Address for Serving Legal Papers
Discussion
I need to serve a letter before action, and possibly subsequent legal papers on a corporate residential landlord. The landlord is the sole director of a corporate company, and although I know the director's home address, should I serve papers at that address, or the address registered at Companies House.
K4sper said:
definitely companies house address, but personally would send a copy to the personal address if you know it
This - send to both. I would also email if you have it to ensure there's no dispute that they've got it. The strict rules of service don't apply to a letter before claim but if/when you come to issue a claim you will need to ensure that you've complied with CPR 6.8 or 6.9
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/...
Wings said:
Thank you for all your replies, in the event of obtaining judgment, where would one send the bailiff?
You're a long way from obtaining judgment if you're only just sending a claim letter, and if you do issue court proceedings and the claim is fully justified then the company is likely to pay on receiving the court papers.Even if they don't, and you go through the whole court process to obtain judgment it's still likely the company would pay you without the need for bailiffs.
If they don't pay, then you can send the bailiffs to wherever the company has movable assets. However, if it's simply a residential management company it may have no such assets, or at least none worth seizing, in which case paying the bailiff's fees is throwing good money after bad.
So the very first thing that you - or anyone considering suing for money - need to consider is whether the debtor can actually pay. Getting a judgment is easy, but turning it into cash is often impossible.
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