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I've been acting on behalf of my partner in her claim against Nat West . She received Notice of Allocation to the Small Claims Track (Hearing) on 22/02/07 , setting the hearing date for the claim at 25/05/2007 .
Both parties have been instructed to serve and file at Court 14 days before hearing date certain information/statement/documents .
In addition though ( and this is the interesting bit I think !!) I note from the document that " By 15/03/2007 the defendant (Nat West) must file and serve a comprehensive witness statement from a responsible employee with statement of truth explaining the banks charging regime and exhibiting all relevant documents justifying it; and if they are discretionary, the decision to apply the charges the subject of this claim to the claimant".
Does anyone know whether the additional requirement that I have quoted is actually standard at this stage , or is it that the Court's are now upping the ante on the Banks because of the time wasting that has been going on to date whereby they drag the whole process through the system and then settle before hearings take place??
or is it that the Court's are now upping the ante on the Banks because of the time wasting that has been going on to date whereby they drag the whole process through the system and then settle before hearings take place??
Effectively, yes. Looks like you won't have to produce your court bundle since they are unlikely to comply.
Thanks michael .That would be a result .Can then get on with my 2 claims against Abbey . Will post further when hopefully Nat West fail to comply and we can apply for jugement on default ( roll on the 16th March)
Re: Hearing Date set for Nat West claim( We've Won)
Further to previous posts , my partner received letter and cheque ( for full amount £2300 claimed ) on Saturday from Cobbetts . Their covering letter was the typical bombastic nonsense and they were settling as a gesture without accepting liability but the poor dears were worried about the escalating legal costs . Bless ! Reading between the lines they were bricking it about having to give their statement to Court by the 15th March .
Anyway ....we won . Thanks to all contributors to this site . Abbey National next .
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