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Anon@ 16:13

If you have an incorrect address, you're not going to be able to do much other than wave an expensive piece of paper around.

But the proposal isn't to prevent you getting the judgment. Let's say you get the judgment at an incorrect address, and then trace the debtor and send in the bailiff. At that point debtor has 21 days to swear a stat dec to say she didn't know of the claim.

Court sets the judgment aside as of right without further ado, and claim is served on new address. You either get judgment again, or case is defended. No problem.

So long as limitation is deemed suspended from date of issue of the original process.

If defendant lies on stat dec then it's perjury and seven years in the slammer.

If you think defendant will lie, then you personally serve.

In fact I fail to see how the current system has ever been considered compatible with article 6 ECHR.