Exactly. If he's ignoring post from the courts over legal proceedings, what other post is he not having checked? Calls to appear before inquiries? results from the paternity tests?, etc. It becomes an "excuse" for not doing anything. When I took somebody to County Court they (the defendant) were playing games pretending letters never arrived and my solicitor reassured me that the courts are well aware of the silly games people play in the hope it will just disappear (which it never does).Mike Sales wrote: ↑15 May 2021, 10:31amSurely, amongst his staff, there is somebody not only with paperknife skills but also competent to sort the correspondence and pass it on to the relevant person. I would hope the P.M.'s office could make up for his own disorganisation.thirdcrank wrote: ↑15 May 2021, 10:22am I'm no fan of Boris Johnson but I find the explanation here entirely credible. AIUI, in layman's terms, the online county court application system is designed for simplicity and so is streamlined. This is largely to avoid a claimant having to elicit a response from an unresponsive defendant, but it can mean that if the defendant is a large commercial organisation, then the relevant bit may simply be unaware since the correspondence will go to what's been specified by the claimant. The setting aside procedure is intended to cover just such circumstances.
Now, Boris Johnson isn't a large commercial organisation, but I can see that he won't be there every morning with the paperknife (real or virtual) opening all the correspondence.
Ian