transport for london county court judgement

loveangel

I had my car towed away by transport for london in January 2008 and i had to go to the Charlton car pound to collect my car.
I asked for the appeal form and appealed but TFl ignored my appeal in stead preferring to hold on to my £275, but to add insult to injury the posted out another two notice to owners for two more tickets apparently issued for the same contravention although these tickets were not on my car when i collected it - only one pcn was on the car.
I appealed them too and they agreed one of them was a duplicate and teh other was an administrative error - presumably as opposed to a deliberate attampt to defraud me.
well 56 days passed and still no response so i filed in the county court agianst TFL - unbelieveably they ignored the county court summons and judgement was entered. that's when it got interesting as TFl have no official head office address and so the address that i had filed against was a po box address. The court service queried my judgement and refused to enter it as they said TFl was a government organisation and they cannot be sued in the county court - i pointed out that TFl was funded by local authorities and so was not central government - the matter went to a district judge and i was right and they were wrong.
So i paid for a warrant of execution to be issued for county court bailiffs to visit TFL - a response came back that the warrant was unenforceable as they coudl not exectute at a po box address - presumably the court asking for the fixed address linked to the PO box was a bridge to far for the enquiring mind of the bailiffs.
So then i simply fished around on the internet an di found an actual real address for TFl in Victoria. guess what they refused to allow County court bailiffs in and the civil servant bailiffs need to get permission from the district Judge to enter if refused entry - how outrageous - clearly the rights of crooks and dodgy parrking departments outweigh that of the individual to get their money back by follow the law.
personally i would have thought that bailiffs could just enter and arrest or get the police to arrest anyone who obstructs them, clearly the new law for civil enforcement that everyone's chums the dogooders favourite Labour have brought in means that everyone escapes all the debts unless they actually invite someone into their business to remove their computers.

I am surprised that Boris Johnson allows this cowardly behaviour by Transport for london, who refuse to pay their debts, i woudl have thought this put up the barricades mentality is more a lefty livingstone policy.

has anyone else had trouble getting a refund or appeal heard by TFL?

AlanG_3

Thanks . Interesting story.

Have you considered other enforcement methods.

Ordering Tfl to court to answer to their assets and income (Order to obtain information it is called)
That should be quite interesting.

Otherwise ask for garnishee proceedings where money is directly removed from their bank account to yours(or the courts)
Or you can order any money owed to them by another unfortunate soul is diverted to you. Both called a third party debt order.

All enforcement methods will be on county court websites.

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/infoabout/enforcement/index.htm

Else order that one of their buses is clamped , towed away and crushed.:D


Good luck

Alan