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Re: warrents for removal of standard meter and to put in a pre payment meter.
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Originally Posted by The GodMother
The thing is they are telling us the warrent cant be appealed if they win. now i allways thought it could be what is rite?
I'm really not sure about this, I came across RoE warrants practically daily and have never actually come across this situation, so I don't know for sure.
Hopefully you can stop it before the warrant is issued, the whole process is very simple and it's not normally like a trial in any way.
Basically, if you were a fly on the wall in your local Magistrates Court on the day the warrant was being applied for, you would see the rep from your utility company - and probably the reps from the others, all sat around with piles of paper. These are the warrant applications. At some point the clerk would take the paperwork and get it stamped, then return it to the relevant rep. That's it...warrant issued.
If you turned up at the magistrates court and spoke to the rep, 9 times out of 10 they would withdraw the warrant application. This is because if a customer attends they are then allowed to put the case against the issue to the Magistrate - so it becomes more than just a rubber stamp exercise.
Now in my experience (and ok, this won't go for all of them) Magistrates will side with the little guy over the big evil utility company and not issue the warrant.
There are of course exceptions, and I have sent reps to court with plenty of evidence where we have been dealing with a "won't pay" customer, and the magistrate has issued, but in the main unless instructed otherwise, the rep would withdraw the application.
So, sorry I couldn't answer your actual question, but I hope this info may be of use to you.
Re: warrents for removal of standard meter and to put in a pre payment meter.
well what it is i have had this throw outta courts twice.
in feb the courts said they had to do i list of things b4 they brought it back to court.
they called me to courts again without doing the list of things told the guy and he refused to present the order got a call last night saying they are talking it back to court without the courts previous orders being done.
There were ordered to.
1 talk to me to try and settle the dispute.
2 send me ALL my statements since the acc was opened. never recieved one from them in 5 years.
3 NOT take this back to courtfor a warrent to remove metr but when we have talked about it and agrred what action should be taken they can take it to small claims if that is what was agreed.
Now i am disputing the amout owed due to me having had 3 faulty metres which they have removed. and they are trying to charge me for all the electric used since 23rd June 2003.
warrents for removal of standard meter and to put in a pre payment meter.
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Originally Posted by The GodMother
