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Bailiffs have traditionally struck fear into people. In the popular imagination, they’re irresistible forces that have the power to strip you of all your possessions. In reality, though, your attitude to bailiffs will depend largely on whether you’re a debtor or a creditor. Using a Bailiff If you’re owed money by a customer or tenant, there are many possible actions for recovering the debt. Most of these involve comm

If a customer owes you money for unpaid invoices, there are a number of ways of pursuing them to recover your money. Ultimately, you can take them to court or initiate an insolvency process against them. Either way, their assets will be assessed, and you can hope to receive at least a proportion of what you’re owed. But what if some of their assets are too well hidden to be found? It’s easier to do now than ever befo

A happy Easter and/or Passover to you — whichever you celebrate. We’re now at the start of the new tax year, and I hope you’ve made a resolution to start it by minimising both the debt you owe and the debt you’re owed. Strong, effective systems can help with both, but if you have difficulties recovering money that’s owed to you, you’re very welcome to get in touch with SJ Collections. Ne

A bailiff (‘enforcement agent’) may visit your home if you don’t pay your debts, eg a Council Tax bill, parking fine, court fine, county court or family court judgment. This will happen if you ignore letters saying that bailiffs will be used. You might be arrested if you don’t pay criminal debts, eg fines or penalty notices. A bailiff may also visit your home for other reasons, eg to serve court documents or give not

A small minority of bailiffs have been allowed to give the collections industry a bad name, a government minister has said. But Lords Faulks added that tough new regulations, coming into force in April, will tackle the rogue bailiffs while ensuring that debts can be collected. Faulks, a junior justice minister, urged representatives of bailiffs’ companies and local authorities to rise to the challenge of the new regi

Local authorities get a bad press these days and the latest example was the news last week that councils had referred 1.8 million debts to bailiffs in the last 12 months. The figures were gathered using Freedom of Information requests to all 374 local authorities in England and Wales by the Money Advice Trust, a charity formed in 1991 to help people ‘tackle their debts and manage their money wisely’. The trust said t