Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons.

So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance, in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses (Appendix II, section 5).

Both keep records of bankruptcies and judgements summonses filed in address order, covering the whole country (UAPT's nationwide register, opened in 1978, consisting of computer printed microfiche; CD's on filing cards).

In this regard the judgement summons procedure may be seen as a more extreme-because of the threat of imprisonment-version of the procedure under the Civil Procedure Rules procedure to obtain information from judgment debtors.