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High Court Enforcement Woes
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A Wedding supplier no showed our Wedding back in 2019 and we were not covered under our Insurance as we'd paid using paypal far in advance which also cancelled out claiming via paypal.
Filed MCOL paperwork and company contested the initial paperwork then no showed in Court and Judgement was awarded in my favour. They did not respond to the judgement and I hired a well known Bailiffs and High Court Enforcement company to act on my behalf. Then Covid-19 hit and the company closed their office's and stated on their website there would be an announcement of a new office in July. Bailiffs informed me it would be best to wait until then so they could attempt to collect the money owed from the new office.
Company appears to be going into administration and looks like it has very limited assets and prior to the alleged office reopening (which didn't happen and they appear to have done a runner with lots of peoples money) the Bailiffs advised me if this was the case it would be best to 'cut my losses' and they would refund me the initial fee I paid them. Since July I have been trying to get hold of the Bailffs by email and phone and messages go unreturned. Role on today when I get an e-mail notifying me they have been granted a 'sealed writ of control' and have sent notice of enforcement to the company.
I am concerned I am going to be liable for the admin fees from the Bailiffs for acting on my behalf despite me not agreeing to their most recent action.
I'm not sure what my next move should be other than continuing to try and contact the Bailiffs?
Filed MCOL paperwork and company contested the initial paperwork then no showed in Court and Judgement was awarded in my favour. They did not respond to the judgement and I hired a well known Bailiffs and High Court Enforcement company to act on my behalf. Then Covid-19 hit and the company closed their office's and stated on their website there would be an announcement of a new office in July. Bailiffs informed me it would be best to wait until then so they could attempt to collect the money owed from the new office.
Company appears to be going into administration and looks like it has very limited assets and prior to the alleged office reopening (which didn't happen and they appear to have done a runner with lots of peoples money) the Bailiffs advised me if this was the case it would be best to 'cut my losses' and they would refund me the initial fee I paid them. Since July I have been trying to get hold of the Bailffs by email and phone and messages go unreturned. Role on today when I get an e-mail notifying me they have been granted a 'sealed writ of control' and have sent notice of enforcement to the company.
I am concerned I am going to be liable for the admin fees from the Bailiffs for acting on my behalf despite me not agreeing to their most recent action.
I'm not sure what my next move should be other than continuing to try and contact the Bailiffs?
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Did you get a high court writ or are the company acting as bailiffs under the county court judgement?
unfortunately there are times when debt collection attempts are just wasting more money0 -
No I had CCJ and the Bailiff company emailed today to tell me that had obtained a High Court Writ on my behalf.Sandtree said:Did you get a high court writ or are the company acting as bailiffs under the county court judgement?
unfortunately there are times when debt collection attempts are just wasting more money
Agreed, I think this is one of those times which is why I was waiting to see if the business reopened. Hence my annoyance with the Bailiff company.0
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