Will my name appear on Court Listings?

[concerned.citizen]

Hi all,

 

I'll keep it short.

 

I have a DCA chasing me for a debt from just less than 6 years ago.

 

I received the papers from Northampton and sent in a defence and it looks like it's going to court.

 

I would be mortified if my friends and family found out i was having to deal with issues this way

- will my name appear in local newspapers/on the internet?

 

I receive the local paper and quite often they list the criminal cases and outcomes at the magistrates court

but never seemingly the debt related stuff..

.can anyone tell me if this sort of information is available/easy for people to find?

 

Also the original creditor and dca have been sending correspondence to the wrong address.

I have correspondence from them back in the day proving they did have the right address

however everything they have sent me has gone astray.

 

The only reason i know about the court case is that it was re-directed whereas most innocuous looking stuff is returned to sender/binned etc.

 

If i haven't been receiving their correspondence due to an incorrect address

and it is their error does it matter that they show that they sent it, i.e. is it a defence?

[citizenB]

If they have your correct address but have been sending it elsewhere, then you can certainly raise this issue. Did they issue the claim at the wrong address ?

 

If you hadnt received it and a judgment was awarded in default, then I think you would have been able to get it set aside fairly easily.

 

I am pretty sure that only bankruptcies are mentioned in the local newspaper.

[concerned.citizen]

It's a block of flats and unless it's addressed correctly it ends up through a communal door,

i don't have access to that communal door whatsoever as i am in a different block altogether.

 

All of their correspondence (checked with SAR) has gone through that communal door including the court docs..

.it's not a particularly nice area so noone ever brings around the post

but because this said court services a good natured neighbour (nosy neighbour) opened it and tracked me down.

 

It's bad enough they know but i don't want everyone knowing.

 

I've honestly had no correspondence about this for goodness know how many years but the last payment was 5yrs

and 11mths ago at the time the court docs were issued.

[Ganymede]

It will appear in the Court list at your local Court but not published on the web or in the papers usually until it gets to the higher Courts.

[marylikes]

Hi all,

 

I'll keep it short. I have a DCA chasing me for a debt from just less than 6 years ago. I received the papers from Northampton and sent in a defence and it looks like it's going to court.

 

I would be mortified if my friends and family found out i was having to deal with issues this way - will my name appear in local newspapers/on the internet? I receive the local paper and quite often they list the criminal cases and outcomes at the magistrates court but never seemingly the debt related stuff...can anyone tell me if this sort of information is available/easy for people to find?

 

Also the original creditor and dca have been sending correspondence to the wrong address. I have correspondence from them back in the day proving they did have the right address however everything they have sent me has gone astray. The only reason i know about the court case is that it was re-directed whereas most innocuous looking stuff is returned to sender/binned etc.

 

If i haven't been receiving their correspondence due to an incorrect address and it is their error does it matter that they show that they sent it, i.e. is it a defence?

 

Doesn't look to me like you have a defence based on what you've said.

 

You seem to be concerned with what other people will think?

 

You hope that moving and them not getting your updated address even though you have moved

and are getting the mail might be a defence?

 

The answer is No,

 

its not a defence.

[dx100uk]

if they can prove the OC or the DCa knew and had used the correct address already

then sending a claimform to another address is a defence.

 

dx

[mjt2013]

Well, it's not a defence to the claim in any event. Even if they have to reserve the documents that's as far as the address issue will take the OP, although he's obviously replied to the claim because he says a defence has been filed.

 

As for publicity, your name will not be published anywhere save for the actual list at court that day so unless someone happens to be in court and look at it they'll never know.