SERVICE POINTS 48 : A DEFAULT JUDGMENT IN THE FIRST ACTION (AGAINST A DEFENDANT WHO WAS NEVER SERVED) LEADS TO A SECOND ACTION BEING STRUCK OUT

This is a sorry tale. Someone who may have had a perfectly good claim for damages for personal injury has their case struck out because of  procedural mishaps by their own solicitors.   It all stems from a failure to serve a defendant properly in the first place, followed by a (on the face of it biz...