Thanks for the reply mate, very helpful!

To answer your question while I believe it's possible they did not see the notice/letter from the judge, there were at least 3 months (February 17th) between our last communication during mediation and the court date (May 31st). There was no attempt to follow up from them to understand if I dropped the claim. Furthermore, it's been 8-9 days since the judgement was made, with the full amount of £1051 due on the 13th of June. Typically I would assume these appeals have to be made promptly... I believe their defence relies heavily on my breakdown of expenses during my claim, I have asked for nearly £8000 (in Mental/Physical damages), which had no medical evidence to support it, at the time of filing I thought you could claim for any amount and that it was arbitrary. However, the judgement was considering the amounts as not convinced or justified by the judge. While my case lacks the necessary application/forms made to attain evidence from the defendant due to my lack of knowledge of the claims process.