Thanks again everyone. Fingers crossed. What will complaining about the Bailiff ultimately achieve? Will the council then have to take the debt back? They say they won't because they are sitting on files that go back to 2002 and as long as I keep the arrangement with the Bailiff there won't be any problem. I'm puzzled by them thinking I've not paid anything since 2002 though as before I got my current job which I've had for 2 and a half years, I was unemployed with only the very odd little bit of work here and there and was mainly in receipt of housing benefit and council tax benefit. There have however been times when I was neither working or claiming housing/council tax benefit. Do you think they have possibly just assumed that when I wasn't claiming the benefit, I must've been working? Thanks again People, I don't know what I'd do without you.

Rang the Court today and they confirmed that this was probably an unlawful signing of the Walking Possession Order and advised me to inform the council of this. Before I phoned the council, I phoned Rundle and Co Bailiff's who were more than happy to nullify said order. My next move was then to phone the council to try and get them to take back the debt on the basis that I'm very fearful of dealing with people who are prepared to break the law to get results. I really thought that they would be more understanding when I gave them the facts. Instead though they treated me as if I was trying to pull some sort of [problem] on them and insisted in making their own enquiries to the one of the Director's of Rundle and Co AND the Bailiff in question. When I called them back and they said that they'd been advised that my info was incorrect, got all uppity and even said that the Bailiff would be happy to speak to anyone from the CAB as he reckons he acted lawfully. As do the idiots at the council. I phoned the court back and told them what the council said and thay have asked me to write to them outlining the details. I'm well confused now.

Thank you so much. I thought it was iffy at the time. I think if I let the council know this information, it may be enough to get them to take this case off the bailiff.

Hi. I'm new and very scared that I may have been tricked into signing a walking possession order by a Rundle and Co bailiff in respect of an old Council Tax debt. The initial notice I got from the Bailiff saying he'd come to remove goods was delivered by the postman and not by him as he'd said in that notice. I immediately freaked out and rung the Bailiff immediately but all I got was his answering machine so left a message. He responded by saying that he was not interested in any instalment plans which left even more freaked out. I then rung the local council explaining that the Bailiff was uncooperative and they managed to intervene thankfully and I managed to agree to £150 per week which I can ill afford. Next stage was for the Bailiff to come round and get me to sign something to take ownership of the debt. I refused to meet him at my house and instead met him in the car park of a nearby Pub. It was there whilst he was being all friendly that he got me to sign this Walking Possession order. Is this above board? Please help !!!