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Setting aside a default judgment: the two routes and the promptness trap
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Setting aside a default judgment: the two routes and the promptness trap

Written by John Barwell 16 September 202616 September 2026

A default judgment is not the end of a case. Part 13 of the Civil Procedure Rules builds in two routes back — one mandatory, one discretionary — and the route you take decides what you must prove. This guide sets out both routes, the promptness requirement the rule itself names, and the evidence an application has to carry.

CCJ: when a procedural judgment becomes a credit record
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CCJ: when a procedural judgment becomes a credit record

Written by John Barwell 24 June 202619 August 2026

A County Court judgment can move from court procedure into financial life. This Legal Lens article explains why a CCJ is not one simple thing, and why judgment, registration, credit consequences, payment, satisfaction, cancellation, set aside, variation and stay are different legal routes with different effects.

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