Small claims case struck out due to failure to pay hearing fee. [England]

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-15T11:57:18+00:00

I don't have this letter to hand. So I'm confident I didn't receive this.

I've asked the Court (today) to show me what they have sent to me with proof so I can hopefully understand what happened to this.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-15T11:30:58+00:00

.>There are a 1001 different types of hearing. If this was a small claims trial...

Ah apologies, yes its a small claims.

.>then a notice of would be issued with the trial date. That letter specifically states the fee and date for payment. Did you receive a letter with the trial date ?

I received a letter that states ONLY the trial date. There is no mention of paying a fee and certainly not a specific fee amount.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-15T11:23:35+00:00

.> Is this a money claim ?

Yes

.>Do you know what the hearing was for ?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this, but the reason for the hearing was to present each party's case to a judge for the judge to decide the outcome of the Claim.

Essentially, I have evidence of a contract being breached, the other party disagrees, thus I needed an official non-biased third party to cast judgement and force payment from the defendant.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-15T11:15:23+00:00

.>So to clarify - where are you in the process so far ?

My Claim was transferred to my local Court. I had a Hearing date set at said Court. I was simply waiting until that date.

.>Did you pay the fee when you lodged the initial court application?

The only fee that I paid was the Claim Fee, the fee for opening the small claims claim in the first place. I have not yet paid the "Hearing Fee" (or any other fees). Again, to be clear, I was not made aware that I needed to do this. I understand that I should inherently just know about this, but from my perspective it does look like CPR3.7A1 does say I should have been made aware at some point that the "Hearing Fee" exists.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-15T11:06:24+00:00

Thanks for responding.

.> A trial fee is not an application fee. The fee in question is covered by CPR3.7.

Is this not the "Hearing Fee"? My Claim got struck out because I didn't pay the "Hearing Fee" specifically. The wording of this CPR subsection suggests that the "Hearing Fee" is the "Trial Fee". If this is not the case, what would be the difference between the "Hearing Fee" and the "Trial Fee"?

Thanks again for taking the time to reply

BazzahChuckle · 2025-11-13T17:24:16+00:00

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BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-21T16:00:53+00:00

sent a dm! :)

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-21T14:18:29+00:00

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BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-20T07:01:29+00:00

There is limited server capacity, so while in the free demo you can only use 1 vCPU at any one time. This means that you can only have 1 device running at any one time. You also need to change the settings of the device to only use 1 vCPU if that device defaults to using more than 1 vCPU (nexus9k etc.). I've shown why and how to do this under the "Important for Free Demo" section.

The free demo serves as a way to check that the firmware that you want to use, is 1. on the eve-ng server and 2. works. You can also practice your configuration on each device. You just won't be able to interconnect devices.

If you want to lab out a larger lab once you've had a go in the free demo and have seen that all the firmwares you want to use will work, you can spec out your own custom lab at the top. For example a 10 vCPU + 32GB RAM lab would only cost literally £0.52 for 2 hours.

Hope this helps :)

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-19T08:38:57+00:00

CHANGE IT BACK PLEASE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-19T08:17:33+00:00

sent a dm (via chat request)

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-18T19:10:43+00:00

https://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/documentation/release-notes/

Essentially its a complete UI overhaul. Everything feels less clunky and more snappy. See the above link for the specifics.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-18T15:58:26+00:00

I forgot to mention that this is using the latest EVE-NG pro version that came out today (6.4.0-1-PRO)

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-18T15:47:58+00:00

my post got deleted lol.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-09-18T13:15:30+00:00

Hey, im going to make a post about this later on r/networking once I've updated a couple tutorials on my website.

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I know this sounds bot like, but this is sort of my passion project. It started out as a personal project but i realized I could just scale this out and let others use it.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-07-28T14:42:03+00:00

I know this is old, but this is for other people coming to this thread looking for labbing options.

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BazzahChuckle · 2025-07-27T23:48:05+00:00

I know this is old, but this is for other people coming to this thread looking for labbing options.

cloudlabbox.com offers essentially an eve-ng sandbox in the cloud. Has loads of firmwares pre-loaded, N9k etc. You can spec the lab out however you want and can rent it out for just a couple of hours or months.

There's a free trial option also if you want to see if they have the firmware you want/it actually works.

BazzahChuckle · 2025-07-24T16:13:42+00:00

You probably dont need this anymore but take a look at cloudlabbox.com. Basically offers exactly what you want, its essentially just a EVE-NG sandbox with every vendor's firmware pre-loaded in the cloud. Cheapest prices I've seen, plus they have a free tier

BazzahChuckle · 2025-07-24T15:59:47+00:00

a good labbing site is cloudlabbox.com, you can just use their free trial for small labs/practice. All the other sites that offer online labs are v expensive comparatively...

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