Enforcing a judgement

annieb1981

As the title says, has anyone had experience of enforcing a high court judgement? We have recently won a high court judgement but the man it was against hasn’t followed through with any payment or plan to pay. As a result we now have to take further action and move to enforcing the judgement which is more money for us but we have come this far we feel we need to keep going. All the paperwork has been submitted and we wait to hear. I would just like to know if anyone else who has experienced this. Anything I have come across is the English system which seems a bit different to here. This man we very dishonest and we have got in to a lot of debt as a result. He owes us quite a lot of money and legal costs as well. I am so nervous that he will manage to get away with not giving us a penny. Any advice greatly appreciated. 

qwert_yuiop

Did he use a solicitor? Contact them. 

annieb1981

No he represented himself. Our solicitor has wrote to him notifying him of the next step and that the judgement is going to enforcement so the ball now in his court to respond or the enforcement officers will have legal right to do a few things to get the money from him.

qwert_yuiop

Has he any money?  Could be tricky if he hasn’t actually got anything.

annieb1981

qwert_yuiop said:

Has he any money?  Could be tricky if he hasn’t actually got anything.

He says he hasn’t but owns his own home with wife which wasn't far from being mortgage free when we done business with him 5 years ago with substantial amount of land (background check flagged this so we know this to be the case). Would just love to know what other people experiences from something similar. It’s has been such a long road and I’m the suspense of it all is almost too much at the moment.

qwert_yuiop

Well, if he has assets they should be accessible to the courts.

I had to take a lying fraudster to small claims recently. The eejit turned up with a solicitor to repeat his lies for him, the whole point of small claims being that you don’t need a solicitor. It made it easy to get the money , though - the solicitor clearly had more luck squeezing money out of the blaggard than I had, and I got the cheque from the solicitor.
I hope he’s reading this - original bill,  costs of court and useless wee solicitor. Enough to ruin his day.