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Hi guys. I think I registered on here a few years ago after being advised too on PEPIPOO when fighting against BW Legal for a PCN given on my car, when we'd actually paid for a ticket and displayed it (and retained said ticket) but I'm not sure I actually ever posted. After a few rounds of letters and a lot of help, we eventually made BW Legal shut up, so unfortunately I am already aware of some of their 'reasoning' and what type of company they are.
My reason for posting today is some recent letters from BW Legal regarding a British Gas debt at a property me and my partner used to rent over four years ago before we bought our current house. The dates in question are for a period around five days after we moved out to around 20+ days later, presumably when the landlord hadn't yet filled it or till it was switched to another supplier. The energy account at that address was actually in my name and on my credit file its all up to date and was closed the following month with no missed payments having supplied final readings etc. The letters from BW Legal are actually chasing my partner who never had an energy account at that address, though she did take on the energy account at our new home with British Gas.
The initial letter from BW Legal says they've enclosed a letter from British Gas (just a letter to the occupier with a BG heading giving no account number and saying it's been sold to PRAC Financial Ltd) and that after a soft search with a credit reference agency to establish the occupier who was resident at some or all of the supply period. Based on those results they believe she was an occupant or are was still linked to the supply address between the stated period.
My partner then replied denying their claims of owing any monies at the address, also stating she never had an energy account there and stating that they must try harder with their soft searches.
BW Legal have now responded thanking us for notifying them that she was not resident of the supply address during the supply period. Then said a Trace verification has you still linked to the address during the supply period, this could be due to you not yet having updated your suppliers of your new address.... They then go onto say in an effort to resolve this they would appreciate if she could provide evidence that she is not liable for this - such as a check out report, final council tax bill, new tenancy agreement or confirmation of property sale or any email of correspondence providing or paying final meter reads.
Just wondering how we play this. Obviously it's 4+ years on and I'm quite cautious as to what we should give them as the last thing I want is to give them something to help them spin out anymore leverage.
I've had a quick look around to try and found cases relevent to ours and read about sending a 'prove it' letter, does that sound like the next step?
My reason for posting today is some recent letters from BW Legal regarding a British Gas debt at a property me and my partner used to rent over four years ago before we bought our current house. The dates in question are for a period around five days after we moved out to around 20+ days later, presumably when the landlord hadn't yet filled it or till it was switched to another supplier. The energy account at that address was actually in my name and on my credit file its all up to date and was closed the following month with no missed payments having supplied final readings etc. The letters from BW Legal are actually chasing my partner who never had an energy account at that address, though she did take on the energy account at our new home with British Gas.
The initial letter from BW Legal says they've enclosed a letter from British Gas (just a letter to the occupier with a BG heading giving no account number and saying it's been sold to PRAC Financial Ltd) and that after a soft search with a credit reference agency to establish the occupier who was resident at some or all of the supply period. Based on those results they believe she was an occupant or are was still linked to the supply address between the stated period.
My partner then replied denying their claims of owing any monies at the address, also stating she never had an energy account there and stating that they must try harder with their soft searches.
BW Legal have now responded thanking us for notifying them that she was not resident of the supply address during the supply period. Then said a Trace verification has you still linked to the address during the supply period, this could be due to you not yet having updated your suppliers of your new address.... They then go onto say in an effort to resolve this they would appreciate if she could provide evidence that she is not liable for this - such as a check out report, final council tax bill, new tenancy agreement or confirmation of property sale or any email of correspondence providing or paying final meter reads.
Just wondering how we play this. Obviously it's 4+ years on and I'm quite cautious as to what we should give them as the last thing I want is to give them something to help them spin out anymore leverage.
I've had a quick look around to try and found cases relevent to ours and read about sending a 'prove it' letter, does that sound like the next step?
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