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MrsAWatts
Justices' Clerk for
Humber & South Yorkshire
Doncaster Justice Centre South
College Road
Doncaster

DN13HS
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North East Lincolnshire
DN320QJ

Our ref: AW/CA

Dear Mr

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13 January 2017

Please find attached electronic copy of the signed final case, as requested.
The Rules supervising the initial procedures for appeals by way of case stated from decisions of
the magistrates' courts in respect of civil proceedings (council tax proceedings are civil
proceedings) are not the Criminal Procedure Rules as you have suggested in your
correspondence, but the Magistrates Courts Rules 1981 (MCR) and the Civil Procedure Rules
1998 (CPR) and Practice Direction 52E which supplements Part 52 of the CPR.
The MCR require service by the Court of the draft case upon both the applicant for a case to be
stated and the respondent, but the final case is served only upon the applicant by the Court under
the MCR. The Practice Direction states that it is for the appellant to lodge the final case in the
Administrative Court within 10 days of receipt thereof, and to serve a copy of the final case upon
the respondent within 4 days thereafter. Accordingly the final case has not been served on North
East Lincolnshire Council by the Court as it is the duty of the appellant to do so.
I shall be grateful if you will acknowledge receipt of this correspondence and the final case.
Yours sincerely

Mrs A Watts
Justices' Clerk - Humber and South Yorkshire