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Please could anyone help? my car was clamped today, because of an unpaid Kensington & Chelsea parking ticket I never received. This is the first I've ever heard about it (apparently the ticket was issued in June - I've moved house since then). I called the number and spoke to the bailiff at 9.15pm. He said that the fee was £600 and unless I pay by 10am tomorrow morning he will tow the car away. That leaves me only one hour tomorrow to ring up his company (TASK, in Croydon) or the council, since their phone lines only open at 9am. The bailiff refused to itemise the charges. I rang off and having read up a bit on the web, at 9.30pm I tried to call the bailiff back but he has switched his telephone off. Is this legal? £600 for one parking ticket seems excessive? But I don't want him to tow the car at 10am tomorrow. He only told me he was going to do so right at the end of the call, when I said I was going to contest his charges - until then he was obviously hoping to get away with towing it at 10am and charging still more. Any advice would be very welcome.

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Go to the northampton county court website and download statutory declaration forms, print them off and fill them in. Take them to local county court and get them stamped, fax them to northampton county court and it will stop bailiff action.

Be quick though, bailiff will try and lift car. Phone bailiff when you have faxed form through, they should stop action.

All I ask is to be treated fairly and lawfully.

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Many thanks for the advice. The trouble is, the counter at the local county court only opens at 10am, by which time he'll have towed the car... Perhaps I should sit in the car to stop him (am 8 months pregnant so that should give him pause for thought!). Perhaps the only thing to do is to pay now and contest later - do you know if it's any harder to reclaim charges once you've paid them, than it is to avoid paying them in the first place, if you see what I mean? If not, is it possible for me to pay now and then file a Form 4 complaint? Does £600 seem excessive or is it just me who thinks that! Thanks again for your help.

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Could you PM me the name of the bailiff as soon as possible. I will search to see if he is certificated or not.

 

The amount is high but just this afternoon we have had 2 cars released from the pounds.

 

One bailiff company wanted £1017 (fortunatly the bailiff was unceritifcated) so released without a fee and the other was for £977. Released as we found that the warrant was being enforced too soon.

 

MUCH more difficult to get fees back once you have paid.

 

Also, if you file declarations at the TEC tomorrow, then a decision will not be made until approx: 5th January 2008 so you could not make a claim for a refund until AFTER that time.

 

Form 4 Complaint is not really warranted.

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I'm sorry , but a Statutory Declaration is wrong.

 

She must instead file an Out of Time late Statutory declaration.

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I would strongly advise against PMing private email addresses or other information to people. Perhaps tomtubby could simply post the letter and advice on this thread so that the information can be made available to others in similar situations.

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Hi,

 

If you are 8 months pregnant and the car is yours then you would without doubt come under what is known as a vulnerable debtor and the stress not needed. If he arrives, I would show him a form 4 complaint and state that at 8 months pregnant for the harassment you will file as you are vunerable and only a few weeks from giving birth.

 

If you read the thread on the link below and fill out the forms first thing, and go straight to the court, then even if it is towed it will be released. If it isn't, the last thing they want is bad publicity! If you need help post back in the morning.

 

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/bailiffs/122383-balliff-clamped-my-car.html

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We’ve now filed an out-of-time statutory declaration and, touch wood, everything has been sorted. I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who responded with advice. Isn’t the internet brilliant and aren’t websites like this one fantastic! Tomtubby, in particular, you’ve been a complete star. I can’t thank you enough for going out of your way to help us - it’s incredibly kind of you and very much appreciated.

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I'm really pleased for you Violet. Tomtubby is very knowledgeable in this area I'm told so I'm glad she helped you.

 

Good luck with the baby by the way. :)

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