TV Licence article Discussion

Paul_Varjak

If an officer does come to my door I will have my recording equipment ready and will give them a copy of the TVL visiting procedures and a copy of the letter from TVL indicating that I want no visit to my property.

Cornucopia

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

If an officer does come to my door I will have my recording equipment ready and will give them a copy of the TVL visiting procedures and a copy of the letter from TVL indicating that I want no visit to my property.

Good plan... or just ignore them, if you wish.

Paul_Varjak

Cornucopia wrote: »

Good plan... or just ignore them, if you wish.

If I ignore them I then really have little grounds to pursue an injunction under the Proection from Harassment Act to stop them visiting.

But if they ignore my original letter and a videoed visit where I hand over said documents there can be no argument that they are aware of my wishes.

[Deleted User]

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

Then I got a letter (addressed to me) acknowledging my request that no licensing officers approach my property

WOIRA is not generally a good idea.

It marks you out as a hard-core resister, and moves you toward the top of their "*hit list"

* You can insert another letter here, if you wish.

Oh and FYI. They're not "licensing officers".

They're commission salesmen.

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..... when I see cases like THIS, it makes me all the more determined, never to pay another penny to such an odious organisation. :mad:

adouglasmhor

Got a load of letters from them in the post at work, addressed to PO Boxes used for election postal votes.
They have been contacted before and informed of this.
This is a Ballot Box.

and here is where the letters went.

anotherbaldrick

When Licensing made a right nuisance of themselves last year and would not take any notice of my telephone calls and letters telling them I did in fact have an OF's license I sent copies off to the Right Honourable Theresa May stating just what I thought of Capita. It did the trick, I very soon received an apology from Capita and a promise I would not get any more detritous.

Cornucopia

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

If I ignore them I then really have little grounds to pursue an injunction under the Proection from Harassment Act to stop them visiting.

But if they ignore my original letter and a videoed visit where I hand over said documents there can be no argument that they are aware of my wishes.

Have you looked into this? I would be interested to know the process.

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What's an "OF's license" :huh:

Paul_Varjak

Cornucopia wrote: »

Have you looked into this? I would be interested to know the process.

Persons can be sued (in civil law) or prosecuted (criminal law) for harassment. There has been some debate over whether a company (which is a 'legal person') can be sued/prosecuted under the Protection from Harassment Act.

In Ferguson v British Gas (2009) Ms Ferguson sued British Gas for harassment. Ms. Ferguson was not a customer of British Gas but British Gas kept sending her threatening letters demanding payment.

British Gas tried to stop the case coming to Court, but when the Court of Appeal finally granted Ms Ferguson that right, British Gas backed down and, apparently, paid her £35,000 costs and compensation.

So, whether a company could be sued under the Protection from Harassment Act was not fully tested in this case. No doubt there have been similar cases and I think debt collection agencies have been successfully sued/prosecuted for harassment.