reclaiming court costs on a clocked car help!

kimbo16

I'm really not sure who can help me, my husband bought a car which we found to be clocked, I won't bore you with details but we took the case to small claims court last week and won.
My problem however is that we were not awarded the costs of the court fee's back?!
It means it was hardly worth trying to get the money back, surely this can't be right and now we are struggling for money.
I have also since found out that all he has to do is not pay us back and then it would cost us more money (that we haven't got now) to take it back to court.

I was wondering if there is an ombudsman I can take this too?
Any help would be much appreiciated.

vaio

the court costs should have been added to the claim, as you didn't I suspect you can't have another bite at that particular cherry

Any costs from now on to collect the debt can be added to the debt and so recovered. So if he owes £500 and it costs you £100 to send bailiffs in to collect then they will collect £600 worth of goods (assuming he has enough assets to pay)

wealdroam

kimbo16 wrote: »

My problem however is that we were not awarded the costs of the court fee's back?!

Have you checked with the court that this isn't just a mistake?