Dedicated Holidays from hell.

[scoobyandy]

Long story cut short:
We went away with dedicated holidays in April 06. Holiday was bad.
I set up slagging off website under "dedicated holidays from hell" a .co.uk website and started court proceedings. The site was removed as a gesture by me (msn still has it cached) and the court case is currently at the stage of allocation questionaires - i've completed mine and sent it off (there are no costs for me as we are low income and are exempt)

Yesterday, 01/09/06 the company ceased trading. I don't know why or under what circumstances, - their phone lines just say ceased trading and the ATOL site www.atol.org.uk just list them under "Latest ATOL Failures".

Thus far, they had entered a defence and were disputing the whole claim - is it likely that i now will have no chance whatsoever of winning back the money i'm suing for? How does the case progress now they have apparently ceased trading? They certainly were trading when they acknowledged and defended my claim. Will it all depend upon exactly why they have "ceased trading"?

Grr - can anyone tell me it's not going to end in me being up the creek? lol

[Rich44]

Were they a limited company?

[scoobyandy]

Yes, a limited company. Still active according to comapnies house, but it's early days yet i suspect.

[scoobyandy]

or even companies house lol

[Lady H]

Sorry but I don't think you will get anything out of this now. I can only speak from experience as I don't have a whole lot of knowledge on this.

We had UPVC windows fitted by a local company, all in all they were bodged so eventually I put them in court and asked for a full refund. They defended the case but turned up to court so unprepared that the judge posponed the hearing to another date, by which time they ceased trading and never showed up to the final date. We won the case but it never got paid out.

I think you should just cut your losses and leave it. They wouldn't show up to court as the company no longer exists which means yes, you would probably win by default but then its a case of trying to get your money.

The problem is even if there is money available once the company has been wound up there are other creditors to be paid off before they would get to you and they would probably run out of money way before then.

I sympathise with you though, theres nothing worse than being stung like this.