Chase Investigations Boxset 1 by Angus McLean

Author:Angus McLean [McLean, Angus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

Mike had gone straight from home to an early appointment in Onehunga, where he took a statement from a guy who’d been involved in a car crash a week ago. He had been crashed into by an old lady in a supermarket car park, causing moderate damage to both cars and, he claimed, whiplash and back pain to himself.

As far as Mike could see he was trying to milk some compensation, but he took the statement and committed the guy to a story, then took a couple of photos for the file.

From there he’d taken the Southwestern Motorway south across the Manukau Harbour, getting off at Manukau and dropping the car in the mall carpark. He took a manila folder with him and crossed over to the Manukau District Court, making his way through the usual throngs of criminals and deadbeats hanging around outside-including defence lawyers, who he considered to be worse than most of their clients.

The District Court office was busy as usual and he waited in line for 15 minutes behind lawyers filing legal aid claims, members of the public wanting to know what courtroom they had to go to, and a couple of cops getting search warrants sworn. Finally he got to the counter and told the habitually-disinterested clerk that he had some affidavits to swear.

She sighed heavily and called a number of different extensions, trying to find someone to come and do it.

‘Can’t you do it?’ Mike asked impatiently, and she sighed heavily again.

‘No, I’m not trained.’

‘How much training does it take? It’s just an affidavit.’

‘Look, it’s got to be a deputy registrar or above, okay? I’m only a 1.’

‘A what?’

‘A 1.’

‘What do you have to be?’

She sighed again, as if explaining this to a child.

‘A 2, of course.’

‘Oh.’ Mike shook his head in wonder. ‘Of course, how silly of me.’

He waited another five minutes while she found someone who could actually help, quickly swore four affidavits of service and filed them with their accompanying documents. All related to notices served on debtors in civil claims that he’d served in the last two days.

‘This one was only issued yesterday,’ the deputy registrar noted as she checked one of the affidavits, casting an appraising eye at him over her glasses.

‘And served last night.’ He gave her a big grin. ‘Early bird catches the worm.’

He left her to mull that and went back the way he’d come. As he crossed the front courtyard towards the steps he saw his ex-wife heading towards him, a large coffee in one hand, trailing a trolley bag behind her and chatting to a young guy who was probably a junior at her firm. Penny saw him too and held his gaze as the gap closed.

‘Why the face?’ she asked waspishly, ‘seen a ghost?’

‘No,’ he retorted, ‘just a witch.’

Her jaw dropped and Mike walked past, silently grinning to himself. It was always nice to get one over her, and too rarely did it happen for his liking. If it had been a rugby

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