Just an update. I hope you @Andyorch and @dx100uk had a very merry Christmas. Just received a Notice of Trial Date letter, so now know when to provide documents and my witness statement to the court and Lowell by. The hearing is to be held via telephone due to the Covid-19 situation on 10th August 2021. I will post a first attempt at my witness statement here soon. Hopefully Lowell won't pay the trial fee by 13th July 2021 and the claim gets struck out. An earlier conclusion would be even better.Notice of Trial Date (red

Just to update the post. I received a Notice of Allocation to the Small Claims Track (Hearing) letter today. I expected it to have a date and time, it did not. Just told me they will be sent later. So I am awaiting the date and time so I know when to provide documents and my witness statement by. That's it for now. J Notice of Allocation to the Small Claims Track (Hearing).pdf

Thanks. Definitely reading and following threads. Just realised I misunderstood what to do. I will arrange a mediation appointment and when they call and ask if I have enough information I will say no not enough to make an informed decision.

Update. Just received the attached from the Small Claims Telephone Mediation Service. I have to call the number to make an appointment for mediation, so I am not going to call so that it gets transferred to court. I will then complete a witness statement. Have some ideas of how to do the statement from other threads I have followed. Hope that is okay up to this point? Thanks. Telephone Mediation.pdf

Thanks.

Thanks, I thought that might be the case. J

Keeping post updated: Received my N180 Directions questionnaire today. Will complete, agreeing to mediation, and send back to court and a copy to Lowell. Will wait for mediation to contact me and I will then say not enough info to mediate. Question, as my alleged debt would be statute barred on 29/1/2020 as that would be 6 years since any payment was made, am I liable if the court hearing does not happen before then? My understanding is probably I am liable as the proceedings have already been started by Lowell with the court. Asking as my N18

Just received a letter from Lowell Solicitors today confirming what the debt relates to and that I turned down an offer from Vodafone as I could not afford it. They have offered a Tomlin Order agreement, the draft is mainly left blank, they want me to sign it to show agreement. Like I would sign a blank cheque! Finally they threaten that if I do not agree to the Tomlin Order agreement they may use it as evidence that attendance costs could have been avoided. Still waiting for my Directions questionnaire. Tomlin Order.pdf

Just keeping post up to date and keeping a time line. Just received Lowell's N180 Directions questionnaire copy saying yes to mediation. Waiting for my own Directions questionnaire to also agree to mediation.

Thanks for the feedback Andy and dx100uk Jason

Hi, Just received Lowell Solicitors response to my CPR 31.14 request. I have attached it here as one pdf. It contains a response letter from Lowell, a copy of letter of assignment from Vodafone, a copy of a letter from Lowell saying they bought the account and five months of Vodafone fully itemised bills (I just attached the quick breakdown of each). Is this a standard response to the CPR 31.14 request or is their anything to be wary of? Many thanks, Jason

Andy, Thanks so much for the tweaks, much appreciated. I will get the above added to my defence now and await Lowell's response to my defence. I will update you here when I hear back from them/court. Thanks again, Jason

Thanks for the guidance and support dx100uk & Andyorch. Here is my defence, how does it look?: 1) The Defendant entered into an agreement with Vodafone under the account reference ********* (“the Agreement”). 2) The Defendant failed to maintain the required payments and the service was terminated. 3) The Agreement was later assigned to the Claimant on 24/12/2014 and notice given to the Defendant. 4) Despite repeated requests for payment, the sum of £1389.92 remains due and outstanding. And the Claimant claims a) The said sum of £1389.92

I had made some changes as suggested to personalise it to my case and just wanted to know if it was okay to post.Just not very confident doing this and appreciate the help very much you are giving. Thanks. I will print the letter and get it posted off tomorrow morning and then work on the defence I need to file.

Not sure how to show (link) you to the the letter I want to send. Can you please advise. Thanks.