HELP Please! Marston bailiff coming to my dads!

bryanb

If you move before they come, brief your Dad to say you no longer live there, and refuse access.

RAS

Please ring NDL and report back.

if they cannot help ring the very expensive number on the link I gave you. It may be worth it.

farn1192

Thank, I will ring after work. I am in a real panic, have written to bailiffs and also a pleading letter to the court.....

RAS

farn1192 wrote: »

Thank, I will ring after work. I am in a real panic, have written to bailiffs and also a pleading letter to the court.....

Please STOP.

Ring NDL and talk to them before you send any letters.

farn1192

Ok, I have sought legal advice and they called marstons and the courts on my behalf. Courts arent willing to take the debt back and marstons are insistent on full payment and its with a local bully (bailiff) Lawyer advised me to turn up at court monday and request a means hearing for that day.

FTW

Chances are that the bailiff has 'exaggerated' his fees. Have you asked for a breakdown of what this sum is supposed to constitute? I think that should be your first port of call.

sp1987

farn1192 wrote: »

Ok, I have sought legal advice and they called marstons and the courts on my behalf. Courts arent willing to take the debt back and marstons are insistent on full payment and its with a local bully (bailiff) Lawyer advised me to turn up at court monday and request a means hearing for that day.

Lawyer was right. You are entitled to a means enquiry hearing. Get one.

http://www.bdl.org.uk/images/13_ew_magistratescourtfines.pdf

Explained here at page 5-6 are the means enquiry hearings. The court can do things such as detain you at court for the day which effectively writes off the fine, search your person for money to pay said fine...and other options which would be more what you would maybe expect.

Can you pay...is the question? If you cannot, and have not been able to...they are going to be a lot nicer to you.

Take proof of what you do/don't have financially. Plus evidence of any times you have tried to pay somebody something.

Plus, when the fine goes back to court for means enquiry the bailiffs fees disappear. So it would be irrelevant what they were. That's surely a plus.