Excel court claims

[Sheero]

Has anybody else replied to a letter before claim form, then been issued with a court claim before receiving a reply/acknowledgment to initial response.

[charitynjw]

Did you get proof of posting of your response?
Did they send you a pre-action protocol pack? Is that what you replied to, or was it just a Letter Before Claim?
Who are the sols? BWL?

All that notwithstanding, if you have received a County Court Claim you need to deal with it.
Have you?

[Sheero]

They sent a LBC with info sheet which states if I return Reply form within 30 calendar days( which was done by both email and hard copy), you and the company will have at least a further 30 calendar days to discuss the debt before the company takes you to court. However received claim form from county court business centre this morning (dated 14 days after reply was made) and have had no response from excel re the reply form. There is no mention of a solicitor just the claimant (excel)

[charitynjw]

Did you get proof of posting of your hard copy response?

[Sheero]

Yes sent it as signed for

[charitynjw]

Ok......keep the hard copy, the proof of posting (& the email) safe..

Now you must acknowledge the court claim per instructions.
You have 19 days max (14 + 5 days deemed for service) from the issue date on the court claim, but you may as well do it asap, as delaying does not benefit you in any way.
Once acknowledged you have a further 14 days (ie 19 +14 = 33 days) from the court claim issue date in which to file a suitable defence with the court (CCBC Northampton at this stage).
Are you ok doing this via Money Claim On Line (MCOL) (Just follow the instructions in the court claim pack).
Defend the whole of the claim for now.
Do not contest jurisdiction

https://legalbeagles.info/library/gu...ledge-a-claim/

[Sheero]

Ok thanks

[charitynjw]

Once you have acknowledged the claim, you then need to obtain all the evidence that Excel have & are going to rely on for their claim.
You'll need this in order to compile a suitable defence.
One thing you already have is their failure to comply with pre-action protocol.

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/pr...s/debt-pap.pdf

They should automatically send this to you as a precursor to the claim, not make you go cap in hand to ask for it (per their dodgy Letter Before Claim). & even then they did not allow their '30 days'

[ostell]

Check signage i the car park. VCS and Excel sometimes swap over and one company incorrectly claims for the other's contracts.

Do youo want to put up the Notice to keeper and the Particulars of claim, all suitably redacted.