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Ok, so an update.
I hadn't heard back from the Smalls Claims Court, tried to follow up a couple of times but after 30+ minutes in a telephone queue gave up, figuring it was just stuck in a backlog.
Today, for reasons I don't understand, I looked in our long disused mailbox (postie always pops the mail in the porch) and found, along with pizza delivery and blind selling flyers, two letters from the Small Claims Court.
The first said that it was a case that they would consider and that I needed to make a return, the second that if I didn't comply within week it would be struck out. Frustratingly the second deadline expired well over a month ago.
The first letter included the other parties 'defence' which had the usual irrelevance ("partner no longer lives at the house", "my mum didn't pay bills", "the bank would have likely challenged suspicious factors concerning the cheque" etc) but no refuting that the cheque was signed by the account holder.
This is really frustrating. I'm not really invested in recovering the money (ok, I am a bit) but more in getting closure and holding these people to account for chatting shit about my mum (I'm still not clear why, when they think that fraud is involved, they have not referred it to the police. Actually, I am sure).
I think I'm going to have to start the claim again (and check that bloody postbox!)