05-29-2026, 01:09 PM
@CD!, it’s not a solicitor acting for the claimant. It will just be the ‘tea boy: or a youth work experience bod talking to the mediator.
Don’t lose any sleep over the mediation call. It is a complete and utter waste of everybody’s time.
The only legal requirement is to “attend” the call. You offer £0 and that will be the end of the matter.
After the time wasting call, the case will be transferred to your local county court and you are then waiting for the Notice of Allocation to arrive in the post. When that arrives, please show it as it will contain the all important deadlines of hearing date and the deadline for the claimant to pay the £27 trial fee.
The trial fee deadline is usually four weeks before the hearing date. It is just before this deadline that DCB Legal will throw in the towel and discontinue the claim. Expect them to try and contact you with a reduced offer to settle. Ignore them. They will issue an N279 Notice of Discontinuance.
Then it will be over.
Don’t lose any sleep over the mediation call. It is a complete and utter waste of everybody’s time.
The only legal requirement is to “attend” the call. You offer £0 and that will be the end of the matter.
After the time wasting call, the case will be transferred to your local county court and you are then waiting for the Notice of Allocation to arrive in the post. When that arrives, please show it as it will contain the all important deadlines of hearing date and the deadline for the claimant to pay the £27 trial fee.
The trial fee deadline is usually four weeks before the hearing date. It is just before this deadline that DCB Legal will throw in the towel and discontinue the claim. Expect them to try and contact you with a reduced offer to settle. Ignore them. They will issue an N279 Notice of Discontinuance.
Then it will be over.
Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
