Find out here if your local court is staying claims

[bearing]

Called Stafford Combined Court today, gentleman I spoke to said the Judge will decide tomorrow on whether to stay or not, but he said it was likely there would be a blanket stay on all cases pending the outcome.

Will call on Thursday and will let you know the outcome.

Stoke on Trent are running on a case by case basis at the moment.

[ICY]

list update below

[Yankeeruinx]

Mansfield County Court have stayed my case, I've appealed and now I have hearing on the 6th November to get the Stay Lifted even though I did ask for one without a hearing.

[Kazzex]

Hi, spoke to Ladya t Exeter CC and all cases there are being stayed what do we do?

[georgieboy]

Chester County Court case stayed............

[tifo]

Originally Posted by dolly

Blackburn are carrying on as normal.

yes, i've been in and asked.

they said it is up to the judge to decide.

[dolly]

Originally Posted by dolly

Blackburn are carrying on as normal.

Update on this - new cases are being stayed.

If the bank asks for a stay they WILL be granted - we had a date for next Wednesday with Lloyds which has been stayed - they also basically told me not to waste my money appealing the decision.

[tifo]

Originally Posted by dolly

If the bank asks for a stay they WILL be granted.

hope they don't extend this stay to business account claims or credit cards?

i have a few to file soon .....

banks are playing the 'waiver' card on my business account (Sole Trader ) claim.

and have some credit cards to file soon ....

[chezt]

Originally Posted by tifo

hope they don't extend this stay to business account claims or credit cards?

i have a few to file soon .....

banks are playing the 'waiver' card on my business account (Sole Trader ) claim.

and have some credit cards to file soon ....

I've had notification of a stay on my c/card claim with YBank after they requested one - I've written to them & the court & am also going to complain to OFT & FOS as the banks are obviously abusing the system!

[nicklea]

Just got back from Peterborough Court and here's what happened.

My claim is actually for default charges on my mortgage account rather than my current account - but the wonderful Abbey put in a defence against a current account claim so i ended up in the same hearing as all the other current account claimants.

Briefly, the DJ said that from now on, as long as the banks requested it, then he would be staying the cases. He also sits in Cambridge court as well and so I presume that Cambridge are doing the same also.

He also stated that he had spoken to the senior judge covering East Anglia (sorry can't remember the exact title) this morning and from what he said it seems that all the courts in East Anglia will be following suit.

He also said that a date has been set in the Commercial Court to hear the test case on January 27th and that 8 consecutive days have been set aside for this case. He spent some time telling people that this was a quite extraordinarily quick timescale for 8 days to be made clear in that court. He went on to say that he wouldn't expect the judge to make a ruling on the case until the end of February - so that they can do all their "consulting" - and that, whichever way it goes, it is expected to be appealled.

While I was there, several people did object to the stay but, I gather, none were successful. I went in after all these other people had been in and the DJ did look distinctly fed up by this stage!

When I was in with the judge, the barrister for Abbey (who, by the way, was a really friendly chap and not at all like some of the other descriptions I've read on here about people's experiences in court) mentioned that he had full details of the Test case and that it very clearly was just in relation to current accounts and that other products such as mortgages, loans and credit cards were not affected. So the judge ordered Abbey to submit a proper defence, set a date for the trial and awarded me costs for my appearance today.


Before the hearing, there was a barrister for Lloyds there and he definitely settled a credit card claim before the hearing. I overheard one Lloyds claimant asking the barrister why the other claim had been settled but not his and the barrister clearly replyed that it was because it was a credit card claim.

Hope this is helpful

Just as a ps, I was speaking to a couple of the barristers afterwards, it seems they had all come up from London (boy this must be costing the banks a fortune). The barrister in my case mentioned that he specialises in defamation in the sports world. They must be really bored out of their minds dealing with these sorts of things instead of what they normally specialise in.

[elseg]

Hastings Court stayed my claim (was due in court next monday - 6 days away!!) although it did offer me the chance to appeal, so will wait to see on that - took all paperwork requesting a removal of the stay down this afternoon (recieved letter this morning)
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Has anyone had to appear to a hearing about removing a stay??

[nicklea]

Originally Posted by chezt

I've had notification of a stay on my c/card claim with YBank after they requested one - I've written to them & the court & am also going to complain to OFT & FOS as the banks are obviously abusing the system!

I just saw your post. Did you attend at court when the stay was requested? If you see my post that I've just done, the DJ would have stayed my case if I hadn't stood up and objected. He also clearly stated that this test case is limited purely to current accounts. I would suggest that you ask to get the stay lifted.

Regards

Nicklea

[bethcharlie]

Bishop Auckland Court saying they are not staying cases at the moment

[Nell2609]

Liverpool Civil and Family Court seem to be taking a case by case basis. Hearing going ahead as scheduled, tomorrow.

[ICY]

It would be very useful if you could post what your local court has told you regarding stay on claims due to the OFT report. We dont need to know what the banks said, we all know they will just tell us that they have a stay and that is that.
I am Hoping that this list will help in our argument to have stays set aside, by demonstrating to judges that (at the moment) the majority of courts are continuing with claims on a case by case basis, which is a fair and just way to continue.
I also hope to raise the awareness a bit, it may give us all a bit of hope if anyone was fearing the banks letters were right saying all cases were stayed when in fact they werent.

All the below seem to be playing by a case by case basis and appear to be all proceeding as normal:

Aldershot & Farnham County Court,
Bishop Auckland County Court,
Blackburn County Court, NEW CLAIMS BEING STAYED
Bow County Court,
Bristol County Court, NEW CLAIMS BEING STAYED
Bury County Court,
Caernarfon County Court,
Chichester County Court,
Croydon County Court,
Gloucestershire Family and Civil Courts,
Grantham County Court,
Guildford County Court,
Hitchin County Court,
Hull County Court,
Ipswich County Court,
Kettering County Court,
Lancaster County Court,
Leeds Combined Court Centre,
Liverpool Civil and Family Court,
Medway County Court,
Milton Keynes County Court,
Newcastle County Court,
Northampton County Court,
North Shields County Court,
Norwich County Court,
Nottingham County Court,
Oxford Combined Court Centre,
Romford County Court,
Salford County Court,
Scarborough County Court,
Scun.thorpe County Court,
Slough County Court,
St.Helens County Court Merseyside
Stoke-on-Trent Combined Court,
Sunderland County Court,
Thanet County Court,
Warrington and Runcorn County Courts,
Watford County Court,
Wellingborough County Court,
West London County Court,
Weymouth and Dorchester Combined Court Centre,
Winchester Combined Court,
Woolwich County Court,
Worcester County Court,
Wrexham Count Court,
York County Court


All the below courts have said SOME cases will be stayed whilst the outcome of the test case is decided:

Altrincham County Court,
Ashford County Court,
Barnsley County Court,
Bournemouth County Court,
Brighton County Court,
Carlisle Combined Court Centre,
Chester County Court,
Hastings County Court,
Derby Combined Court Centre,
Mansfield County Court,
Rotherham County Court,
Sheffield Laws Courts,

All the below courts have said ALL cases will be stayed whilst the outcome of the test case is decided:

Birkenhead County Court,
Blackpool County Court,
Bolton Combined Court Centre,
Bradford County Court,
Canterbury Combined Court Centre,
Exeter Combined County Centre,
Gateshead County Court,
Halifax County Court,
Leicester County Court,
Luton County Court,
Oldham County Court,
Peterborough Combined Court Centre,
Plymouth Combined Court,
Southend County Court,
Taunton County Court,
Telford County Court,
Torquay and Newton Abbot County Court,
Weston-Super-Mare County Court,

The situation at the below is still unclear:

Aberdare County Court,
Aberysthwyth County Court,
Accrington County Court,
Aylesbury County Court,
Banbury County Court,
Barnet Civil and Family Courts Centre,
Barnstaple County Court,
Barrow-in-Furness County Court,
Basildon Combined Court,
Basingstoke County Court,
Bath County Court,
Bedford County Court,
Birmingham Civil Justice Centre,
Blackwood County Court,
Bodmin County Court,
Boston County Court,
Brecon Law Courts,
Brentford County Court,
Bridgend Law Courts,
Bromley County Court,
Burnley Combined Court Centre,
Burton-upon-tweed County Court,
Bury St Edmonds County Court,
Buxton County Court,
Cambridge County Court,
Cardiff Civil Justice Centre,
Carmarthen County Court,
Central London County Court,
Chelmsford County Court,
Cheltenham County Court,
Chesterfield County Court,
Chorley County Court,
Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court,
Colchester County Court,
Consett County Court,
Conwy and Colwyn County Court,
Coventry Combined Court Centre,
Crewe County Court,
Croyden County Court,
Darlington County Court,
Dartford County Court,
Dewsbury County Court,
Doncaster County Court,
Dudley County Court,
Durham County Court,
Eastbourne County Court,
Edmonton County Court,
Epsom County Court,
Evesham County Court,
Gravesend County Court,
Great Grimsby Combined Court Centre,
Harlow County Court,
Harrogate County Court,
Hartlepool County Court,
Haverfordwest County Court,
Haywards Heath County Court,
Hereford County Court