You have to go to court, and you do not have a lawyer.
This is a place to work out what happens next. Free, plain English, and written for the night before rather than the semester before.
Start with how much time you have
My hearing is almost here
What can still be done tonight, what to say when your matter is called, and why turning up matters more than being ready.
Start here → Days or weeksI have been served something
What the document actually is, what clock it started, and what happens if that clock runs out.
Work out the deadline → No date yetI want to understand how this works
How a court list runs, who everyone in the room is, what a registrar expects, and the words that get used without explanation.
Read the guides →If it is a company, not you
A creditor is trying to wind up your company
Statutory demands and winding up
Which document you have, a calculator for the real deadline, the options, and what voluntary administration actually does and does not do.
Work out the deadline →Start there, not here
The rest of this site assumes you can speak for yourself. A company generally cannot be heard without a lawyer, so the company pages are written differently and that guide says so on its first screen.
What is here
Three things, and no advertising dressed up as help.
Process guides
How the thing you are caught up in actually runs, step by step, in the order you will meet it. Written to be read once, quickly, under pressure.
Documents you can adapt
Affidavits, letters to the other side, replies a court has asked for in a set format. With notes on what each part is for.
Open the templates →Worked cases
Real problems taken apart properly, with names and identifying details removed. What the issue was, what the law said, and what the person did about it.
Being straight with you
What this is not
It is not legal advice
Nothing here is advice about your case, because nobody here knows your case. It is information about how the process works. If you can get a lawyer, get one.
Nobody here is acting for you
Reading this does not make anyone your lawyer, and no one is going to appear for you because you read it. Your deadlines remain yours.
Some things cannot be published
Family law proceedings cannot be reported in a way that identifies the people in them. That is the law, not a preference, so those cases are not covered here.
Every case here is de-identified
Worked cases are used only once they are over, with consent, and with the details that could identify anyone removed.