...as far as the hearing went, which was today It was a bankruptcy petition made by the agent of the agent of the 'alleged' creditor.(approx £3500fiat)
I turned up, all respectfully like, dressed in black, with a waxed black canvas (outback) hat. Electric blue tie, (such is the dress of the oclc in court)
Spoke to the clerk and informed her of the typo on the list, asked her to put rev. before my name.
She obliged. All good.
Was called into the room ( via surname - boo) wherein there was a rather nice looking lady sat at the desk, who I took as the magistrate.
I removed my hat in respect. Good morning 'ses I'
Good morning 'ses she' "Where's the other party?", her mag ses "is this matter resolved?"
'not as far as I know' - me
"mmmm" her mag "maybe there's been a error"
"I'm quite sure there has been ma'am"
“do you dispute the claim” she asks
“I most certainly do, this is no more than the plaintiff attempting to side track my auditing procedures, I have asked for standard proofs...contract...statement of loss and invoice, which has not been forthcoming.” I didn't want to go in to it too much..
“where does this leave proceedings?” I ask.
“well,.. it’s case dismissed” says she.
“And about my expenses?” I said “I had hoped...”
“yes, how far did you come today”
[she then made out an order to the other party to pay my expenses for travel]
“Thank you and good morning to you ma’am” I said..and left.
Result.
(wierd though, i was ready for bizness, (if only they were all like that eh..still...

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SOVEREIGN: not controlled by outside forces: autonomous; self-governing; independent "a sovereign people" <> "by any peaceful administritive means necessary" - the way of the order.