Court claim 1st credit

[MrsJ]

This is a court claim from 1st credit relating to a LLoyds bank Joint account overdraft.
court claim from 1st credit started in June with my other half's name wrong. we pointed the error out in our defence.
They amended claim to me only.
The court have set out time scales and I have submitted court bundle & statements.
1st credit are now asking us to consent to adding OH to the claim to avoid increasing costs ?
They also want the court to change the hearing date from mid January
We believe this is a tactic for them to gain time to get information from Lloyds regarding our original disputes in 2006 to 2009( financial hardship due to illness & self employed) .
Should we insist it remains just in my name only and continues on the dates set ?

We would appreciate any guidance

[MrsJ]

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Just to let you all know that we lost in court today, although we used the claim that Mr J did not receive the assignment till after the claim had started, the judge said that was ok, even though the letters of assignment to Mrs J were addressed to Mr & Mrs but read Dear Mrs (only) that was ok, even though the accounts last statement read 0 in 2010 when Lloyds closed it the judge accepted the claimants excuse this is how Lloyds do there accounting, even though the account was in dispute with Lloyds the judge said this is ok.

We both thank everyone who helped us in this matter.
Better luck next time we hope.

[mystery1]

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It's still part of the case file and there should be no issue referring to it.

M1

[MrsJ]

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We are in court this month and hopefully this will be the end. We have a question that needs a answer by Thursday if possible,

Mrs J has done a court bundle with a statement of truth that she would rely on before, this was given a reference code, does she have to submit this again or can she still refer to it.

Thanks for any help in advance.

[nemesis45]

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As far as I am aware there is no necessity to issue a DN on a current account, formal demand for payment/ recall of an OD is the norm.
Looking through various archived documents in regard to OD/current accounts and some more recent ones it is the acceptance of a facility which is noted and signed, all of the demands for payment/recall of OD have at least 7 days notice of the action to be taken .
As per sect 98 A

I agree on Denning MR my feeling has always been that insisting on production of the DOA is almost always pointless,.

The DOA's I have had site have had no beneficial effect whatsoever.
nem.

[pt2537]

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Current Accounts are exempt from parts of CCA 1974 as are OD's, there is no " regulated agreement" as such a " letter of facility" is signed at the inception of an account.

Default notice are not required a Formal/Final demand for payment is made, a recall for repayment of an overdraft in full is made stating that the facility will be withdrawn on a certain date.

Btw The Deed of assignment is the confidential commercially sensitive contract between debt seller and debt purchaser, a court may order production is certain circumstances, but if this happens it is usually useless as it refers perhaps to many thousands of accounts in a portfolio of debt,

According to Denning MR the assignment is a document that the debtor is entitled to sight of. Also, there is nothing to stop redaction of the core financial data (see Webster v Ridgeway School Foundation)

Im also not entirely sure i agree about a default notice either, firstly the terms of the contract need to be produced, as the terms would govern the rights of the parties, secondly s98A now requires a statutory notice before the agreement can be terminated

[MrsJ]

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We have to post Mrs & Mr's defence to the court and 1st credit tomorrow, has anyone any comments on the above.

[MrsJ]

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This is Mrs J's defence, its the one used so far.

Could we have your thoughts please.

Many thanks.

[MrsJ]

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This is the last page of Mr Js defense which has been updated, page 1 stays the same, any thoughts?

Many thanks.

[MrsJ]

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No before.

[nemesis45]

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These call on the DD were made after assignment to 1st Credit?

[MrsJ]

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There were, from what we can see from some statement print outs from 1st credit 2 payments in Sept 2009, one for £10 and one for £18, the rest as you say were repeated attempts to call down a payment via a direct debit.

[nemesis45]

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Have you confirmed that this is the "mystery" payment?
Were Lloyds repeatedly attempting to call down payment via a direct debit?

[MrsJ]

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Good point M1, many thanks

[mystery1]

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You haven't made mention that the notice of assignment provided shows that they only had a cause of action against 1 defendant when they are required to have a cause of action against both of you as per pickthall and s141(5) cca.

M1