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The hearing was yesterday. The defendant didn’t turn up and the judge viewed in my favour. They will be sending a court order to the defendant to pay the debt within 14 days.
I just looked the defendant’s company up on companies house and there is a First Gazette Notice of compulsory strike off from 2 April.
Could this be an attempt to avoid the court order or just coincidental timing?
They had a strike off notice back in Aug 2023, but it was discontinued the following day.I appreciate I’ve replied without knowing what type of law you practice but any help would be massively appreciated!
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Enough with the legal update.
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Could this be an attempt to avoid the court order
No, a voluntary strike off might be, albeit a dumb one. You can object the striking off, which should lead to its suspension until you're paid
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Could this be an attempt to avoid the court order or just coincidental timing?
Coincidence. This is Companies House pushing the strike off as the company hasn't provided some documents (normally accounts or confirmation statement) so it's on Companies House's timetable.
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The hearing was yesterday. The defendant didn’t turn up and the judge viewed in my favour. They will be sending a court order to the defendant to pay the debt within 14 days.
I just looked the defendant’s company up on companies house and there is a First Gazette Notice of compulsory strike off from 2 April.
Could this be an attempt to avoid the court order or just coincidental timing?
They had a strike off notice back in Aug 2023, but it was discontinued the following day.I appreciate I’ve replied without knowing what type of law you practice but any help would be massively appreciated!
Glad to hear you got a win. Is your claim and the order made by the court against the Defendant as an individual or against the Defendant's company? If it's the former, then the fact their company is about to be struck off is irrelevant, unless your claim should have been brought against the company rather than the individual, in which case all bets are off.
If the claim and the order are against the company then you need to object to the company being struck off, which you can do here - https://www.gov.uk/object-to-a-limited-company-being-struck-off/make-an-objection .
It's proabably just coincidence though, applying Hanlon's Razor.
mespilus
gbj_tester
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Brommers
Suit and tie would be conventional, but anything tidy would be fine. I take it you're at Central London in the Thomas More building in front of one of the District Judges?