But also suprisingly in the UK a lot less sueing goes on per person than in the US...
In the UK you can represent yourself, and all you have to pay is court fees which are less than $100 a believe...
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But also suprisingly in the UK a lot less sueing goes on per person than in the US...
In the UK you can represent yourself, and all you have to pay is court fees which are less than $100 a believe...
Don't you also have loser-pays laws though. If you lose a lawsuit you must pay the other person's legal fees?
really? so if the the other person had a super-expensive attorney, you would have to pay for him?
In the UK you can claim for court fees easily, and book online. However (having used the system to recover debts of more than £1000) I can say that winning isn't the end of the story. You still have to *collect* the debt, and this can be far trickier.
Secondly, the claimant can apply to change where the hearing is, so our defenant had it moved to her local court. So the idea of holding the hearing a long way from the person you are suing is not necessarily going to work - especially if they get legal advice. All claims booked using MoneyClaim.gov.uk are held at Northampton court because that's the one with most spare capacity. I would guess most people who book these types of cases never actually attend court (either as claimant or defendant)..
If anybody wants more information on the mechanics of actually doing this in the UK I'm happy to be PMed by anyone. I am not a lawyer though :)
I didn't think the defendant had the right to set where the hearing was held. I thought that right was reserved for the claimant. At least, that's what I heard on some legal phone in thing on the radio.Quote:
Originally Posted by aj8
Interesting how this thread goes from making money with AWS to sueing people :p
LOL..
I need to check this .. my case was tricky.
Summarising : we won a judgement in default at northampton, she applied to have it set aside (said she'd never received documentation). At the same time she moved proceedings to her local court. We attended and tried to fight the set-aside. Lost that (giving her time to file a defence). She never filed a defence within the given time limit. We applied for another judgement in default. Won it. Came to a settlement with her solicitor and collected :)
SO she did move proceedings... But it might have been to do with the set aside. I'm still fairly sure the defendant has the right to move it to a court close to them.
Nice. With his site, unless you've seen AWS sites before, you have no idea it's an Amazon site!!!! Mine are UGLY compaired to his!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Billyray
As for retirement, I did that last Thursday! The geology lab I worked at for almost 10 years moved and now I do this full time. :D:D:D Right now I'm not even doing anything with AWS sites or affiliate programs, instead I'm updating, er resurrecting *gasp* content sites I stoped updating two years ago, some Nintendo sites!! Amazingly these video game sites are still my #1 source for AdSense earnings, 1/6th the pageviews, but over half the earnings, hence the updating them again, since I got an extra 40 hours a week to look at a computer screen, and one site's #5 and 6 in Google out of 17,000,000!!
As for AWS earnings, since June 1st 2003 I've made $20,015.73. With around $1-2,000 not being from the AWS script, but from content sites. Last quarter was just $1170.12, and for the year, $6,339.46 plus $7,637.05 from selling the mod_rewite hack that crashed my earnings!! grrrrrrr.....
Geez it's interesting that you can say grrrr at the same thing you're selling. Up the price.