A CIVIL case against Keighley Town Council has been thrown out by a county court in Buckinghamshire.

A spokesman for High Wycombe County Court confirmed that that the case brought against the council by its former website provider mh-p Internet Limited has been "struck out" due to non-compliance with an order from the court.

Mh-p has successfully contested a previous dismissal of its case, which was caused by an administrative error. The company is suing the council for money it allegedly owes the business.

The hearing in High Wycombe was due to take place on July 14.

A spokesman for Keighley Town Council said: "The Claimant [mh-p Internet Limited] was requested to file with the court office and serve the defendant with a breakdown of the amount claimed, showing all the work done and materials supplied with copy documents.

"The claimant was also advised to pay the hearing fee of £80 or provide an application for fee remission with the required evidence by May 16, which the company failed to do.

"The council can confirm that the district judge at High Wycombe County Court has ordered that the claim is struck out, and the hearing listed for July 14 is vacated."

However, the director of mh-p Mike Henson, is challenging the decision.

Commenting yesterday (May 24) he said: "The case is currently struck out, but it is expected to be re-instated or re-scheduled within the next 10 days.

"The court wrote to us on May 4 and 5 regarding a 'Listing Fee', a 'Hearing Fee' and our papers. I've spoken to the court this morning and it seems our reply of May 9, where we responded to these letters has not yet been placed before the judge.

"In our letter we challenged the Hearing Fee because the fee has already been paid for the [earlier] hearing in Skipton. The fact that the judge at Skipton did not have our papers was not a fault on our side.

"We questioned the Listing Fee as these were abolished about three years ago.

"We also questioned the time allocated for the hearing – which had been notified as two minutes – and asked the court to confirm that our papers had been transferred from Skipton to High Wycombe."