Litigation Letter
Address for service
Fairmays (a firm) v Palmer [2006] EWHC 96 (Ch); SJ 24 February
The difficulties for claimants seeking to effect service on a defendant for whom they do not have an accepted address for
service, whom they suspect may be abroad, is to issue concurrent proceedings for service abroad in respect of which an order
for alternative service on the last known address within the jurisdiction may be obtained. Service by post under CPR rule
6.5(6) addressed to the last known residence of the defendant within the jurisdiction is not proper service if at the time
of deemed service the defendant was in fact out of the jurisdiction.