First and foremost, stay calm and seek urgent legal advice as soon as you are served with the documents. Make sure that you record the date and time of service as usually you have only 28 days in which to file a defence. Your lawyer needs to be provided with all the information in relation to the claim being brought against you as he or she will need to respond to each and every single allegation in the documents. An allegation that is not responded to may be taken as an admission of fact.