Moorcroft has just send me a letter today threatening with legal action regardless of the fact that I told them there is not such debt and regardless of the fact that I spoke with Thames Water and they told me that my account is in good order. Any advise? Would the prove it letter be usefull in this case or is there another document i could send to them? Thanks

True but the comments seem to be a bit contradicting as well. Just thought it might be interesting subject for discussion in this forum, was discussing it with some colleages at work this morning (I actually work for a local authority) and a couple of colleages said it was true. Personally I don't know much about local taxation.

I am not really requesting advise for council tax as I am doing OK at the moment but me and my flatmate came across this last night and I was really shocked. Does anyone know anything more about this? And If this was true wouldn't everyone then refuse to pay their council tax? Strange English Freemen Standing In Court - Council Tax Hearing - The Takedown Begins! on Vimeo

Thank you for your help, I will send them the letter just to be covered.

My flatmate and I are being constantly harrassed by this company regarding a water bill from Thames Water. We already pay Thames Water with a standing order. When i spoke with Thames Water to query the letters etc, the lady on the phone advised me that If we were to move from standing order to DD then this feeds back to them automatically and will stop them from contacting us again. I wasn't willing to do this because to move from standing order to DD they wanted to move us to an estimated bill. We now pay actuals and the monthly estimate was 4 times more than what we pay now for actual use (I now get a quarterly bill and I split the bill into three and pay them via standing order). She said to be that they were happy with the condition of our account, everything was up tp date and had no further demads and advised me to call Moorcroft and inform them. When I did that the minute I said to them that I pay Thames Water directly he became so rude and so agreesive that I had to hang up the phone. He kept threatening me that they have instructions to collect the debt and they will no matter what it takes and that it was my responsibility to prove that I paid the debt. Wouldn't Thames Water be responsible to inform a debt collection office to stop collection and that they received the money? And can they really take me to court for a paid debt as he was threatening? Any advise would be really really appreciated. Thanks

It's middle May but we have a black bin bag full of mail for them I do not think that the landlord knows anything yet.

We have 4 months left on the contract.

A week ago we received a letter from Lloyds bank addressed to the current occupier so we opened it and it was to informed us that the property we are currently renting is being repossessed. The letter suggested that we seek legal advise on what will happen if the bank takes possession of the property. The contract states that our deposit is covered by Tenancy Deposit Solutions Ltd so I called them today to ask what will happen to my deposit if the bank takes possession of the property. They said that the property in query was not protected by them. They asked me If I have a certificated which I don't. I also know that the landlord was living here before renting the property to us so I do not know whether he has a buy to let mortgage or not, I also know that both he and his wife are in huge financial difficulties as all their mail is coming to us. We get visited by at least 3 different debt collection agencies every day who are looking for them, there were bailiffs who came to repossessed their car recently as well and the story goes on. So it is highly unlikely we will ever get our deposit back as I don't see him having the money to pay us back. There are quite a few issues here so If anyone can advise on any of them I would really appreciate it. Thanks

We are about to rent a new flat and the agency is asking for current landlord and previous landlord details and they state they might approach them for referencing. We have excellent relationship with our current landlord in fact he doesn't want us to move (rent paid always on time etc) but we have to move due to downsizing. We have a CCJ agaist our pervious landlord and the agency who managed the property for not returning our deposit. We do not think that they will give us references provided that we just got the CCJ against them (the case took more than a year). Not sure what to do as we don't want to scare the new landlord either by mentioning the CCJ. But at the same time we don't believe that these people should be giving us references as they will be biased. Anyone got any suggestions would be really appreciated. Thanks

Anyone able to help with this would be much appreciated. We are taking our ex-landlord to court for withholding part of our deposit. The judge called us for a preliminary hearng and gave both of us directions. The judge instructed the landlord that in 21 days he should file to court and sent a copy to us a schedule of all damages he claims and supporting documentation (quotes or invoices). Not sure if this is a standard sort of direction for these cases but we have complained to the court on our claim that he hasn't given us proper evidence of what he was deducting (No quotes, no breakdown of where the costs came from, nothing basically). Its been one and a half months and we still haven't received anything from the landlord. We sent a letter to the court just saying we haven't received anything and we want to refer this back to the court but haven't heart anything from the court either. Does anyone know anything more on this? How flexible are the judges with directions? We had directions as well and we followed them (even though we were on holidays and out of the country). The case is not due yet (due to court being very busy) but the judge also gave directions regarding the case. That 14 days before the hearing we need to sent evidences, statements etc. The first direction was seperate from the directions we need to follow before the court day. I hope this makes sence. Thanks

Thank you for your help. I have just been looking at the registry trust website and it says that you go to court pay £15 and get a certificate of cancelation issued. I will contact my court to get more info.

A judgement was entered against me on the 18th of April 2006. I have paid the full amount on the 25th of April 2006. My credit report from all agencies still have the judgement on my credit report as unsatisfied. I want to apply to set aside the judgement on the basis that I have paid it within 1 month but i read somewhere that you can only apply to set a judgement aside if you defended the claim. Does anyone know whether I can apply to set it aside? Also I paid the money to my local court and I have all the relevant paperwork from court that says I paid the judgement with dates and everything. Do I need to involve the claimant and would a hearing be necessary? It sounds very straightforward to me but then i know nothing about these issues. Any help would really be appreciated. Thanks