0b]

Have you called the court to find out what's going on? That would be the starting point.

[Snudge88]

Have you called the court to find out what's going on? That would be the starting point.

The dialogue upon requesting a CCJ specifically states NOT to contact the Court for updates.

[R0b]

I wouldn't have thought it necessary for the dialogue to make that clear. If you request something and you haven't heard back for a period of time the logicial thing to do would be to make contact for an update in as much the same way you would if you are awaiting a delivery for something and it hasn't turned up.

Call the court and give them the claim number and ask what's going on and you might get an answer, or it might be that the defendant has since filed a defence. Just bear in mind if you do successfully obtain a default judgment I would expect the defendant to spring into action to get it set aside. The threshold for that is a low one, so you should be careful when deciding if you want to oppose an application to set aside the default judgment.