Got a judgment best way to proceed?

[justfull]

We have a Judgment in default against our landlord a ltd company, who refused to return our deposits. The 3 directors jointly own the property, we also found out via the land registry that one of the directors also owns a private property jointly with his wife.

Presuming the most effective way forward is to obtain a charging order on a property would it be better to go for the jointly owned one?

Thanks in advance for any advice

[old_andrew2007]

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[GuidoT]

You say you have judgement against a limited company and the three directors own the property, if the property is not in the limited company's name you will not able to place a charging order on the property relating a judgement obtained against the limited company.

The limited company is a separate legal entity in its own right.

In any event, I would go straight to winding up petition to enforce the debt. There is no requirement for a statutory demand for a judgement debt.

However, be prepared for them to apply to set aside the judgement.

[justfull]

Thanks for your advice. Sorry didn't explain myself fully - we claimed against the limited management company (set up by our landlord and 2 other directors solely to collect rent). We also put landlord's name on claim. We were reluctant to proceed further against the ltd company as we thought they would just wind-up the company and set up in another name. So we have a judgement against the ltd company and landlord.

We guessed we would be more successful going for the landlord himself as we knew he part-owned properties.
Realistically we don't hold out much hope to get our deposits back now but would like to make life difficult for those responsible even if it means waiting for their property to be sold years down the line.

So basically would appreciate ideas on which method would have best effect.

Thanks