mcol website down
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dave7108

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392 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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A parking company has made a county court money claim against me. The Moneyclaimonline website has been down all weekend. Ive tried all morning and it's timing out. The 14 day period is up today and being Bank holiday they are shut.

playalistic

2,270 posts

193 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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https://www.moneyclaims.service.gov.uk/eligibility...

They have a replacement service in beta that is up. Try that.

dave7108

Original Poster:

392 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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thanks for the mega quick reply il try that!

dave7108

Original Poster:

392 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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that seems to be if you are filing a claim against someone else. The letter I had from them gave the site www.moneyclaim.gov.uk

dave7108

Original Poster:

392 posts

183 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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Im on the beta site and still get this:


Unfortunately this online service is currently unavailable.
We’re very sorry for any inconvenience. As soon as we’re able to, we’ll update this message to confirm when the service will be available again.

If you need to meet a payment deadline or have an urgent tax query that needs addressing today please go to gov.uk/contact-hmrc for details of how to get in touch.

anonymous-user

83 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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not sure if this counts being online.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f2f...

''CPR, r. 2.8(5) provides that if the date for doing any act at the court office ends on a day in which the court office is closed then that act shall be carried out in time if it is done on the next day when the court office is open''

Meoricin

2,880 posts

198 months

Monday 22nd April 2019
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Email an acknowledgement of service (and your defence, if it's ready) to the Court and the Claimant. CCMCC are very slow at sorting things out and it's unlikely that the Claimant will go for default Judgment on the first available date - I don't work with parking firms, but in my industry we'd typically wait a good few days extra to avoid getting a Judgment prematurely.

The moment your response is uploaded to MCOL they won't be able to request Judgment as a bar will be put in place, so if you get on MCOL ahead of opening hours tomorrow you'll likely beat them to the punch too.

If they do get default Judgment, then you're going to be out of pocket your costs to get it set aside, but with evidence of attempted servce of the AOS/Defence, you'll almost certainly succeed - often even without a hearing when the application goes in immediately.