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1982
Practice Note
Delay in Default Judgements
A matter of considerable concern to the profession over
the past few months has been the considerable delay in the
issuance of Default Judgments from the Central Office.
The Law Society has been doing its utmost to achieve an
improvement in the situation. The Law Society is informed
that the situation should improve materially over the next
fewmonths when it is expected additional overtime will be
done. Furthermore, the extendedjurisdiction ofthe Circuit
Court is expected to alleviate the position further.
The Law Society however is informed that a large factor
contributing to the delay is the number of documents that
have to be returned by reason oferrors in the Judgment sets.
The Law Society is informed thatthefollowingerrors aré
recurring and if avoided would help greatly to reduce the
backlog at present existing in this area viz:-
(a) Description of Deponent not given in Affidavits of
Debt and service.
(b) Incorrect date of issue, Record No. or Year of Issue
quoted on Affidavit of Service.
(c) Judgment form certificate and Praecipe not signed by
Solicitor.
(d) Addresses and descriptions ofparties to the Action not
recorded on Judgment form.
(e) Defective Jurats in Affidavits viz "sworn at Street in
the County o f '. The clause "and I know the Deponent''
omitted.
(f) Incomplete forms of execution and registration.
(g) Various errors or omissions on Summary Summons;
viz.
(i) where Plaintiff is a Limited Company, address
shown on Summons may read "place of residence
at" in lieu of "regd. office at",
(ii) inaccuracies in computation of addition and sub-
traction, miscalculation of interest amounts in
Bank claims,
(iii) insufficient or superfluous particulars in the in-
dorsement of claim (no advertance to forms of
Special Indorsement of Claim in Appendix B Part
III of the Rules). For example, in goods sold and
delivered claims the clause "at the request of the
Defendant" omitted. •
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