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Hi, So the company is capital recoveries,sending in my wife's name and yes for a short fall. They don't seem to have sent mine yet..lol.. As insaid it is a long story which I did post at the time on here when going through the repossession,basically Kensington claiming they only had fax and not email etc and just making things difficult so when we moved away I made things awkward for them explaining I won't be able to forward anything as I don't have fax..yes I know I should have but they put us through a difficult time and didn't make things easy. Why would it have been removed from the credit reports within 5 years though,this is what I don't understand.And to collect on it now would they need to re-apply for anything. I don't deny I must owe something.... -
By BankFodder · Posted
On the basis of what you say, you will have no difficulty bringing a successful claim against him. The problem is that first of all, bringing a claim of this size – even if you win will incur costs for yourself and it seems to me that you may have problems enforcing the judgement. It is never worth beginning a claim unless you know that you can identify assets belonging to the defendant so that you can enforce the judgement. If you can't enforce judgement then bring any claim is simply a waste of money. The second problem here is that your claim exceeds the £10,000 small claims limit and this means that costs will be even greater. Also, in the event that he starts to cause problem and resists the claim, you could find that your costs are escalating and once again even if you win, you will not be able to enforce the judgement and you will lose everything. If you happen to lose, then it would be catastrophic because you would have to pay a substantial part of his cost as well. If you want to proceed with this at all then I think that you are going to have to look at away of dividing the claim up into smaller parts so that you can identify a particular aspect of it which is less than £10,000 to deal with. A claim of £2000 or £3000 would be much easier and much cheaper and then if you won that, you could attempt the enforcement and see where that got you. On the basis of that, you could decide to proceed with further claims – attempting each time to keep the value of the claim to less than £10,000. At least if you had a successful claim for £2000 and you are unable to enforce it, you would have kept your costs to a minimum. Also, it would have the effect of impacting on his credit file which he might find rather difficult to deal with. You can even bring a number of smaller claims if you simply wanted to hit is credit file and causing a great deal of difficulty over a long period of time. That might persuade him to start dealing with you. He says that he is insured – but you aren't able to get hold of his insurance details. If you got a judgement against him then you might find some way of persuading him/forcing him to supply you with his insurance details – if they exist. However, I can imagine that his insurance will not cover him for bad work. It will only cover him for accidents. -
whos the fleecers thats trying to scam you? i will gather you mean there was a shortfall debt? -
Seeing your posts I am feeling very grateful that the online process was not available last year when I first had to apply so didn’t choose it for the second one. Paying the fee was my big problem as that had to be done over the phone but other than that I had no issues. I am convinced that sending all documentation in one package to one place was no bad thing. Other than waiting on the ombudsman I’m not sure where you can look to. -
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