thank you for this, i will print this of if i may and send it with other details to all people concerned.

oh my Council are so helpful.. NOT !!!!! I have passed this information to them and the lady who is dealing with it did not believe me at first until I gave her details where I had got this information from. She was suprised that I had this information at hand, the case, so she says has now been passed to their head of investigations. i have now put in a formal complaint to the chief inspector at my local police station with regards to the two officers that attended. watch his space.

****** UPDATE***** Just found out that this bailiff did not have a certificate, it had ran out in January of this year and he has not renewed it, any advice on how I can proceed with this would be most gratefully appriciated

I will keep you all updated

thank you so much, the people here that have given advice to me on this matter really dont know how much they have helped me.. i am so very grateful to you all ita actually a comfort to know that i am not going through this alone

I managed to get his name from the police who attened, I did call Drakes and they had no knowledge of him even visiting this address, I am in the process o writing a very lengthy letter to Drakes pointing out parts of thier code of practice that is on their website. I am going to call the DCA in the morning and will ask how I can go about putting forward an official complaint. many thanks for your time and patience with me and your very helpful advice

Im not too good at explaining things im sorry, ok the warrant was served first at a previous address, one that i lived at over two years ago, my car was registered at that address up untill november last year the parking ticket was issued in september 06' and apparantly I went to court in February 07' i had no knowledge of that as all correspondance went to my old address. the council who issued the fine knew where i lived as i tried to appeal against there decision, now this is even sillier, the parking was for showing an invalid parking ticket on the wrong day, even though I had a valid parking ticket on display.

I dont quite understand what you are saying, the police who attended told me his name and they said they saw the warrant

I was not shown any paperwork and he did not leave any either, I have called Drakes and they have no knowledge that I was even at this address, so I am now unsure how this baliff got this address and why he did not inform Drakes that I was at this address when their code of practice states that he has to inform Drakes before attending an address that is not on the warrant

thank you for this information, he did not show me who he was working for or even his name when he called, I am slowly piecing things together to get a case file against him and his company. I am a determined woman and wont rest until I have seen justice done, its the only thing keeping me sane at the moment

this is all new and scary to me, who is trying to bring in this law, and why

That is such a scary thought, seeing what happened to me this week. what happens when there has been a mistake, as in my case. in my opinion these thugs will be given licence to bully women, old/frail people including the disabled who dont have a chance to defend themselves and if they try will be arrested for assault, or worse still assaulted them selves the law wont bring back punishments like whipping and the likes for people who deserve to be punished in that way because its an infringement on their human rights, but they will allow these bullies to force there way into your home and accost you in the streets. where is the justice in that? one mistake can be made and it could makes someones life a living hell. ive become petrified to even go out my door, ive even taken the batteries out of my doorbell because i dont want it to ring, ive given keys to trusted people who visit my house regularly because im too scared to answer my door, because of what happened to me. The only thing that is keeping me going at the moment is the thought that I may have a chance to sue the company responsible for what happened to me, if this comes into force others may not have that opportunity

yes it was drakes, and i am hoping to take that cause of action to sue as and when I find out how and who I can approach about it, I have spoken to a number of solicitors but each one didnt really want to get involved

Yes I managed to get that from the police, and the lady downstairs is very willing to give a statement, sadly this happened around her two very young children who happened to be my grandchildren

Thank you all so very much for your imput. It took some doing but I finally managed to get what firm of bailiffs my local council use and what a suprise, they are very well known for doing this sort of thing, all I have done for most part of my morning is read up about them they were even feaured in a TV programme where some one went undercover and saw how they worked. the firm even said that they would investigate their employers who break their code of practice, which I have quoted in my letter of complaint to them, but I doubt whether things will change. Powelll; In answer to your question, my council went through the magistrates court scarletpimpernel; I am in the process of writing to my MP, many thanks for the link Harrythehawk; I wish I knew, but then again I have no reason for not being found, I did nothing wrong or tried to hide the fact that I had this fine as I was led to believe from my council that thia was going through an appeal process.

I first want to apologise for not introducing myself in the welcome part of the forum before asking you good people for some advice, although I have been a member here for a while I have never posted, sad to say I am in a bit of a sorry state at the moment. I will tell you as much as I can on the events that happened.. if however I have written something I should not have done then please can some one delete the appropriate sentence etc it is long winded i am afraid but please bare with me. thank you On the 29th of may 07' at approximately 5.30pm a bailiff who said he was acting on behalf of Tendring district council came to my home. I had no prior knowledge that I was going to be visited by a bailiff. He proceeded in telling me that I had an outstanding fine for a parking ticket that was issued out side of my home in meredith road in the October of 06' I told him that he had been mistaken as I had a parking ticket issued in September and that it was being dealt with in way of an appeal, and that I had not heard anything about that particular ticket since October 06' when I had written into TDC asking for it to go to appeals. He told me that it had gone to Court and was now in the hands of the bailiffs. He asked how was I going to pay this fine and when was I going to pay it. After some discussion the bailiff seemed satisfied that there may of been some mistake and he said he would take it up with TDC the following day and that I should also contact them. In passing I told him that I would repeat to them what I had to him that I had no knowledge of this going to court and was not going to pay for something I knew nothing off. With that he pushed open my door and placed his foot inside, I would like to point out here that I am a disabled person, on that particular day I had been very ill and for some days prior to this incident. I was in my dressing gown as I was in bed when this bailiff called, I did tell him that it took a while to answer because I was in bed ill. I suffer with neurological episodes (mini strokes) that has left me weakened down the left side of my arm hand and leg. It was clear to see that I was not well as I was very pale and was leaning on the door for support. I asked him to leave and began pushing on the door to stop him from getting in, he told me by doing that I was assaulting him, I stopped and turned to go into my home and he proceeded to follow me grabbing me by the collar of my dressing gown, I screamed at him to get out. at this stage I was very scared at what this man was going to do I had not seen any paper work at this point and have never seen any paper work with regards to this fine. I managed to get through the bottom door of my flat and tried to stop him from entering he shouted at me again that I was assaulting him in way of stopping him from entering my home and that he was going to call the police, I told him that he had assaulted me and that I wanted him to call them. with that he stopped and my downstairs neighbour had came out to see what all the shouting was about. Im not sure whether he stopped because my neighbour had came out or the fact that I told him he had assaulted me. I returned upstairs where I got dressed and waited for the police to arrive. I was clearly traumatised by what had happened and I had sustained injuries where I later had them treated at clacton hospital. Sad to say the police took the side of the bailiff stating that he had every right to force his way into my home because a warrant had been issued, I was not shown any court warrant. I told the police on more than one occasion that he had assaulted me and that I wanted to press charges but the officer declined to do so stating again that my injuries were caused from me stopping the bailiff from entering my home. The police treated me as if I was in the wrong and would not listen to how things had progressed and that I could be arrested for assaulting the bailiff in way of not letting him in. It was left that the bailiff would contact TDC in the morning to be advised on how this matter was going to proceed. I contacted TDC the following day and they had informed me that all paper work with regards to this matter had gone to a previous address of mine even though I had changed the details of my car, and also had corresponded with them with regards to this parking fine at the address where I am living where I received the fine. I have had several parking fines since I have lived here all addressed to this address where this incident happened. Most have been dismissed as the fines were given for nonsensical reasons for instance my permit had fallen out of my window or that it had been put in the wrong place or that temporary permits were incorrectly filled in. TDC are investigating this matter and the police have now agreed to take a statement from me with regards to what had happened. I am sorry that this has been so lengthy but I needed to get every thing in so that I could some how get some advice to this matter. I didnt know where else to go to get advice, even my CAB office was unsure how I should proceed Thank you once again