Debt Management Agencies posing as Solicitors

[QC15]

There seems to be a lot of debt management companies posing as Solicitors. Posing as a Solicitor is a criminal offence, they are putting their names to legal proceedings as well as issuing claim forms in the original debtor's name when the account has been sold on. There needs to be transparancy in debt cases, they say that MPs have to show transparancy well so should debt management companies. David Cameron and Nick Clegg have said that people losing their homes should be the last resort, well caggers on here know that is not true, people are losing their homes every day on unenforceable agreements that have been forged in a lot of incidences and are totally without merit.

 

I am going to take up the mantle and campaign for this practice to be stopped, no one is saying that companies should not be able to recover monies that are owed to them but they should only be able to do so if they have the right paperwork, the harrassement that goes on by telephone has to stop as well. Debtors should be treated with respect. David Cameron and Nick Clegg said that the vulnerable in society will be protected, I don't see that with debt, the creditors will persecute someone to their death and indeed they have.

 

I am going to make a difference to people's lives, I don't believe that people should get into debt and then try to get out of paying the same, I would never advocate that, the people I meet on this site have very genunie needs and should be helped.

 

I would apprecaite any replies of people's experiences at the hands of these so called creditors, I am determined to try and change the law, my life has been hell through all of this and through no fault of my own.

[Guest Cartaphilus]

There seems to be a lot of debt management companies posing as Solicitors

Think you mean a DCA - debt collecting/collection agency - don't you?

 

I am going to make a difference to people's lives, I don't believe that people should get into debt and then try to get out of paying the same, I would never advocate that, the people I meet on this site have very genunie needs and should be helped.

I think the obvious question is 'how?'

 

I would apprecaite any replies of people's experiences at the hands of these so called creditors,

I think the whole of CAG is full of those.

 

I don't believe that people should get into debt and then try to get out of paying the same

Should? I don't honestly think it's that black and white TBH.

 

I am determined to try and change the law, my life has been hell through all of this and through no fault of my own.

 

Again, how and what provisions do you have at your personal disposal to change it thus?

[Guest Cartaphilus]

I see ... then. Oh.

[Fred Bassett]

Join the club mate.