ok finding out if a car is on finance is easy all we have to do is hpi it takes five mins and can be done by text from a mobile phone!!! We can clamp it but legallyif the car is on h.p. you do not legally own it the hp compay does!! and as far as i am aware legally they have to remove the clamp at the hp companys request We can seize the car but are not allowed to sell it as its not yours As for the clamp its self if you are on private land they MUST have an S.I.A. licence to allow them to do this(many companys get round this by not charging a fee) so if you are charged a fee ask to see the licence if they dont have 1 call the police as they have no legal right to do so(some do this and hope you simply dont know) The fees added to a case are set by the government and local council if you believe that they are unlawfull charges call the office of fair trading and they will investigate it! As for writing to the council to argue Once a warrant of execution has been issued the councils are not able to interviene until the case is sent back by the bailiff! When a case is sent back by a bailiff then you could recieve what is called an attachment of earnings These are NOT nice. What this means is that whatever you earn a certain ammout will be deducted form your wages REGARDLESS of anything rent bills e.t.c. no of kids, loans it does not matter an amount is taken The various tiers and percentage escape me but i am pretty sure that if you earn £1200 benefits included (woking child tax credit e.t.c.) you will loose £300 a month from this no matter what unil the debt is payed!!! Also on the comment about the direct payments to the council it does not matter When a bailiff has a warrant of execution you could have paved half the debt to the council the bailiff is there to collect half the debt! Cars paked on private land are no different to cars parked on the road i can clamp a car on private land (again s.i.a. licence) As for the van call notice about removing goods they cannot break in if they have not entered before! hope this helps a bit

Hi all I am a nice person lol and i believe the carrot is FAR better than the stick (pardin the expression)Obviously i am not going to tell you who i work for but we are not as nasty as some!! When i do a call i will try my upmost to help the people out of the situation as i have been in debt and its not nice. The last thing i want to do is take people's belongings away from them. There is no need to go in all guns blazig and take all the stuff i will try to levy or write an unsecured arrangement all the time and am allways contactable if they reach difficulty! I know some bailiff firms (no names) who will set arrangments the people cant keep so as they breach the baillif has to come out again and earns more fee's! What i meant about the parking tickets is if you get 1 you have about 6 weeks on average to argue the case with the council (or the ncpo w*****s) before it gets sent out to a bailiff! the easiest thing to do is pay the 30 quid THEN argue the case as the bailiffs dont even get to see it, I was in no waY intending to advise people to pay up as not to icur our wrath it was simply to try and save people a lot af hasstle in the long run and i apologise if it came accross this way!! As far as i am aware if the goods are in your house and you cannot prove that you dont own them then they are considered to be yours and are legaly able to be levied (again i will check this out) As for the assult question a bailiff (or any other peson for that matter) does not even need to touch you to assault you if you are put under fear of assault this is TECHNICALLY enough! Your friend could cry assault but i doubt it would stand up as there would be no other witnesses to it and truth could be proved neither way! Plus most bailiffs earn a half decent living andd would not jepordise loosing their ticket and judges are aware of this!!! @sylectric i didnt see it as a personal attack

ok i am a bailiff (no need for the comments) Right as for the charges we dont make those up they are put in place by the government! As a bailiff acting on a court warrant i CAN enter your house through an open door or window even if i HAVE NOT been there before! (however we dont do this as it is an aggression catalyst) imagine walking in your house and there being someone in there i know what id do Once i have been there and levied your goods i can return and break in to retrieve them if you have not payed as promised All i have to do to gain peacefull entry to your house is put my foot over your threshold (when we ask for i.d. or letters whatever and you say "ill go to get them" SHUT THE DOOR) When a levy is written most bailiffs will list the goods and then write "plus sufficiant goods to cover the debt" This is NOT legally binding!!!! As for the poster who said about signing the goods over to someone else.. unless that person can provide a reciept for that item then i can remove it We are not all bad people i have been in lots of debt and i also have 2 kids which i have to feed. my advice is this if you get a parking ticket or whatever pay it straight away people seem to forget that it takes months before i even see it!!! If you need anything clarifying (letters from companys e.t.c.) let me know Oh and i dont work for drakes or equita we are much nicer than those!!

I think he means he wants to claim the money he paid in premiums to his credit card company back from them????