Money forcefully taken

zartub

Exile_geordie wrote: »

Ill be brutally honest and will probably get shot down here BUT are you ever coming back to this country? If so I wouldnt bother paying your old Landlady or anyone else and just let the matter drop.

HA HA that's what you call money saving ( unbelievable ) :rotfl:

zzzLazyDaisy

YOU completely messed up. YOU, no-one else.

All this 'go to court, enter mitigating circumstances and we'll send you a revised invoice' stuff is utter nonsense.

Once the case gets to court, you admitted the debt (or part of it) and got a CCJ for that amount. With the CCJ comes instructions on how to pay. You didn't pay and they sent the bailiffs in - as they are entitled to do. They are also entitled to add their court costs, including bailiffs costs to the unpaid debt.

You were fully aware that you had left the country leaving an unsettled court debt behind and did nothing about it. If you had really wanted to pay it before you left, you would have contacted the court for advice.

The bailiffs turned up at the door of your last known address (as they are entitled to do) and demanded the money (that's their job). Your landlady chose to pay the money on your behalf. So the debt is settled and the bailiffs have gone away. They have done what they are paid to do, and what they are authorised by the court to do.

So now you owe the money to your former landlady, who didn't deserve the hassle and distress that you brought to her door. Either do the right thing and send her the money.... or do another disappearing trick and let her sing for the money. Depends where your conscience lies.

All this to avoid paying £65? Jeezzzz!

D

acece

There was no instruction on how to pay. I was asked to wait for the new invoice to be issued, which was never issued. I called several times and nothing. Last time they told me that it's been placed on permanent hold.

They did not send any more invoices until they sent one for £202. How is this my responsibility? How long did I have to chase them to get the invoice?

MamaMoo_2

Tbh, the advice you're getting here is mostly crap.
The bailiffs had no right to take any money or property from this lady. They also had no right of entry. The police know naff all, but they too were in the wrong. Unfortunately, most of the damage is done.
Head over to http://www.bailiffhelpforum.co.uk for some better advice.

JReacher1

Why was your landlady opening your post in the first place? Should she not have just sent it back with "not at this address" on it.

I think once you pay these people its very difficult to get the money back. Good luck but I think you've lost this money.

spacey2012

We do not even know if they were Baliffs or just debt collectors sent by a PPC.
So morals have little place until we establish some facts.
Who was this "debt" with, is a court fine ? a council penalty charge or a CCJ from a private parking firm.

WTFH

You should have paid the £130 in the first place.

it's not someone else's fault that you broke the law
it's not someone else's fault that you were out of the country and couldn't pay the bill in time.
don't blame someone else for things that you should be responsible for - i.e. your actions.

ValHaller

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

So now you owe the money to your former landlady, who didn't deserve the hassle and distress that you brought to her door. Either do the right thing and send her the money.... or do another disappearing trick and let her sing for the money. Depends where your conscience lies.

I am surprised at you Daisy, for conflating the legal and the moral.

The Landlady was a fool for paying the bailiffs and for letting herself be bamboozled by an apparent lie from the police.

The warrant, as you surely know, is not good for taking any of the Landlady's goods. The money was taken wrongfully

Now suppose OP was minded to contest the matter further. Is it right that he should be bounced into paying by his landlady forcing his hand? Said landlady should be getting her money back from the bailiffs for misrepresentation. ANd the appropriate legal perspective is how she should recover the money.

The moral perspective is of course that OP should have acted to ensure that the bailiffs did not land and his former landlady - and he should assist her in recovering the money, perhaps standing her losses until her money is recovered.

Hintza

Perhaps the old lady has a grandson or nephew who works for Executive Outcomes and offers to get the money back for her.

Either way if you stiff her be prepared for that old saying "what goes around, comes around"!

JReacher1

Hintza wrote: »

Perhaps the old lady has a grandson or nephew who works for Executive Outcomes and offers to get the money back for her.

Either way if you stiff her be prepared for that old saying "what goes around, comes around"!

They've said all through this thread they have no intention of stiffing her!