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Do we still need LBAs for Low Value Small Claims raised via MCO?
When I looked into this last year, I got completely different answers to the answers I get now - so, has something changed recently?
I've attached a screenshot of what ChatGPT / CoPilot now tell you if you ask it direct questions along the lines of, does MCO need a LBA. And its sources are justice.gov.uk, moneyclaimsuk.co.uk and advicenow.org.uk.
MCO (the current name for MCOL) is a digital workflow system, not a court, and it enables you to make, track and respond to a money claim online. If the digital service works out who needs to send what, where and when, and it monitors deadlines, and it has a 19-day turnaround for replies from a defendant from initial notification, then doing a manual LBA starts to look redundant.
It'll be decades before the technology can cope with really complex cases and large bundles in the same way, but for very simple money claim cases the case/workflow management side of things seems like a total no-brainer to me.
Does anyone have any thoughts around where this is all headed? Be interested to hear from people on the legal profession side of this.
I've attached a screenshot of what ChatGPT / CoPilot now tell you if you ask it direct questions along the lines of, does MCO need a LBA. And its sources are justice.gov.uk, moneyclaimsuk.co.uk and advicenow.org.uk.
MCO (the current name for MCOL) is a digital workflow system, not a court, and it enables you to make, track and respond to a money claim online. If the digital service works out who needs to send what, where and when, and it monitors deadlines, and it has a 19-day turnaround for replies from a defendant from initial notification, then doing a manual LBA starts to look redundant.
It'll be decades before the technology can cope with really complex cases and large bundles in the same way, but for very simple money claim cases the case/workflow management side of things seems like a total no-brainer to me.
Does anyone have any thoughts around where this is all headed? Be interested to hear from people on the legal profession side of this.
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