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I had a CCJ made last year requesting payment forthwith. I applied for the variation of the order to pay by instalments. The court allowed this but the creditor objected and even though my payments are up to date, I have a hearing on Friday re: the instalments. Can someone help me, what actually happens at the hearing?

 

Does the judge go through my income and expenditure to decide whether the instalments are reasonable?

 

The creditor has also applied for a charging order, the hearing for that is next month. If the judge decides at the hearing on Friday that my payments are reasonable will the charging order hearing still take place next month or can he cancel it?

 

P.S. I do not know why they are objecting, presumably they want me to pay more. Should I be told beforehand what the grounds are for them objecting, after all I have to defend why my current monthly payments are reasonable.

 

I had a charging order granted despite having an instalment order in place that I have been paying. It is not in default.

 

Can I appeal against the charging order arguing the following:

 

Section 86(1) The County Courts Act 1984:

 

Where the court has made an order for payment of any sum of money by instalments, execution on the order shall not be issued until after default in payment of some instalment according to the order.

 

This was further considered in the case of Mercantile Credit V Ellis in The Court of Appeal 1987. It was found that the wording of the Charging Orders Act states quite clearly that no further action could be taken without a default in payment. It should be noted, however, that in the case of Ropaigealach V Allied Irish Bank CA Nov 2001 where an instalment order is made AFTER an interim charging order has been made, a court has the jurisdiction to make a Charging Order final.

 

(I included Mercantile in my objection but not the County Courts Act)

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Haven't looked into your case in detail but it depends...

 

In Ropaigealach v Allied Irish Bank [2001], the judge there considered the Mercantile Credit case and came to the conclusions that:

 

"There was jurisdiction to make a charging order absolute if a charging order nisi had been obtained before the instalment order had been made. It was also clear that in cases such as the instant case, where under the instalments order the debt would not be paid for many years, and where there was more reason to secure payment, there was nothing wrong in principle with the co-existence of the orders as s 1(1) of the Charging Orders Act 1979 set out. Further, when exercising its discretion under s 1(5) of the 1979 Act, the court could take all relevant circumstances, including the existence of the instalment order, into consideration. In the instant case there was no ground on which the court could interfere with the exercise of the court's discretion."

 

Charging Order Nisi = Interim Charging Order

 

Did you get the interim charging order BEFORE the court mandated an instalment order or afterwards?

 

That will determine the likelihood of your success.

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From what you have stated, you do have grounds to appeal.

 

According to case law, the interim charging order should never have been granted in the first place with an installment order made which was not in default.

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1. On the application of the defendant and the court having consideed the papers received from the parties. It is now ordered that the def pay the claimant the outstanding sum by instalments of £xx for every month the first payment to reach the claimant by xxx.

2. Two payments before the final charging order hearing.

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From what you have stated, you do have grounds to appeal.

 

According to case law, the interim charging order should never have been granted in the first place with an installment order made which was not in default.

 

 

That is what I thought too. He kept saying having the charging order wont cause me hardship. Looking back I should have said it will because of the charges of the hearing and costs that will be added to the judgment debt.

 

My understanding is that if they had applied to the High Court then a charging order can be made even when you are not in default. In the County Court though this isnt possible. Should I reduce the debt to under £5k (threshold for the High Court) to make sure that they dont apply for one at the High Court since I am appealing?

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Let's rewind a second... In the hearing for a charging order nisi... was the judge aware of the fact that an installment order was made? Out of curiosity, was it a district judge or circuit judge?

 

Ps... 2 payments before the final charging order or the charging order nisi?

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Ps... 2 payments before the final charging order or the charging order nisi?

 

Not sure what you mean. final charging order hearing = charging order nisi?

 

By the time the charging order was made absolute I had paid to payments under the instalment order.

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Old terminology -

 

Charging order nisi = interim charging order

Charging order absolute = final charging order

 

Hmmmm.... not convinced that a district judge would err on such a point so there might be some pertinent piece of information missing here. Stranger things have happened.

 

To all intents and purposes, appeal but also mention the fact that there is negative equity (if there is), etc. You can see other charging order threads for other points to appeal on.

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With all due respect I stand to benefit nothing by twisting the truth. What I have said is exactly what happened. That is why I am asking for help because what happened defies logic to me.

 

As for the negative equity position I argued it and he says is does affect me in any way. It is a risk that the creditor takes, if they fail to recover any money after the sale of the house its their problem.

 

Thanks for your responses though.

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That wasn't a slight and I apologise if it was misconstrued as that. To be honest, an appeal is required and you should get more margin with a circuit judge but at least then he/she can clarify your position based on the evidence infront of him/her. I don't have the luxury of seeing the evidence that the opposing counsel has presented which is why I queried whether there was something else missing.

 

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

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This same thing has happened to me. Found this information though. Is this right? I find it very worrying.

 

 

Slapper & Kelly THE ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM, Tenth edition p368

 

"Charging Orders.... Under the old law, the court could not make a charging order when payments due under an installment order made to secure the same sum were not in arrears. ... The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 removes this restriction and enables access to charging orders in circumstances where a debtor is not yet in arrears with an installment order."

It then goes on to say "As a safeguard, the Act allows the Lord Chancellor to set financial thresholds beneath which a court cannot make a charging order or order for sale, in order to ensure that charging orders are not used to secure payment of disproportionately small judgement debts."

 

In my experience, the thresholds that have been set are so low that they are easily exceeded by adding court costs even if the original debt is only a few pounds - some protection that is for the householder! Not only that, but the judges I have encountered seem to feel that this threshold makes the precedent of Robinson v Bailey redundant.

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Hi mersault22,

 

Sorry to hear that the same thing happened to you.

 

Yep. That is also my interpretation of s93 of the 2007 Act. Decided not to appeal after all because even if I was sucessful, the Claimant could always apply for a charging order in the High Court and the fact that the instalment order was not in default wouldnt matter. This would mean more costs for me and the heartache of going to court again.

 

Figured I might as well hang onto my £160 : )

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The thing now is to try your hardest to protect yourself from an order of sale. If you're in negative equity they shouldn't even start the process but I've been through two of them now (from the same company) and they can get very expensive. I think the general idea is for them to make an obscene profit from the court costs.

My advice is, if it happens, don't rely on a solicitor, get help here to prepare your defence, etc... and submit it by Special Delivery well within the 14 days of the date on the notification of hearing.

Also get some advice here about sending some Terms and Conditions to show that you will also be going for costs if they don't behave reasonably. Wish I had learned about that sooner.

Because of the mass deregulation and privatization that has happened in recent years, large companies all seem to be in a bun fight for the available money and play dirtier and dirtier.

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It's not that clear cut unfortunately...

 

The court must consider:

 

1.) personal circumstances ot the debtor; and/or

2.) whether any other creditor will be prejudiced by the fact that this creditor has the CO; and/or

3.) whether it would infringe the debtors human rights and if doing so, whether ratifying the CO is necessary to protect the creditor.

 

These are some of the principles to follow and if these can be argued successfully, then there is no reason not to appeal a CO. Alas, I do understand there is a lot of stress and money involved so you have to do what you feel is right for you at the time. :)

 

To answer your question, meursault22, yes they can:

 

Charging Orders Act 1979 (amended)

 

s 1 ...

 

[(6) Subsections (7) and ( 8 ) apply where, under a judgment or order of the High Court or a county court, a debtor is required to pay a sum of money by instalments.

 

(7) The fact that there has been no default in payment of the instalments does not prevent a charging order from being made in respect of that sum.

 

( 8 ) But if there has been no default, the court must take that into account when considering the circumstances of the case under subsection.]

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Looks like I'm wrong. This is what sequenci of the site team has to say on the subject.

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by meursault22 viewpost.gif

The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 removes this restriction and enables access to charging orders in circumstances where a debtor is not yet in arrears with an installment order."

 

This didn't become law, it was removed from the act in the end :-)

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It's not that clear cut unfortunately...

 

The court must consider:

 

1.) personal circumstances ot the debtor; and/or

2.) whether any other creditor will be prejudiced by the fact that this creditor has the CO; and/or

3.) whether it would infringe the debtors human rights and if doing so, whether ratifying the CO is necessary to protect the creditor.

 

These are some of the principles to follow and if these can be argued successfully, then there is no reason not to appeal a CO. Alas, I do understand there is a lot of stress and money involved so you have to do what you feel is right for you at the time. :)

 

Hi rhodium78,

 

I am disillusioned. I argued that there is negative equity in the house and that i have been paying my instalments each month. The judge was aware of my personal circumstances and point 2 and 3 above dont apply. If my arguments didnt work at the final charging order hearing, seems to me they wont work when appealing. No additional grounds to argue against the CO have arisen since the previous decision. It is too much of a risk to argue the same stuff again when I wasnt successful the first time. The court can if it chooses make a CO final when instalments are up to date. Statute makes that clear. I gave it my best shot and it would be financially astute to accept the decision. Que sera sera.

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According to my reference Lexis, it is in force and is active...

 

Would like to know where the relevant site team member got his information as that is at odds with what the law database states.

 

It is mentioned in the amended 1979 act and in the statute for Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 as live.

 

EDIT: TOOK OUT THE ACT TEXT BELOW AND ATTACHED IT AS A PDF

Charging_Orders_Act_1979_(1979_c_53).PDF

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Looks like I'm wrong. This is what sequenci of the site team has to say on the subject.

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by meursault22 viewpost.gif

The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 removes this restriction and enables access to charging orders in circumstances where a debtor is not yet in arrears with an installment order."

 

This didn't become law, it was removed from the act in the end :-)

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Still though they could apply in the High Court where you dont have to be in default to have the CO made final.

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inabind, I don't want to influence your decision, but I appealed and for the record, the judge wasn't interested in anything I had to say but granted the creditor a large amount in extra costs for attending the appeal hearing.

 

Rhodium78, for what it's worth, I just asked a law student friend to check who was in agreement with you on this.

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Can you ask the site team member to confirm that please if you don't mind... maybe hit the triangle for site team assistance as I am not convinced it got repealed and all the info and commentary on this act states otherwise.

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Hi there. I hope someone will be able to clarify something for me. The situation is like this. I have a CCJ for approx £5200 and I am paying £50 per month on it. The creditor is entitled to interest and also has a charging order on my property.

 

With the interest it will take me around 13 years to pay the debt off. Is this correct?

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