I'm glad you sent that, I am going to send one in the morning, there must be something behind this - glad I did not send one earlier on cause I seem to have been talking round the top of my hat most of the time, think I've got it now though

OK - Now, from what I have read in many posts I am now understanding that they are really specificaly looking or/computer held CAR ONLY parking fines & NOT other CCJ desbts (child maintance-credit debt-whatever) because they cannot simply scan a car number plate & get the name of someone with a CCJ against them for credit card debt or some other debt. I had thought they simply had lists of names & addresses & scanned car number plates to see if any CCJ respondents came up as owners of any particuler car...so now I understand this just a car fine thing, is that correct?

Have you emailed them? I was thinking of doing that but I seem muddled as to what I understood as my next post below might show.

Yes it did seem to mean that, what I understood was that they must have come into a Tesco car park & checked out the cars number & it came back as the owner owed money under a CCJ for something or other, I assumed a debt for anything.

Yes those things are helpfull JB, they seem to conflict with what was being assumed last night which was a "so & so saw this happeing" & passed the info on by just ordinary chat, who also passed it on, that sort of thing but as I said theres no smoke without fire so theres some sort of truth it it somewhere & probably a lot of guesswork as well, what I was surprised about is that Tesco would allow them in I mean theres a lot of people in debt & for Tesco or any others suddenly & without putting notices up becoming a 'honey trap' for baliffs against its customers that just does not make sense. I remeber there was a lot of media controvesy a few years ago (5-10) about DVLA giviing out personal information about drivers (probably meant licence holders) registered with them, dont think it was to do with baliffs or anything like that I seem to remember it was about giving out info to commercial firms involved in selling stuff to motorists, I think, that could be wrong but they were accused of giving out private info.

No what the story is is that they are going into tesco & probably others I suppose & just clamping or putting them on the back of those lorries as well as towing them off

OK Joeblogs that makes things clearer except you seem to specify only parking fines. I though what they meant last night was any general civil CCJ debt warrant of execution, I mean they can take any goods including cars so would't they have anpr vans (are those the tones which tow cars away? I dont know what "anpr" vans are) anyway?

Im more confused now, when I had my default problems I got a letter from a baliff company saying they had a warrant from court, county court, & wanted the money or they could confiscate my goods or chattels, are those debt collectors? I thought because it was a certifiied baliff company the people they sent round were baliffs with a court warrant, am I wrong on that?

Looking at that reply I think I don't understand the baliff thing properly. This is what I though, all these private firms which are hired in by companies who are owed money I thought had trained people & when I CCJ was issued it was given to one of their emplyees who then became a court authorised baliff for the specific cases they dealt with, are they actually emplyed by the courts themselves? Im lost on the fine details really.

Sorry, I must not have written that very well (private baliffs & CCJ's). When I said private baliffs I mean baliffs with a warrant from CIVIL court, I know there are criminal court baliffs who have different powers, so I did mean baliffs with CCJ's, it seems a bit odd that Tesco or others would give permission to baliffs to check & confiscate their customers cars, I mean a lot of people are in debt this past couple of years. I defaulted on a credit card around 15 months ago, they did get a CCJ but I have been paying it off steadily now for over a year, but to go shoping at the time and find baliffs had towed my car from a private shop car park with the shops consent seems to be stretching the law and customer relations a bit to me UNLESS Tesco had notices up stateing the situation, it just sounds like joint entrapment by collusion, wish I had found out more now its been bugging me all day.

I dont have it (link) i was just browsing at the time & moved on i never book marked

Hi, has anybody heard anything to the effect that Tesco is letting bailiffs onto their car parks to confiscate any cars of anyone in default of a cc judgement. I picked this up on facebook (ok, ok not the best but no smoke without fire) as far as I can make out this has recently been happening in London area but no idea if its going on everywhere Tesco. I asked a couple of questions to see if it was other things such as maybe criminal things rather than civil defaulters cars but it seems any defaulter of a civil cc judgement whose car is spotted by bailiffs in a supermarket car park is towed or clamped, I only saw Tesco mentioned but it could be all of them for all I know. Personal thoughts are that IF its true it might also be illegal unless Tesco put notices up the cc bailiffs were active in their car parks as surely that would be entrapment, I know warrants are for 2 things, the defaulters name & their property, they have no warrants to go on other private property such as a private supermarket car par park