Some time ago I did a post about the withdrawal of up to date information and guidance from the CLG website.
I now find that they have messed around with the Court Service website. I know it is as a result of administrative changes but it is really annoying.
The Court Service website was very useful. It had County Court addresses and contact details, court forms and a useful search index which was how I found a helpful notice on tenancy deposit claims (which I discuss here).
Now everything is moved over to the Direct.gov site and the Justice site. So I no longer know where anything is any more.
The court forms are now on the Justice site here.
However I have not been able to find the court details and addresses. I can find individual court details by doing a search on the court name in Google, but the court finder service was very useful to me. If you know where it has gone please leave a message.
Likewise the helpful notice about tenancy deposit claims seems to have disappeared without trace.
However, strangely the enormously helpful and informative Residential Property Tribunal service website is still there. PLEASE don’t move it!
I do wish that government would stop messing around with public service websites. It causes huge inconvenience all round as none of our links work any more. I can remember the same sort of frustration years back when then got rid of the ODPM website.
A message to government. Can you leave the sites alone now. Please?
Hi Tessa
I agree with you that this is a real nuisance. You can still get the court addresses. Follow the forms link and you’ll find yourself back in the old Court Service website which has all thta information. This means that they haven’t changed the website – just hidden it behind a facade
Simon
Ah, thanks, I now have the Court finder, which for the benefit of anyone reading is here http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/HMCSCourtFinder/CourtList.do
Yes you are right it has become a bit tedious to go through it. It is ok to bring new changes but its not ok to omit easy one.
Hi Tessa Nigel here I found your new blog from this blog http://www.solicitorsonlineblog.co.uk/2011/01/01/the-turn-of-the-year-and-the-start-of-a-decade/ Anyhow yes why do they keep moving things really when it was fine where it was. I mean I just think like the old saying “If its not broke don’t fix it” Nice blog this is by the way.