Legal advice on summons and summary proceedings

Questioner

Hello, at the beginning of this year I received a letter of formal notice from a lawyer that I was no longer allowed to contact my 'brother in law'. This contact had already stopped before the formal notice, but that is besides the point. My partner recently sent a letter to my sister, and in this letter he told me a few things about my brother-in-law. Based on that, we were summoned for summary proceedings at the provisional relief judge, which has now been held but no verdict has been given yet. Now my question is, I am the one who was ordered not to contact. The notice was sent to me alone. Shouldn't my partner have first received a formal notice before a summons was issued in which we were both summoned? The plaintiff's lawyer states that we are one party because my partner was of course aware of this letter of formal notice and is aware of it.

Lawyer

As long as there is no summary judgment, the opposing party's lawyer can issue whatever summons he wants. You don't have to worry about that - if you want to. Only after the verdict will it become clear whether there are indeed grounds for a contact ban.