County Court (Small Claims track) - Page 3

TheDaddy · 15-11-2006, 22:09

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Originally Posted by Matt D

Hmm.

But

http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/law/smallclaimscourt.shtml

and
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/...ms.htm#Appeals

Crikey, I ask my sister what normally happens

Tezcatlipoca · 15-11-2006, 22:11

Cool, thanks.

15-11-2006, 22:27

tez - go to bed, que sera sera, you will have done your best

Tezcatlipoca · 15-11-2006, 22:40

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Originally Posted by homealone

tez - go to bed, que sera sera, you will have done your best

Cheers, Gaz

Time for bed. Gotta get up bright & early.

15-11-2006, 22:43

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Originally Posted by Matt D

Cheers, Gaz

Time for bed. Gotta get up bright & early.

absolutely, thoughts are with you

danielf · 15-11-2006, 22:45

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Originally Posted by Matt D

Cheers, Gaz

Time for bed. Gotta get up bright & early.

Good luck. I'm sure you'll do fine

maddyp · 15-11-2006, 22:47

whenever you speak - no matter who asks you the question always address your answer to the judge. make sure you stand when they enter and stand when they leave. don't leve before them and thank them for and thing they say such as 'please sit'
you should call the judge 'your honor'

hope this helps, and good luck. most judges are really nice and as long as you are polite and present yourself well you should be fine.

Tinky · 16-11-2006, 07:16

Matt good luck for today. If my memory serves me correctly District Judges should be addressed as Sir/Madam, it will almost certainly be a District Judge you will have, Circuit Judges are Your Honour. If they want to appeal (but that is jumping the gun) and (once again from memory) they must first apply for 'leave to appeal' and there are only 2 grounds for appeal, i.e. a point of law or the Judge was biased against them. Deep breaths now..........

Tezcatlipoca · 16-11-2006, 21:43

Judgement Day.... postponed

Three bloody hours driving to High Wycombe, one hour in the waiting room as the Court was running really late (for some reason there were three other cases all with the same allotted start time as ours, despite there being only two District Judges), & then when we finally got to see the District Judge (who did seem quite nice & not scary), he said that he's sorry but it's going to have to be delayed.

Too much documentation for him to read beforehand, apparently, & too small a time slot for the hearing (it was meant to be slotted in for 1 1/2 hours, he said he thought it would need more like 2 1/2 hours, the lateness meant it wouldn't even have had the 1 1/2 hours).

I fail to understand why the Court could not have figured this out *before* the date of the hearing, thus saving my ex-housemates & I a complete & utter waste of a day.

What's the point in having deadlines to submit things, if the DJ doesn't actually look at anything until a few minutes before you get called in?

The Defendants were rather amusing though, in an annoying way. We can see what they'll be like at the real thing now.

The delay is good for them, unfortunately. They haven't lost any money - they still have ours!

Whereas, after having all moved out at the end of January 2006, we have still not got our deposits, nor any compensation for the disrepair & other stuff, plus have shelled out for all the various court fees etc., and now, will have to wait until at least January '07, probably February '07, for the real final hearing (the Defendants are away Dec-Jan, apparently).

The Defendants also delayed the whole process earlier in the summer (conveniently around the time they sold the house) - they got a 1 month extension to the filing of the allocation questionnaire, plus then it got delayed again 'cos of the location transfer.

Agh

Also, having spent a few hours in High Wycombe, & having spent time wandering around the town after the non-hearing looking for somewhere for lunch, I would just like to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi - "You'll never find a more wretched hive of **** & villainy". Really. It was awful. (No offence to any HW residents here at CF if there are any).

Bengie · 16-11-2006, 21:57

It wont be wasted money - you must now include the cost of today as part of your court fees.
Just have the receipts to hand over to the court with you when you do win.

Tinky · 17-11-2006, 07:57

Judgment day postponed...

Oh how annoying was that? Sorry the DJ didn't have time enough for your case to be heard, this is not unusual and is no ones fault, as some cases are more complicated than first expected. Better luck for your new hearing date, least you have some idea of the set up now and won't be quite so nervous, when next you have to attend Court. Once again good luck!

Shaun · 17-11-2006, 11:42

Can you not ask for it to be transferred to your local CC now?

Tezcatlipoca · 17-11-2006, 20:22

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Originally Posted by Bengie

It wont be wasted money - you must now include the cost of today as part of your court fees.
Just have the receipts to hand over to the court with you when you do win.

The ex-housemate who did the driving asked at the Court office, & they said he just has to write in to claim the travel money back.

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Originally Posted by Tinky

Oh how annoying was that? Sorry the DJ didn't have time enough for your case to be heard, this is not unusual and is no ones fault, as some cases are more complicated than first expected. Better luck for your new hearing date, least you have some idea of the set up now and won't be quite so nervous, when next you have to attend Court. Once again good luck!

It was exceedingly annoying

Cheers

. Like you said, we have more of an idea of what it will be like now.

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Can you not ask for it to be transferred to your local CC now?

The District Judge suggested having it transferred to somewhere roughly halfway between High Wycombe & Cambridge, but the Defendants said there was no way they could go to a hearing outside High Wycombe, so it's gonna still be in High Wycombe next time (they have kids, & say they can't travel to Cambridge for a court hearing as they have noone to look after the kids........ even though, when they started the building work etc a year ago, they would both come to Cambridge from HW each weekend to do the building work etc themselves, so must have had someone to look after the kids then, apart from a couple of weekends when they brought the annoying messy brats with them).

Shaun · 17-11-2006, 21:40

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Originally Posted by Matt D

The District Judge suggested having it transferred to somewhere roughly halfway between High Wycombe & Cambridge, but the Defendants said there was no way they could go to a hearing outside High Wycombe, so it's gonna still be in High Wycombe next time (they have kids, & say they can't travel to Cambridge for a court hearing as they have noone to look after the kids........ even though, when they started the building work etc a year ago, they would both come to Cambridge from HW each weekend to do the building work etc themselves, so must have had someone to look after the kids then, apart from a couple of weekends when they brought the annoying messy brats with them).

Make sure you push this at the nest hearing. They're being totaly unreasonable.

Do they know that if it was moved they'd loose if they didn't turn up. Hmmm, maybe that would be the best thing

Tezcatlipoca · 18-11-2006, 19:27

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Originally Posted by Shaun

Make sure you push this at the nest hearing. They're being totaly unreasonable.

Do they know that if it was moved they'd loose if they didn't turn up. Hmmm, maybe that would be the best thing

Yeah. Hell, they've been totally unreasonable for the past year.

I'd love it if they didn't turn up. Probably unlikely though, especially as it's gonna stay in their horrible town.