Find out here if your local court is staying claims

[thetenter]

Bristol county court - claim filed 7/8/07 letter received a couple of days later with 2 dates on it - 7/8/07 and 8/8/07 stating that because of OFT test case the district judges have decided to stay all new cases.

[ICY]

List updated below

[skintcumbrian]

Carlisle Combined Court

 

My case - stay refused last Thursday, but judge said that in most cases stays are being granted to await outcome of OFT case and in the interests of justice.

 

Clerk told me that in instances where an application for stay had been received by the bank already, cases were being adjourned. I didn't ask about those adjournments, sorry, because my case was going ahead the next day.

 

Note for others: as soon as I received a letter from DG saying they were applying for a stay, I got the denial of request for stay letter in to court. My letter was there in the hearing already, they had to turn up in person to submit their application because of the short time before hearing. Use their backlog against them and keep getting cases in to court!

[ICY]

Thanks for the info SC list updated

[ppauls150]

I have just spoke to Canterbury Court and they are staying all cases are still going forward. As with Ashford Court the woman said all cases are still going to their hearings but they will all be stayed. Looks like it is a fight on my hands to try and not get a stay on my case then there will get back to you as they are on 15th and 16th respectively.

[ICY]

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[poppynurse]

Grantham County Court are deciding on a case by case basis.

[MARTIN3030]

To any MODS, this thread must be important enough to warrant becoming a sticky.

 

 

I think there is good cause for this so Stiky it is.

Please encourage others to post here so we dont have several other threads giving the same info.

[blazing-badger]

Ashford County Court are staying claims if requested by the Bank, not automatically. However the DJ did instruct us to use the extra time to reach a settlement and told us she would award Wasted Costs against a party which refused.

[cajdad]

Ashford County Court are staying claims if requested by the Bank, not automatically. However the DJ did instruct us to use the extra time to reach a settlement and told us she would award Wasted Costs against a party which refused.

 

Seems we are getting conflicting information from Ashford court staff!

 

Blazing-badger, could you post some more details on your case (on your own thread would be best I suppose). When was this? Did you attend a hearing? Did you attempt to resist a stay? Did you get anything in writing from court - if so, would you mind posting it? Any thoughts on how you are supposed to "reach a settlement"? Thanks.

[chezt]

Hi yes the DJ stayed my claim while awaiting the OFTs announcement, I told him that the OFT were ruling on bank accounts and not credit card claims but he was having none of it, citi had failed to comply for full disclosure so their defence should have been struck out, ive poosted the details on my thread groovycaz v citicards..Gc

I think u ought to copy the info & complain to OFT & FOS about this - they are obviously abusing the system! I've had the same thing happen but before my court hearing

[CTUAgent]

looks like Telford County Court is now doing it. My Brother and auntie have had a letter from the court saying its been suspended until the outsome of the test case ARGH! Bit unfair really as thats a completely different case to theres.

 

Any idea how long it will be until we find out what happends?

[ICY]

I think there is good cause for this so Stiky it is.

Please encourage others to post here so we dont have several other threads giving the same info.

Cheers Martin, good to see it wont drop off the page anymore ;-)

[ICY]

List updated below

[MARTIN3030]

Good work ICY.

I have just spoken to St.Helens County Court and its business as usual.

All cases that have been given dates already will go on as normal.Most of these are bulk hearings of which I have 2 myself on 6/7th September.

I think a number of other Courts will be doing the same and reviewing future new cases as the time goes on.

Some Courts appear to be hearing existing cases with dates,but not new ones.

I have updated the list above.

Keep adding your new info guys.

[bearing]

Called Stafford Combined Court today, gentleman I spoke to said the Judge will decide tomorrow on whether to stay or not, but he said it was likely there would be a blanket stay on all cases pending the outcome.

 

Will call on Thursday and will let you know the outcome.

 

Stoke on Trent are running on a case by case basis at the moment.

[ICY]

list update below

[Yankeeruinx]

Mansfield County Court have stayed my case, I've appealed and now I have hearing on the 6th November to get the Stay Lifted even though I did ask for one without a hearing.

[Kazzex]

Hi, spoke to Ladya t Exeter CC and all cases there are being stayed what do we do?

[georgieboy]

Chester County Court case stayed............

[tifo]

Blackburn are carrying on as normal.

 

yes, i've been in and asked.

 

they said it is up to the judge to decide.

[dolly]

Blackburn are carrying on as normal.

 

Update on this - new cases are being stayed.

 

If the bank asks for a stay they WILL be granted - we had a date for next Wednesday with Lloyds which has been stayed - they also basically told me not to waste my money appealing the decision.

[tifo]

If the bank asks for a stay they WILL be granted.

 

hope they don't extend this stay to business account claims or credit cards?

 

i have a few to file soon .....

 

banks are playing the 'waiver' card on my business account (Sole Trader ) claim.

 

and have some credit cards to file soon ....

[chezt]

hope they don't extend this stay to business account claims or credit cards?

 

i have a few to file soon .....

 

banks are playing the 'waiver' card on my business account (Sole Trader ) claim.

 

and have some credit cards to file soon ....

I've had notification of a stay on my c/card claim with YBank after they requested one - I've written to them & the court & am also going to complain to OFT & FOS as the banks are obviously abusing the system!

[nicklea]

Just got back from Peterborough Court and here's what happened.

 

My claim is actually for default charges on my mortgage account rather than my current account - but the wonderful Abbey put in a defence against a current account claim so i ended up in the same hearing as all the other current account claimants.

 

Briefly, the DJ said that from now on, as long as the banks requested it, then he would be staying the cases. He also sits in Cambridge court as well and so I presume that Cambridge are doing the same also.

 

He also stated that he had spoken to the senior judge covering East Anglia (sorry can't remember the exact title) this morning and from what he said it seems that all the courts in East Anglia will be following suit.

 

He also said that a date has been set in the Commercial Court to hear the test case on January 27th and that 8 consecutive days have been set aside for this case. He spent some time telling people that this was a quite extraordinarily quick timescale for 8 days to be made clear in that court. He went on to say that he wouldn't expect the judge to make a ruling on the case until the end of February - so that they can do all their "consulting" - and that, whichever way it goes, it is expected to be appealled.

 

While I was there, several people did object to the stay but, I gather, none were successful. I went in after all these other people had been in and the DJ did look distinctly fed up by this stage!

 

When I was in with the judge, the barrister for Abbey (who, by the way, was a really friendly chap and not at all like some of the other descriptions I've read on here about people's experiences in court) mentioned that he had full details of the Test case and that it very clearly was just in relation to current accounts and that other products such as mortgages, loans and credit cards were not affected. So the judge ordered Abbey to submit a proper defence, set a date for the trial and awarded me costs for my appearance today.

 

 

Before the hearing, there was a barrister for Lloyds there and he definitely settled a credit card claim before the hearing. I overheard one Lloyds claimant asking the barrister why the other claim had been settled but not his and the barrister clearly replyed that it was because it was a credit card claim.

 

Hope this is helpful

 

Just as a ps, I was speaking to a couple of the barristers afterwards, it seems they had all come up from London (boy this must be costing the banks a fortune). The barrister in my case mentioned that he specialises in defamation in the sports world. They must be really bored out of their minds dealing with these sorts of things instead of what they normally specialise in.