Re: Avoiding a summons: I am to be served with an Ordinary Civil Bill, done nothing w
Defending a civil bill takes time, money and stress. In this case there are five defendants, three of which are, in effect, the state. I want to delay so that I can be indemnified by the state on whose behalf I was acting when this matter came up. On top of that, I live on a very small pension and I simply can't afford to incur debts that I can't pay and that I'm certain won't be paid by the plaintiff when he loses. The third reason is that I have a number of chronic illnesses and I'm supposed to avoid stress. It's very stressful to be wrongly accused of something and to be drawn in to the inexorable processes of the law. A person's life can be seriously messed up just because someone takes a case against them. It doesn't matter if it's totally without justification - you're forced to defend it.