Hello!
Just a small thing but it's niggling away at me... people tell me I should just move on.
I made a claim against someone... didn't hear anything for 3 weeks so asked the court for default judgement as the defendant had not acknowledged.
31 days after I'd served the claim, the defendant provided a defence.
I phoned the court and asked what was happening and they told me the claim is now a defended one.
I told them there had been no acknowledgement and they looked in the file and told me that the claim had been acknowledged 8 days after I served it.
I don't think this is the case at all as I didn't receive a form N10 from the court to tell me about the acknowledgement of service.
What I think has happened is that the defendant probably sent his defence and acknowledgement together, backdating the acknowledgement.
Neither was the defence filed and served within the time limitation... unless it's the case that you don't count weekends or bank holidays.
I wonder, is it the norm that courts don't bother telling a claimant that the claim has been acknowledged?
Do I have any redress?
Dookist
Just a small thing but it's niggling away at me... people tell me I should just move on.
I made a claim against someone... didn't hear anything for 3 weeks so asked the court for default judgement as the defendant had not acknowledged.
31 days after I'd served the claim, the defendant provided a defence.
I phoned the court and asked what was happening and they told me the claim is now a defended one.
I told them there had been no acknowledgement and they looked in the file and told me that the claim had been acknowledged 8 days after I served it.
I don't think this is the case at all as I didn't receive a form N10 from the court to tell me about the acknowledgement of service.
What I think has happened is that the defendant probably sent his defence and acknowledgement together, backdating the acknowledgement.
Neither was the defence filed and served within the time limitation... unless it's the case that you don't count weekends or bank holidays.
I wonder, is it the norm that courts don't bother telling a claimant that the claim has been acknowledged?
Do I have any redress?
Dookist
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