Bailiffs - the true horrors - The Exposure TV documentary - Rossendales - Comments

[BankFodder]

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/exposure/week44/default.html

 

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[padja]

sounds good hopefully they will let people know their actual rights instead of the bailiffs fantasy take on them

[BankFodder]

I can tell you that some aspects of this docu are shocking!

[BankFodder]

Please email your friends and relatives about this programme.

[BankFodder]

Who can guess which is the most outrageously behaved firm?

[brassnecked]

Have mailed it to my list, and am putting a reminder to record this one....

[BankFodder]

Keep an eye open. The producer has just called me and said that there is a 2 week postponement

[wonkeydonkey]

Perhaps they would consider a follow up and take a look at the High Court system, it was over 30 years ago the £600 ceiling was set to allow a creditor to apply for writ of Fi'Fa' and 30 years ago £600 was a lot of money to be owed by the "ordinary" household and was therefore aimed in the main at business debts.

 

Today the household debtor, struggling in the present climate to keep a roof over their heads ,food on the table, clothes shoes on their childrens backs and feet find themselves facing utility companies quite happy to allow the £600+ being owed to them to becoming upwards of £5,000.

 

Logic tells me and probably the rest of the Forum, if that debtor cannot afford to pay the £600+ in affordable and sustainable amounts then they will have no chance of paying the High Court Enforcement Company the ridiculous amounts they have inflated the debt to with their charges and, of course the creditor will not see a penny of the money owed to them until such time as the HCE company get their fees paid in full. So why do they take such actions?????

 

Then we have the "seizure" of work vehicles, lets take a look at some of those.

 

We have the debtor working as a one man band scraping a living to keep the head just above water, along come the heavies and seize and remove the means to earning that living... the vehicle. To argue their case to that vehicle being essential to their work the debtor is then expected to travel from four corners of the country quite often to London, to answer to an Interpleader.

 

Firstly they have no idea what an Interpleader is let alone the procedures involved in defending it, then they cannot afford to travel to the RCJ as they no longer have an income due to their mode of transport being seized, so we have the debtor unable to defend the Interpleader and the High Court positioned to rule in favour of the HCE company...hmmmm ??????

 

So what if there is no vehicle to seize, no house to charge upon..... well they can always go for a bankruptcy order against the debtor and if successful that then results in nothing for the creditor and the HCE company's exhorbitant fees are also going to go down the pan... so they have achieved what?????

 

Take into consideration the costs the utility companies have incurred (paid for by the consumer) by sending in the heavies to frighten and cajole the debtor into paying thousands of pounds more than the debt then perhaps the £1 a week offered to them by the genuinely struggling debtor wanting to pay the debt, wasn't such a ridiculous offer after all????

 

Rant not over just a prelim to getting answers to some of the questions.

 

WD

[brassnecked]

Agreed WD the system is not merely crooked, but is seriously bent, and actually if the amount was £600 in the late 1960's when a 3 bed new home was I am told around £5000 no debt below around £6,000 should be enforced by writ of fi-fa, and HCEOs these days.

[seanamarts]

Who can guess which is the most outrageously behaved firm?

 

hmmm thats a tough one.... I would say either Marstons or JBW 3rd choice would be Rossendale

[seanamarts]

Please email your friends and relatives about this programme.

 

Will put it on the facebook group page

[padja]

I go Rossendales, Bristow & Sutor, Marstons

[brassnecked]

Stick Jacobs in there also, as they seem to be cropping up here more frequently, but Equita, Ross'n Robbers, Rossendales, and Marstons are pretty dire

[dorishaslop]

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/exposure/week42/default.html

 

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Edit:-

This has been postponed and is likely to be screened in week 44.

 

A breathing space for the bailiffs - but a chance for you to tell more people to get ready to watch it

I think I'm being a bit dim but I can't make out when or what this programme is going to be... I clicked the link but didn't mention the bailiffs

[seanamarts]

I think I'm being a bit dim but I can't make out when or what this programme is going to be... I clicked the link but didn't mention the bailiffs

 

It will only show up to week 42, which I presume was the week it was showing, it has now been moved to week 44 which is not on show yet.

[dorishaslop]

Many thanks

[brassnecked]

I think I'm being a bit dim but I can't make out when or what this programme is going to be... I clicked the link but didn't mention the bailiffs

 

 

As Bankfodder has already mentioned it has been postponed for 2 weeks, I had cached the original page earlier, so here is what was there:

 

Exposure

 

Episode: 4 of 6Monday, 17 October 2011, 10:35PM - 11:35PM

 

Factual

 

 

• Production house: Special Edition Films
  
• Press contacts: Grant Cunningham [email protected]
  
• Picture contacts: Peter Gray [email protected]
  
• Viewer enquiries: [email protected]
  

 

Bailiffs:

 

This film goes undercover to investigate the behaviour of the bailiffs instructed to chase millions of householders and car owners each year. It asks whether the voluntary guidelines that bailiffs are meant to follow are enough to protect the public.

 

 

Last edited: Tuesday, 4 October 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[josephbloggs]

Bailiff company in question perhaps trying to stop it getting shown.

Has the potential to lose contracts and damage buisness.

[seanamarts]

possibly, I think there may be a few bailiffs pooping their boxers and maybe a few CEO's corking their poopers:!:

[brassnecked]

possibly, I think there may be a few bailiffs pooping their boxers and maybe a few CEO's corking their poopers:!:

 

Couldn't happen to a nicer (not) bunch, They will be desperately trying to prevent this docu being shown, as it could seriously undermine the fear factor when they are exposed for what they really are.

[seanamarts]

I cant see how they will stop it from being aired though, in hindsight it will just prove they have something to hide.. Will that be a good thing, perhaps, but as we all know that its been done I think we could make more noise to have it aired than the bailiffs who appear on it having it stopped.

[dorishaslop]

What channel is it on please?

[outlawla]

possibly, I think there may be a few bailiffs pooping their boxers and maybe a few CEO's corking their poopers:!:

 

I think one of the CEO's may be from North East Lincolnshire Council.

 

 

Residents caught out with unlawful Council Tax penalties.doc

 

EDIT:

 

Changed Jpg. image for Doc. Should see it now

Edited October 6, 2011 by outlawla

[seanamarts]

I think one of the CEO's may be from North East Lincolnshire Council.

 

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[seanamarts]

what channel is it on please?

 

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