Hi, i have a question regarding the baliffs right to enter. I have a 23 year old wayward son, who has accumilated £1400.00 of unpaid fines. It would appear that he has given our home address as his home address. He has never lived at this address, nor did he live at our last address. we recieved letters from marstons to start with, i replied, they replied and asked me to send them my council tax bill to prove he didnt live here. i said NO, my council tax bill is none of your business. A few weeks later a knock on the door, 2 guys from marstons turn up wanting to come in a see my son, he doesnt live here i replied, we need to come in and confirm that they said. I replied FO and they did, never to be heard of again ( so far ) that was about 2 months ago. i have now received paperwork from a company called Collectica, telling me that they will be forcing entry to my property under the DVCV act. Do they have the right to enter if the debtor does not live at the address and who's job is it to prove he doesnt live there.

Hi, I received a letter this morning telling me baliff's were going to come and take my stuff unless I paid £898.54 for keeping a vehicle without a licence in 2009??? I did have a car impounded a longtime ago to which I paid the fine and the impounders bill and got the car back how come I am getting this letter? I don't have the funds to pay it either help please

Dear all firstly thank you for the advice I have taken from this forum prior to registering. I received an Enforcement of Road Traffic Debts Order on my return from honeymoon and have filed using the advice of this forum the PE2 and PE3 forms which the TEC have issued on the Council. I now wait that decision. I did not receive the original PCN's or baliff's first attempts/ visits as I had moved. My PE2 and PE3 forms have on the advice of the TEC been accompanied by proof of moving - I had an intervening address between original and current addresses which is proven. My Car Registration documents were updated 6 months after the infraction. My queries regard the charges levied on me. I requested a breakdown of charges from the baliffs and received this - PCN 1 charges as follows - 7/9 Costs 7.00 7/9 Debt 90.00 10/9 Letter fee 13.44 11/10 Visit/ Levy fee 1 37.20 11/10 Attending to remove 129.00 20/11 Visit/ Levy fee 2 70.80 PCN 2 charges as follows - 7/9 Costs 7.00 7/9 Debt 90.00 10/9 Letter fee 13.44 11/10 Visit/ Levy fee 1 37.20 20/11 Visit/ Levy fee 2 46.80 20/10 Attending to remove 129.00 Is it allowed to 'double charge' on a single visit for two seperate but same day issued PCN's? Given it was clear from visit 1 I had moved, and I have no proof they visited, is a visit/ levy fee 2 allowed? Is the attending to remove fee, issued twice legitimate? Advice regarding the fees above welcomed

Hi all, today i came home and found a hand delivered letter from these bailiffs the letter says it is a second notice, for arrears of council tax from croydon borough. the letter is addressed a person not known at our address as we have lived here for over 30 years. the name i do recognise. it is the name of my ex-landlady, i used to live in one of her flats but gave it up 3 years ago. i have no council arrears as i paid them all up to date and have records to prove this. i find it very odd to have received this letter at my current address and am at a loss to what to do. the bailiff letter says £843.94 is owed and that they should be contacted. i now live with my elderly mother and am very worried about what to do next what should I do?, i know the name of the person but the address is wrong please help? i don't really want to speak to the bailiff but im worried that they may return when i'm not here or if my mother is on her own.

I have recently had a letter through the door from High Court Enforcement Ltd a few points i would like to clarify 1/ I telephoned the person on the letter to explain that there is a vulnerable person at my address ie my partner who is currently on long term sick after a heart attack last year, and asked her to return the warrant back to the client and i would make an arrangement to pay them directly to which she refused and said that i must deal with them directly.??? I asume this is not the case what do i do about this 2/ There are fees of nearly £800 already added to the actual court order and they have only put a letter through the door/ and the actual letter has been delivered by a representative of the actual HCO so can they make any charges as officially can she actualy take any action at all even if i were to let her in? Advice would be gratefully received Many Thanks!!!

Hello All, My 16 year old son was at home babysitting my 5 year old autistic grandson while his mother popped to the Doctors. A man came to the door and asked to speak to his parents and he explained they were at work. The Bailiff said and I quote "Well son, you need to get them on the phone right now as a van full of men are on there way round now to take all your goods" My son very very anxious ( he is a quiet shy boy ) stuttered that he dare not ring us at work he might get in trouble, but the baliff persisted at the door becoming louder each time stating over and over the men in the van were on their way and would take goods whether his parents were there or not. MY son explained that is was 3.50pm and Dad ( my husband ) finished work at 4 and would be here soon and the baliff just said "lets hope he gets back in time" My son came inside, burst into tears which set off my 5 year old grandson having a meltdown and my son and he tried to call us at work. I was in mweeting without my mobile, but husband managed to pick up his phone, finished work straight away and ran home. My husband seeing our son in bits and my grandson having a meltdown was very anxious and angry. He explained to the baliff the story ( see below ) but the baliff would not except ANY payment unless it was the full amount and failure to do so within the next five minutes meant he would clamp our car and that would cost even more. About the debt: Council Tax, 3 weeks worth £125 from last year which we did not realise we had missed until 14 days ago when the council tax people sent a letter saying they had passed to a baliff. We rang the council and they gave us the baliffs number. We rang the number but without a case number they could do nothing and the lady at the council said we would here about it in the post from the baliffs first. 14 days later, not letter from Baliffs but this visit that happened today. My husband today explained to the baliff that his wife ( me ) handled the bank accounts and he was trying to ring me to ask which bank to take it from, but of course I was in a meeting. IN the end, because the baliff was trying to clamp the car my husband rang our office and got someone to disturb me in the meeting. I Spoke to the baliff on the phone and trust me he was not listening when I explained we had received no letter. He said that everyone says that, and this infuriated me. I did not know at this stage how he had spoken to my son. I gave my husband the instructions on the account we had money in. Payday not until 28th we had only 340 left and the baliff took £330. I agree, I should have maybe tried to contact the baliffs again and again to say not recieved letter yet, but I didnt. I was not aware it could ge this agreesive. I know have my son so upset he wont stop shaking. My daughter has took her son home in complete frenzy and the whole family in shock. Can this happen?

Hounslow Council recently contacted me (May 2012) to say that I owed £525 for council tax owed back in the year 2000. What had happened is that I moved out of a rented flat and moved to an address in the same block as the landlord had decided to sell the property. We promptly registered that we were moving to a new flat with the council and immediately without a pause began paying council tax on the new property. Hounslow acknowledge this and can see the record of this taking place. However, they are claiming that we did not de-register from the previous address and are claiming for a period of 6 months council tax unpaid. In speaking with them they are asking me to show my tenancy agreement from over 10 years ago (which I have zero record of) and I cannot track the landlord from 10+ years ago. I am stuck and the council will not see reason. Apparently they had a summons issued against me and my flatmate back in 2001 for the outstanding bill. We never received any communications that this was going on and Hounslow tell me that it is only now that they have been able to trace me - despite the fact that they had a record of me living at another address in Hounslow until 2003 and also me being on the electoral register since then and having lived at the same address for a property I bought for the past 8 years. Its extremely frustrating as if they had contacted me earlier I would have perhaps had records of things - but since they have taken so long it is now extremely difficult for me to do anything. They have a baliff now pressed into action and I feel very very down about the whole thing. I dont have the £525 spare right now and I really dont feel that I owe it. If anything the landlord of the property has been unscrupulous in not forwarding the mail at the time and also he should have been liable for the council tax. I have requested now that the council provide an original copy of the letter sent to them registering us at the new address and evidence of their attempts to contact me in the past 10 years. But to be honest unless the original form shows that I notified them that I was moving out of a place and moving into another place (and not just the latter) then I do not know what to do. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to fight this? Many thanks

even though i am repaying £95.00 a month a letter was left today saying they are going to remove goods. Now i dont know what to do my council (islington is no help) at work in a blind panic trying to figure out how am i going to raise £395.00!! I did speak to teh baliff he said my repayment plan had been broken and that there was a warrant for the full some... i then went into a long explaination with him telling him i am up to date with my repayment i had sent a copy of the letter saying when my repayments wsre due to start at to date they are up to date... please can some body give me some advise as im getting really peed off with this letters. now. Thankfully the baligff says he has'nt added any charges on to my account.. Thanks.

We owe to date £3891.96 council tax - this debt has gone to bristow and suitor. We had a payment plan set up of £100 per month which we where paying, however due to circumstances we where struggling with this debt due to financial reasons and payments ceased 5 months ago. After hearing nothing we forgot about it, untill we had a knock on the door last last night from the baliffs complete with van to take our things. OH dealt with them and they said they needed to take the items but we had visitors in the home so they said to save embarrassment they would put a levy on the car instead and leave the other things. (big mistake i now know) they wanted £500 there and then or they would ring the tow truck company to take our only car. He gave us 24 hrs. to find the £500. We spoke to council today who wont deal with it and passed us back on. Spoke to bristows and they said they would only stop the baliff and his £500 by agreeing to a weekly payment of £160!! OH agreed as they said its that or the baliff with the tow truck this afternoon unless we could get £500 together today. Impossible. I am 16 weeks pregnant, not having a good time of it as been hospitalized 3 times through sickness and stress, i no longer work as am so ill the OH is self employed and not earning at the moment, we have 2 children one whom is classed as having a disability so we get middle rate care for him, CTC per week and WTC per week - our outs are more than our ins and we are really struggling as it is - the stress is making me feel worse. Please can someone help? Thanks

Hi all, When I set up my account to autopay Congestion Charge out of my bank I asked if I could clear any debt outstanding. They said it was done. The car was registered to my mum. She has just given me baliffs letters for three outstanding charges to her (cos the car was in her name) for around £200 each. I call them. They tell me to call up a number about an 'out of time statutary declaration'. The people on the number I call tell me the reasons I (or in this case my mum) can apply for them and they dont seem applicable. I call Congestion Charging again. They say its cos the charges dont go on the system for 4 to 10 days so they thought I was all paid up and basically tough luck. Also said I and my mum could send a letter but beyond that went too helpful. What is the best thing to do now?

Today I had a knock at the door by someone with a clipboard so being in an area that gets more than its fair share of canvassers, I decided not to open it. From my Window I watched the man walk back to a small car parked opposite my house on the other side of the road. After a few minutes he removed a wheel clamp and bent down to fit it to the front wheel of my car parked outside my house. As soon as I saw this I opened my door and called to ask him what he was doing. He said that 5 letters had been sent to my address about an unpaid parking fine that I acquired somewhere in Dorset (where I live) that I had not paid. He also said he had personally delivered notification that he would attend to remove my car if I did not contact them regarding the issue and that Salisbury county court had authorized an order to seize my vehicle. I realize that denial to acknowledge receipt of any of the letters they said were sent would be a bold lie that would not be believed by anyone but unfortunately for me that is the case. Also my post box is secure and I don’t have anyone living with me that would take my mail! I told the bailiff this but obviously he did not believe me and said if I did not pay the £500 odd quid that he wanted the car would be towed within the hour. I offered to pay a weekly amount to try and buy some time to find out how this has happened but was told he needed it all or the car was going. I am self employed as a computer engineer and need my car to work so knowing he had not secured the clamp, I told him I was going to remove some articles, got in, locked the door, started the engine and pulled away. The clamp got stuck for a second and the bailiff was laughing and telling me I would break the car but then it ‘pinged’ off and I drove the car to another location where it remains. Just to add, he stopped laughing when the clamp came off and there is no damage to my car whatsoever and only a few very small scrape marks on the road. I’m pretty sure this did not damage his clamp either. One of my neighbours said they saw him throw the clamp into the back of his car with some frustration after I had left. When I returned home he had written on the bill / letter he was showing me that he was going to report the car as being stolen. I then wrote a letter to his company after reading advice on the internet about bailiffs not being allowed to take ‘tools of the trade’, which I will post tomorrow. I tried to go to their website to email a copy but their site shows a ‘Page not displayed’ error! I have now just phoned the local police (some hours later) to verify the car as being reported stolen but they say that this is not something they are able to do as it is not their property but apparently they do have a right to seize it if they find it. However the police officer also states that if I were to take it back from them after they had taken it from me it would likely remain a civil matter and they would not be willing to be involved. I am going to contact Dorset council tomorrow to find out what this is about and (I really do hope) why the letters have not been delivered to me or what has happened to them. If anyone has any advice on this or can suggest anything I should do I would appreciate the help.

hi all, this is my first post on this forum, I have looked trhough to see if there is a similar thread, but mine is slightly different I think. Anyway this morning there was a knock at the door, a baliff was standing there saying he wanted to talk to my partner, she was out, but our car which I am using for business at the moment, was parked on the road in front of our drive, this guy had clamped it, which I wasnt too happy about as I am a 24 hr emergency locksmith and my tools and stock were in the boot. I told him to remove the clamp as I need to carry out my work, he refused and said that a tow truck will be coming to take the vehicle away unless my partner or I pay £365 over an unpaid parking ticket. Ok so I didnt know about this ticket as my partner had picked it up a few months ago, however I can understand why she may have forgoton about it as she was going through redundemcy and also both her parents had been taken into hospital, her father was in a bad way and is still in hospital after 6 weeks, so any letters she may have had from the local authority may have gone un-noticed. Also where she was parked, she had parked regulary and used the disabled badges, however the local authority had put in "blue bollards" it turns out these new items were charging points for electric cars and no-one can park there even with a disabled badge, aparently there is a sign there stating no parking but that is on the wall not at eye level and not right by the roadside or by these new charging points, it is on the wall of a building. In the meantime I had a customer call me who had a problem with their lock so I needed to go straight away, he would not remove the clamp until I paid the amount they wanted, even though I produced my business card and offered to show him my tools and stock in the boot. The car is registered in her name, he told me if I can produce a log sheet in my name he would remove the clamp but as the vehicle is in my partners name then she will have to pay it and the clamp stays on! Do I have any recourse with this at all?