HELP - Small Claims Court tomorrow

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Please help! Any advice or experience appreciated.

DH and I have to go to small claims court tomorrow. However, we have ignored the whole thing - not submitted documents or paid the court fees. Basically stuck our heads in the sand.

We don’t know whether to attend or whether it is too late to do anything and the decision will have already been made as we haven’t done what we should have done.

The one thing that is on our side is that when the other side made the claim, it went to mediation. We got everything ready for that and spoke to the mediator but the claimant didn’t answer the phone. (This also resulted in the claim being moved to a court that is only 30mins rather than 3hrs away from us)

We do owe some money but not the amount that is being claimed.
They haven’t given any proof, paperwork, receipts etc to back up their claims.

I did explain this in our original online response, in which I was as thorough as possible.

TLDR
We haven’t submitted what we should have in advance of court date. Is it worth attending?

I think that you can forget about it now, they've wasted enough of your time. It's up to the claimant to chase you for the money owed and if they didn't pay the court fee then they have probably written it off or simply don't have the proof or receipts. I've never heard anything since my case was dismissed - I'd offered (a generous) 50% at mediation and expected to be asked for that at some point but I heard nothing more. Sometimes people are aware that their prices/strategy are a rip off and have a 'win some, lose some' approach.

Surely if the claimant didn’t attend court it was dismissed and you have no case to answer?

You no longer have to answer to that case OP.
struck out means it’s over