Baliff Issues - Advice needed please

Brit-Wifey

Culex wrote: »

And, looking on the bright side, at least Newlyns didn't use threats of rape as one American company did.

OMG :eek: The lengths that some people will go to! Money really is the root of all evil lol

Culex

HappyMJ wrote: »

It is....but it isn't quite a lie. It's stretching the truth. It means if you pay council the amount that is due to them then you are still liable for the fees incurred so far to the bailiffs. However, they are not enforceable by the liability order and they would need to take you to the county court to enforce those. Then they may get a CCJ and then they can enforce them. If you paid them first they will use the money to pay their own fees first before forwarding any to council which is why they want the money paid to them first.

Thus, the council will end up with next to nothing after the bailiffs have exacted their exorbitant fees and the debtor will have to pay them again.

In this case, the liability order and consequent enforcement action seem to have been the result of maladministration by the council's troop of trained simians, so those costs should be recovered from the council and/or the company contracted to collect council tax.