Marston Holdings Visit

TonySoprano

Apologies if this is not the correct forum but two burly gentlemen arrived at my property from marstons holdings they were quite aggressive in their approach.

Anyway this is for a court fine issued to my son for a driving offence but he left over a year ago after a family dispute. All the letters I receive for him go back in he post not living at this address.

What I did was do a bit of research and found out that Lancashire fines issued the bailiff action so I called them to inform them he no longer resides at the property but their answer machine states if it has been past to Marstons they can no longer intervene and gave a number to contact Marstons

I contacted Marstons 0845 and was on hold for 30 mins before I spoke to customer services representative who said I need to provide proof to the bailiff’s he no longer lives at the address - I said how to I contact them and he said he would put me through directly to the enforcement officers. Again I was on hold for what seemed an age and eventually hung up do to the potential cost of the call

Can someone tell me if the action I am doing is correct and quite how I prove that my son no longer lives with us? BTW he is not on the polling register either

After some time hanging around in their van they eventually posted a letter through the letterbox addressed to my son and went on their way so how do i go about dealing with this as well who do I send this back to?

National_Debtline

Hi

It’s best to speak to the Fines Officer at the Magistrates Court to explain the situation. Despite what the recording says they do have the discretion to stop enforcement at your address.

There are a few different contact details here :
https://courttribunalfinder.service.gov.uk/courts/lancaster-magistrates-court

It’s a good idea to also inform them in writing and copy in Marstons.

It’s difficult to prove your son doesn’t live at your address though. Ideally he needs to contact the court himself to confirm where he does live, or at least that he doesn’t live at your address.

Although bailiffs collecting a Magistrates Court fine have the right to force entry into a property if they have reason to believe the debtor has possessions there, in practice this rarely happens. It’s more likely they’ll try to collect from there for a while and then pass the fine back to court if they don’t get anywhere.

James
@natdebtline