I like your strength NailPost, im a little scared of the big bad companies. I would like to take your line, but surely its partly my fault for not telling them i left the property, also it appears i may legimately owe them one months rates. So should i say im willing to pay anything before july 2003, anything there after i am willing to go to court?

I contacted Alexender James, and they said that the water account at the address is still in my name now....even tho i moved out in Jul 2003. They said they will call off Mackenzie Hall and have given me 14 days to prove the date that i move out of the property. Only one problem! i dont think i have anyway of proving it, i dont have my tennancy agreement, i dont have any old bills, and i cant reach the Landlord. what do i do?

Do need i bother contacting Alexander James, the solicitor who is acting for Northumbria, and has probably contracted MH? In the hope that they can tell me what period i have elgidly not paid the bills for? I know it cant be me either way, because i and my flatmates paid the water bills regularey while i was there, and £400 would equate to 2 years of unpaid bills which certainly cannot be the case.

The letter is titled in red "Notice of Court Action" and it say in the first paragraph, "documents have now been prepared to enable the Issue of a Claim against you in your Local Court"....and when i rang MH they said they would give me 7 days to prove that iv paid the bills or they will begin action. No court is expicitly mensioned and the letter is signed, but only using a different computer type face.

Write a letter to who? mackenzie hall, Norumbria water, the solicitors? What sort of responce will i get? are you implying something?

Hello I woke this morning with a nice red letter of court action from Mackenzie Hall, for a sum of £400 that is supposedly over due on my account with Northumbrian Water, and the letter says that I must pay by the 22nd of the September to avoid the action, it’s the 23rd today! This is also the first I have ever heard of any problems, I haven’t received any prior warnings, no red bills, nothing. I rang up Northumbrian water and they couldn’t tell me any thing, so I contacted the people who sent me the court action and they treated me like some sort criminal and basically weren’t interested in anything I had to say, all they could tell me was the address the charge was concerning, but not the period that I edgily have not paid the bills for. The address they mentioned was somewhere I have not lived for 3 years though. I then took this info back to Northumbrian water and they still couldn’t tell me anything, they said the account was locked and they referred me to a third party which is the solicitors handling the case, which aren’t open till 9 on Monday. I am almost certain that all the bills where paid up, my fear is the next tenants did not bother to put the water in their name and did not bother to pay the bills. Am I still liable? I am also worried about how I will prove I wasn’t living there, like all students I’ve had many addresses since then and I didn’t keep my tenancy agreements etc. What do I do?