Auckland · NZBN 9429049993936

MAE Legal Server

Service of court documents across Auckland, with affidavits that hold up when service is challenged.

What a standard instruction produces

Strictly observed facts. No inference, no presumption, and paraphrased speech recorded as words to the effect that. Written to be sworn.

Work undertaken

Personal service

Statements of claim, bankruptcy notices, statutory demands, trespass notices, applications, orders and notices under the Property Law Act.

Repeat attendances

Multiple attempts at varied times, and at home, business and registered addresses, each one documented.

Filing and collection

Documents collected from chambers or the instructing firm, filed at the registry, and sealed copies returned.

Relationship property

Applications, affidavits in support and notices to respondent under the Property (Relationships) Act 1976, served without engaging on the substance.

Civil enforcement

Enforcement forms completed and filed, and summonses to financial assessment hearings served, including on Disputes Tribunal orders.

Before you instruct

What should I send?

The documents as a single PDF, the full name of the person to be served, the address, and any deadline the service has to meet. If a proceeding is already on foot, the file number helps. Hard copies can be collected from your office or chambers instead.

What else is worth telling me?

Anything you have about the person or the address. Vehicle, working hours, who else lives there, whether they are already avoiding contact, and whether there is any history of aggression. It usually decides whether the first attempt lands, and it is the difference between one attendance and four.

How quickly is it done?

I will tell you when I am attending at the point I acknowledge the instruction. Urgent work is taken on where the timeframe is realistic. If a deadline cannot be met I will say so up front rather than after the fact.

What if service cannot be effected?

You get the same record either way, and it is the evidence an application for substituted service is built on. Up to three attempts at the one address sit inside the service fee, and any further attendances are charged and agreed with you first.

How to instruct

Email the documents and what you know about the address, or ring and follow up by email. I’ll confirm receipt and come back on anything I need.

Terms

Coverage

Auckland metropolitan, wider Auckland by arrangement

Instructions

By email, or by phone with details to follow by email. Acknowledged within 24 hours

Payment

Due on invoice