After Issue of Court papers ?

[cohen27]

Dear Colleagues,

I have started a claim in the County Court for an injunction under the Part 8 procedure.
The papers have now been issued by the Court and I wanted to ask about the following:

1) How many days do I have after issue of the papers by the Court, to serve these papers on the Defendant?.

2) Once I serve the Defendant with the papers, do I have to serve a ‘particulars of claim’ within 14 days of service of the Defendant?.
( as the particulars of the claim were mentioned in brief on the Part 8 form that will be served with the injunction application )

I have looked on the internet and some websites are saying that the papers can be served up to 4 months after issue, on the Defendant. Which is confusing to say the least.

Thank you.

[atticus]

CPR 7.5: https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/pr...les/part07#7.5 - you have 4 months from issue of a claim form to serve the defendant - but please do not take anything like that long.

Separate Particulars of Claim are not required if you are using the Part 8 procedure. Where the N208 form refers to particulars of claim it is referring to whatever you have put in the 'Details of Claim' section of the form.. You must serve any additional written evidence (i.e. statements) with the Claim Form.

[cohen27]

Dear ATTICUS,

Thank you for your response.
You mentioned that “You must serve any additional written evidence (i.e. statements) with the Claim Form”.

If this additional evidence ( statements ) were not included with the Part 8 form and injunction before issue, can they still be included after issue of the paperwork, and served on the Defendant ?.

[cohen27]

If the papers have not yet been served on the Defendant,
I wanted to add some additional information in regards to the particulars on the Part 8 form, does the following rule allow me to do this? ( Rule 17.1(1)):

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/pr...l/rules/part17

[atticus]

You need to study and understand CPR Part 8. See Rules 8.5 and 8.6.