Talk:Default judgment

What about other jurisdictions?
The article discusses only English/Welsh law on the matter, but Scottish, American, and Australian courts generally have different interpretations on the matter... never mind those on the European continent, for example. How do they compare? 147.70.242.40 00:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes. In fact, I find it unclear whether most of the article is meant to be restricted to England and Wales, or whether the subsections have simply been indented improperly. Please clarify this in the article, perhaps by repeatedly starting the subsections with "In England and Wales," if that is what was intended.

Also, shouldn't there be at least one OTHER jurisdiction listed, to justify the indentation? Otherwise, the article should be retitled or the introduction should explain the article only pertains to one region. Parsiferon 00:40, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

The article says in practice that relief is usually granted. Are there any statistics regarding judges granting versus denial of motions to set aside, for state civil courts, for motions made in compliance with the rules of procedure? jleot — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jleot (talk • contribs) 02:50, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

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Question
If someone is sued -- let's assume for the sake of argument that the complaint is obviously without merit -- and cannot appear because they are too poor to make the trip to the court or hire a lawyer, does that mean that they automatically lose and own the person who sued them whatever they claimed damages are? Or does the court look at the case and rule on its merits whether of not both parties show up? --Guy Macon (talk) 00:08, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Default Judgement
I had an edit I submitted regarding the definition of default judgements deleted by another user when my edit is based on a court judgement sey down on the 13th November 2020. People need to be aware that the law has changed regarding default judgements because a defendant no longer has to reply to an application made against then and that the applicant can be punished for complying with court rules and procedures. The decision was handed down in the Federal Circuit Court in Melbourne Australia under court file number MLG3821 of 2019. It is now precedent law that can be used by any defendant that does not wish to comply with a court action. Skinman17 (talk) 10:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)


 * It doesn't make sense to have that paragraph in the beginning of the article when it's very specific and the scope of the article is about default judgments in general. Mentioning the court procedures leading to the decision also seems unnecessary, and the information for the other countries doesn't include it either. If you want, you can create a section under "Specific Jurisdictions" for Australia and mention the ruling. Additionally, do you have any articles or sources to use for this new information? They would be useful. Autonaut333 (talk) 06:38, 15 December 2020 (UTC)