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Quote from: b789 on July 04, 2025, 12:13:33 pm

What is the date of the hearing?

2 September 2025 at 10:45am, it’s quite hard to find above I agree.
Reply #95 has it.

Exactly right

They seem to have paid quickly after that last email. Below is what they said. I have also checked and can confirm payment.


Dear Sirs,

We can confirm that our Accounts team have paid the £104.50 in full and final settlement of your costs on 04/07/2025.

We now invite you to email the Court confirming that your costs have been settled and request that the Hearing dated 02/09/2025 be vacated.

If the money is in your account, then here are two emails you should send, one to DCB Legal and one to the court:

Dear Mr Kirby,

I acknowledge receipt of the £104.50 in full and final settlement of my costs, as per your offer and my conditional acceptance dated 28 June 2025. The condition of cleared payment has now been satisfied, and the matter is therefore concluded.

For the record, your client’s failure to pay promptly — and your silence for over a week following my acceptance — was entirely unreasonable. It necessitated further correspondence and caused unnecessary delay, all of which could have been avoided had your client acted with basic procedural courtesy and professionalism.

I will notify the court that the costs have now been settled and that I no longer require the hearing on 2 September 2025. That notification will make clear that the hearing was only necessary due to your client’s failure to notify me of the discontinuance and the subsequent delay in honouring the agreed settlement.

Yours sincerely,

[Your Name]

And you must send this to the court:

Subject: Claim No. [Insert Claim Number] – Costs Hearing on 2 September 2025

Dear Sir/Madam,

I write in relation to the above matter. I confirm that the claimant has now paid the agreed sum of £104.50 in full and final settlement of my costs, as per my conditional acceptance dated 28 June 2025.

Accordingly, I no longer require the costs hearing listed for 2 September 2025 and am content for it to be vacated.

For the record, the hearing was necessitated by the claimant’s failure to notify me of the discontinuance and their subsequent delay in honouring the agreed settlement. I was not served with a copy of the N279 Notice of Discontinuance, contrary to CPR 38.3(1)(b).

Yours faithfully,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Your Contact Details]

If the money is in your account, then here are two emails you should send, one to DCB Legal and one to the court:

Quote

Dear Mr Kirby,

I acknowledge receipt of the £104.50 in full and final settlement of my costs, as per your offer and my conditional acceptance dated 28 June 2025. The condition of cleared payment has now been satisfied, and the matter is therefore concluded.

For the record, your client’s failure to pay promptly — and your silence for over a week following my acceptance — was entirely unreasonable. It necessitated further correspondence and caused unnecessary delay, all of which could have been avoided had your client acted with basic procedural courtesy and professionalism.

I will notify the court that the costs have now been settled and that I no longer require the hearing on 2 September 2025. That notification will make clear that the hearing was only necessary due to your client’s failure to notify me of the discontinuance and the subsequent delay in honouring the agreed settlement.

Yours sincerely,

[Your Name]

And you must send this to the court:

Quote

Subject: Claim No. [Insert Claim Number] – Costs Hearing on 2 September 2025

Dear Sir/Madam,

I write in relation to the above matter. I confirm that the claimant has now paid the agreed sum of £104.50 in full and final settlement of my costs, as per my conditional acceptance dated 28 June 2025.

Accordingly, I no longer require the costs hearing listed for 2 September 2025 and am content for it to be vacated.

For the record, the hearing was necessitated by the claimant’s failure to notify me of the discontinuance and their subsequent delay in honouring the agreed settlement. I was not served with a copy of the N279 Notice of Discontinuance, contrary to CPR 38.3(1)(b).

Yours faithfully,

[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[Your Contact Details]

Thank you. I've sent them. I had to do some digging for the court address, I hope it's the correct. I sent it to enquiries.reading.countycourt@justice.gov.uk and received a reasonably relevant automated response.

The gov's court finder site suggests that's the right email address.

Brilliant.... thank you