I think their track record of finding against members is rather poor, but I am reviewing this as an option, thank you.

thanks David My point is that debt collection is an essential part of the legal process and it must be done correctly and competently. My view of Burlington is that they are not competent and are driven by their fees. They seem to have no respect for due legal process...I never even received an apology for their negligent actions. At alkl times they have been uncooperative, duplicitous and threatening, and as a licenced body they should have professional standards to display and maintain and not behave as if they have just arrived from the wild west. We have a court system to regulate disputes and it should never be a licence for the sort of thuggery i have seen here. I also want to thank the people who have PM'd me with their own experiences of Burlington. Quite staggering.

I disagree, a pattern of repeated negligence and disregard for the legal niceties would be interesting to see.

indeed. That's why I would like a feel to see if the problems of execution, organisation and competence are oft repeated by Burlington or whether their negligence on this occasion is a one off.

in fact the case is quite simple. The clowns at Burlington issued the writ as advised by their client and failed to read the judgement. So they issued to the wrong person and apparently failed to check the original judgement. This is called negligence as I am advised by my lawyers and in so much as I have suffered the tort of illegal trespass and humiliation in front of staff and customers this has the potential to be a not inexpensive act of negligence. I would be most interested to hear of other errors committed by thsi firm as it seems to me that their internal controls do not support the licence they operate under.

I recently met the gentlemen from Burlington. They were acting on an incorrect writ of control in that Burlington had completed the application for this writ naming me when the underlying tribunal judgement was against a corporate employer ( I was a director and shareholder of the company against whom the judgement was made. They came to me the day before christmas, would not accept that there was an error in their paperwork. ( This error is a burlington theme as the ID of their collector was itself out of date!!) to cut a long story short, I applied to the court who confirmed the error in the paperwork. Burlington wriggled to suggest this error was not their fault. ..they blamed the court ( bad idea) the lower court, their client and even me. They needed a court order before returning my money to me. At all points they showered me with threats and there are major discrepancies between their witness statements and those offered by me based on my attendance at the visit. I intend to go through the regulators as the contempt for the legal process and the poor control and paperwork supplied is clearly actionable and I would be most pleased to hear from others who have had experience of Burlington ( also known as Marstons) as I would not like to present an unrepresentative case to the regulating bodies.