It's "breach of the peace." (How did you come up with... oh, never mind.)
We have no way of knowing why you didn't get notice. If you were supposed to get notice from the court, perhaps you gave them the wrong address or failed to keep them notified of your new address. If you were supposed to get notice through your lawyer, you can figure out whether your lawyer was getting notices and, if so, why he wasn't contacting you.
If you don't trust your lawyer to represent you properly, there's no harm in consulting another lawyer to potentially take over your case.

