Oh help, Bailiff has levied on my neighbours car?!

RAS

Erm - do not usually out myself, but am female.

Sorry to wreck havoc on your thread, Faye

dancingfairy

Here is the National Debtline helpsheet which you may find useful - especially the bailiff charges.
You may also find the council has charged for a liability order - usually about 80 ish pounds in total (I think there is an application fee and an admin fee?) I think but check that no other fees have been added on apart from that and the bailiff fees.
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Icanandwillsavemoney

RAS wrote: »

Erm - do not usually out myself, but am female.

Sorry to wreck havoc on your thread, Faye

Oops - really sorry

jamesb1239

OP says that they were in bed and woke up to find what I can only assume was a Walking Posession Order posted through the letterbox. If so then regardless of whether the car is yours or not you wont have signed it so theres no risk of them coming taking it at the min!

+1 for asking your local MP to deal with it, thats what I did a while ago and it worked so for the cost of a stamp its worth a shot

RobertoMoir

jimbms wrote: »

Arrest warrent for unpaid council tax, hehehehe that should be fun.:rotfl:

Fun? What part of being arrested do you think is fun? It's quite possible for arrest warrants to be issued for non payment of council tax by the way. I've arrested no end of people for non payment of council tax.

The OP can relax however, as has been already mentioned this is a decision the council will take, not the bailiff, and any arrest warrant would be first done as arrest with bail which just means you have to promise to attend court at a certain time. Not pleasant by any means but not as bad as I'm sure the bailiff is making it sound.

Totally agree with contacting your local councillor (note, councillor, not MP). That usually works pretty well in cases like this. The councillor can speak to the right people very quickly and is not so easily fobbed off.

RobertoMoir

jamesb1239 wrote: »

OP says that they were in bed and woke up to find what I can only assume was a Walking Posession Order posted through the letterbox. If so then regardless of whether the car is yours or not you wont have signed it so theres no risk of them coming taking it at the min!

I assumed it would jsut be the levy itself - the bailiff does not require anyone's signature to complete a levy. The WPO is a good point though, if the original poster looks through their paperwork and finds the bailiff has completed a walking posession order and charged them for it without the poster's signature then this is well naughty and is useful ammunition for getting this back with the council.

toffe

What has your neighbour said? if i awoke one morning to find my car clamped by some bailiff for over a matter which had nothing to do with me they'd get a phone call giving them exactly 5 minutes to get back and remove the clamp before it got cut off and thrown in the nearest bin.

and if the cheecky sod had the brass neck to knock at my door asking for his clamp back he'd be going head first in the bin after it.

I'm amazed that people are claiming this is legitimate practise, i'm not an expert on bailiffs but it doesn't ring true to me that my vehicle could be seized legitimately over a debt relating to one of my neigbours.

If that was so bailiffs would be running round picking up cars like dale winton on a supermarket sweep.

RobertoMoir

toffe wrote: »

What has your neighbour said? if i awoke one morning to find my car clamped by some bailiff for over a matter which had nothing to do with me they'd get a phone call giving them exactly 5 minutes to get back and remove the clamp before it got cut off and thrown in the nearest bin.

and if the cheecky sod had the brass neck to knock at my door asking for his clamp back he'd be going head first in the bin after it.

Then you'd get nicked for the assault.
BTW I don't think anyone has clamped anything in this thread.

I'm amazed that people are claiming this is legitimate practise, i'm not an expert on bailiffs but it doesn't ring true to me that my vehicle could be seized legitimately over a debt relating to one of my neigbours.

I don't think anyone has said that clamping or even merely levying on someone else's car is "legitimate". The bailiffs can and do make certain assumptions about what might be the debtor's property that might lead them to making an "honest mistake", especially if the debtor is not at home to put them right.

For example: I borrow your lawn mower. Bailiffs visit my house, see the lawn mower and levy against it on the grounds that stuff on my property probably belongs to me; this could be held as perfectly reasonable behaviour. It would be legally trivial for you, the true owner of the lawn mower, to assert your ownership and stop them taking it and so you should because it's yours... but their originally assumption is also perfectly reasonable and "legitimate".

dfh

toffe wrote: »

What has your neighbour said? if i awoke one morning to find my car clamped by some bailiff for over a matter which had nothing to do with me they'd get a phone call giving them exactly 5 minutes to get back and remove the clamp before it got cut off and thrown in the nearest bin.

and if the cheecky sod had the brass neck to knock at my door asking for his clamp back he'd be going head first in the bin after it.

I'm amazed that people are claiming this is legitimate practise, i'm not an expert on bailiffs but it doesn't ring true to me that my vehicle could be seized legitimately over a debt relating to one of my neigbours.

If that was so bailiffs would be running round picking up cars like dale winton on a supermarket sweep.

It will infuriate me too if I found my car clamped over something that had nothing to do with me.

Faye449

Clamped? I didn't say clamped- there is no clamp!