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Small Claims advice needed please.

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  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    Found out who owns the company, but when I visited their address it is just basically a shed in a garden centre, so if I was to go to the small claims and instruct the bailiffs there would be nothing there of value. So....would I be better off to keep hunting and find out his home address and serve the summons there, or are the bailiffs allowed to go to any address he resides at to get the money?? (Sorry, new to this)
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • Equaliser123
    Equaliser123 Posts: 3,404 Forumite
    davemorton wrote: »
    Found out who owns the company, but when I visited their address it is just basically a shed in a garden centre, so if I was to go to the small claims and instruct the bailiffs there would be nothing there of value. So....would I be better off to keep hunting and find out his home address and serve the summons there, or are the bailiffs allowed to go to any address he resides at to get the money?? (Sorry, new to this)

    If it is a company (i.e. limited liability - Ltd after the name) then you must serve at its registered office or another trading address.
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
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    edited 2 June 2010 at 10:29AM
    No, its just a business, sole trader is it called??
    (Just keep calling it a company through habit, sorry)
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
  • Equaliser123
    Equaliser123 Posts: 3,404 Forumite
    davemorton wrote: »
    No, its just a business, sole trader is it called??
    (Just keep calling it a company through habit, sorry)

    OK, then serve at home address or business premises.
  • davemorton
    davemorton Posts: 29,084 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    OK, then serve at home address or business premises.

    If I served it at the business address, would the bailiffs only be able to take stuff from that address (if it got that far) or could they go to his house address too?? (As if they could only get equipment from the address used in court, then I would have to find his house address out and serve it there).
    “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
    Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires
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