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Your rights when bailiffs visit your home - entering your home, debts, complaining about private bailiffs, court bailiffs, civilian enforcement officers, certificated enforcement agents. Includes information from the withdrawn EX345 guidance.
A bailiff (‘enforcement agent’) may visit your home if you do not pay your…
You can complain about a bailiff (‘enforcement agent’) if you think…
Minimum standards for bailiffs and enforcement agents involved in taking goods from people who owe others money.
How your local council can help if you're struggling to pay Council Tax - and what action they can take to get any money you owe from you
Ask a court bailiff to hand-deliver papers to the respondent in family proceedings for you.
You need a magistrate to endorse the appointment of a private water bailiff to police a body of water in Northern Ireland
Claimants can use this form to tell a bailiff about potential risks of seizing property from a defendant, such as whether the defendant has ever been violent. This form is also known as a 'bailiff risk assessment questionnaire'.
Ask for a court bailiff to hand-deliver papers to the other party in family court proceedings.
What to do if you receive a county court judgment (CCJ) - how to get it set aside or change what you pay, what happens if you do not pay, how to search the register. Includes information from the withdrawn...
This call for evidence asks about people’s experiences of the 2014 reforms which regulate how enforcement agents (bailiffs) operate.
Form 4: Complaint against a certificated bailiff (Distress for Rent Rules 1988 Rule 8).
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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