Can a 'lost court case' incurred fees(winners costs) be included into a current DMP ?

Galeeno

if you are a in a court case, as a claimant (plaintiff) in a court case, and you eventually lose the case,!

and have to end up paying the defendants costs (say the defendants put a cost of £20,000 for the claimant to pay, if the defendants win their case), and they get the courts to ask the claimant to pay this £20,000,



(if the claimant cannot afford to pay this £20,000, they have no savings and no property, no assets)



Then if you are already in a debt management plan (Payplan for eg)

then can this debt of £20,000 be included/added to the debt management plan? (by phoning payplan)?


This is about adding a NEW court debt from the lost court case, to a current (already debt management plan)

CKhalvashi

There should be no issue with it, as it will ensure that the person in question gets paid what they're owed.

sourcrates

This is from the Stepchange website :


How are court fines collected?

The court will issue a collection order explaining how you should pay the fine. This will usually be:

• Payment in full
• Weekly or monthly instalments
• An attachment of earnings, where payment is taken straight from your wages
• A deduction from benefits, where payment comes straight from a DWP benefit

This refers to "fines" but I would assume costs would be collected in a similar way, you should give Stepchange a call to clarify this.

CKhalvashi

https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part-44-general-rules-about-costs#rule44.9

This will be more relevant, however isn't related to debt in itself.