There are provisions to set aside a judgment obtained in default or to extend the time for appealing it.\u00a0 This is made by application to the court on affidavit.\u00a0 It must be shown the application is made within a reasonable time after the defendant became aware of the judgment, that the defendant by default did not acknowledge service of the document in sufficient time to defend or have knowledge of the judgment in sufficient time to appeal and the defendant has a prima facie case to defend the action.<\/p>\n
In such an application the judgment may be set aside or the time for appeal may be extended on such terms as the court sees fit to designate.<\/p>\n\n
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EU & Other Convention Cases Where the summons has been issued out of the jurisdiction under the Judgements Regulation or the Lugano Convention, the claimant is not entitled to enter a judgement except with leave of Court. An application for leave to enter judgement must\u00a0 be made on notice and supported by an affidavit setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36011,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/36011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}