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Originally Posted by penumbra
After all, if you want to avoid someone walking into a legal rake, that's the best thing to do. Point them out and give reasons why. We will listen and learn.
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No. The best way to help someone avoid a legal rake is to not pretend to give them legal advice.
This Google advice is going to give people a false sense of security and lead them straight into the rake.
This thread has some useful information from people who have travelled along the same path but it's important that people realise that their circumstances might be subtly but fundamentally different; different evidence, changed approach by DL, that kind of thing. Advice by Google is never going to pick that up.
There's also some useful info from people pointing out that these are civil proceedings and not criminal proceedings for example, but what they can't do is explain to an individual person who's received one of these letters how that should effect them specifically.
The problem with Google law is that it never, ever, gets all the context behind what's been searched for, and that is absolutely vital. And even if some by miracle it did hit all the context, Google law isn't going to tell YOU as an individual what you're best approach should be.
And if it really is double miracle week and it does; who are you going to complain to if the advice is wrong and you get slapped with a £10k judgement?
If you still insist on me giving you a bit of advice after all of that, then it's:
Don't ignore the letter, get yourself some proper legal advice.
Happy?