Hi, firstly 'd like to thank all of you for your invaluable advice and comments/expieriences. My wife and I have 3 claims ongoing against Natwest. If it's ok with you I will talk about my wifes claim. Up to now things have gone exactly the same as everyone else (including Cobbets). on 5/6/07 she recieved a letter from the court stating that the allocation questionnaires had been dispenced with, and that the court had done this on their own initiative (which we could apply to set aside within 7 days). I have copied the letter under this question to save refering back to it. My questions are: 1) why have they 'Block listed' the hearing? and what does this mean? 2) As we have alsready paid the court £120.00 for this action, why are they now asking for another £100.00? and what is this for, and can we reclaim this if the case is won/defaulted in our favour? Many thanks again for all your hard work. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Notice of Allocation to the small Claims Track (Hearing) To the Claimant’s Solicitor Court Seal (My Wife’s name and address) ( ) ( ) DEPUTY DISTRICT JUDGE (judges name) has considered the statements of case and allocation questionnaires dispensed with and allocated the claim to the small claims track. The Court has made this order on its own initiative pursuant to Rule 3.3 of the civil procedure Rules 1998. Any party Affected by this order has the right to apply to set it aside, vary or stay it, by application made not more than 7 days after this order was served on the party making the application. Parties to file in court and serve on the other party 14 days before the hearing copy documents relied upon and bring the original documents to the hearing. The parties must file in court and serve on the other party written statements of all witnesses (including themselves) at least 14 days before the hearing and any witness whose statement is not agreed by the other party must attend The Claimants witness statement must state the exact amount claimed and how calculated unless already set out in the particulars of claim The Defendant should file and serve a short skeleton argument no less than 14 days before the hearing The hearing of the claim will take place at 10.30 on the 17 August 2007 at (……..) County Court, (..court address) and should take no longer than 15 minutes The court must be informed immediately if the case is settled by agreement before the hearing date. NOTE: The hearing has been block listed. If the claim will be seriously contested at the hearing, it may be adjourned and further directions given. (Other court notes about attending or not) NOTE TO CLAIMANT Pursuant to the County Court Fees Order Part 2.1, a fee of £100.00 is payable by the claimant upon allocation to track. This sum must be paid to the Court by 4.00pm on 28 June 2007 Date: 04 June 2007