thank you for the welcome and this is my first post so if any mistakes and any babbaling i am appologising now.
i recieved a letter from the courts on 7/4/11 to say i owe £172.10 and have time to pay by 13/4/11. i am currently paying a fine by payment card and thought the letter was in conjunction with this fine. i rang fines office and they had no records and said it was with another district court and gave me a number to ring. i tried to ring and got no answer as it was late on a friday and following this we went on holiday. when we got back there was a letter from phillips bailiffs saying i owe £247.10 which is an increase of £75. i rang the court office again to try and set up another payment card but they said they had passed it on to bailiffs and there was a distress warrant against me with the bailiffs. i then recieved a hand delivered letter which was a notice of attendance saying that my balance had gone up £200 to £447.10.
the fine was issued at magistraits court for an unpaid train ticket which i had forgotten about and moved house and all letters were going to my old address. are these bailiff charges legal and do they have to be paid or can i get it back to court? i live with my partner now and she is very worried bout them trying to take her things as nothing in the house belongs to me. i rang the bailiffs and they said that the only way to get it back to court is after they had visited a number of times without result and an arrest warrant would be sent by the court for non payment, and presumably be charged for each visit.
if it were my house i would just ignore them but it is my partners house and her mother comes round after school to look after her daughter and she is worried about them pressuring her mother as she is 70 and also the embarrasment for my partner having to tell her mother not to let the bailiffs in!
i recieved a letter from the courts on 7/4/11 to say i owe £172.10 and have time to pay by 13/4/11. i am currently paying a fine by payment card and thought the letter was in conjunction with this fine. i rang fines office and they had no records and said it was with another district court and gave me a number to ring. i tried to ring and got no answer as it was late on a friday and following this we went on holiday. when we got back there was a letter from phillips bailiffs saying i owe £247.10 which is an increase of £75. i rang the court office again to try and set up another payment card but they said they had passed it on to bailiffs and there was a distress warrant against me with the bailiffs. i then recieved a hand delivered letter which was a notice of attendance saying that my balance had gone up £200 to £447.10.
the fine was issued at magistraits court for an unpaid train ticket which i had forgotten about and moved house and all letters were going to my old address. are these bailiff charges legal and do they have to be paid or can i get it back to court? i live with my partner now and she is very worried bout them trying to take her things as nothing in the house belongs to me. i rang the bailiffs and they said that the only way to get it back to court is after they had visited a number of times without result and an arrest warrant would be sent by the court for non payment, and presumably be charged for each visit.
if it were my house i would just ignore them but it is my partners house and her mother comes round after school to look after her daughter and she is worried about them pressuring her mother as she is 70 and also the embarrasment for my partner having to tell her mother not to let the bailiffs in!
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