Solicitor recommendation

[britvic]

Hello

Can any one please recommend the professional services of a solicitor who has experience in prosecuting local authorities and their bailiffs for conversion.

Thank you

britvic

[Amy]

Re: Solicitor recommendation

Conversion? I am sorry, I don't understand the question.

[britvic]

Re: Solicitor recommendation

Hi Amy

Please accept my apologies for not making myself clear.

Last year, the LA (council tax) bailiff seized and impounded a vehicle belonging to another member of my family. After complaining and receiving a load of rubbish from the LA and the bailiff and after paying a charge, the vehicle was released. Both organisations recognised the fact that the vehicle was not owned by the debtor.

Then last week, one of the two bailiffs who seized and impounded the vehicle last year, returned and seized and impounded the very same vehicle.

I believe that by seizing and impounding the vehicle a second time is depriving the owner of that property in the full knowledge that they could not do so, which I believe is illegal distress and is therefore conversion.

I am enquiring as to whether or not any one knows a professional solicitor who is capable of and not afraid of pursuing the LA and bailiff in such a matter.

Many thanks

britvic

[Amy]

Re: Solicitor recommendation

Ah right, I'm with you now and you are correct. Although, that said, it is the responsibility of the debtor to disprove ownership and not the responsibility of the bailiff to prove it.

Have you tried complaining yourself to the bailiffs by way of either writing to them or filing a Form 4 complaint?

[britvic]

Re: Solicitor recommendation

Hi Amy

Many thanks for your reply.

It just makes me so incensed that the bailiff never gained peaceful entry at any time to the debtors premises and simply slapped a notice of distress on the car's windshield demanding his charges the first time and then on the second occasion seized the car and did not affix any notice at all to the car but pushed through the door of the debtor a notice demanding one lump sum within 24 hours with no breakdown of his charges or indeed the debt.

Can I issue a Form 4 complaint to the county court on the grounds of conversion?

It was my understanding that a Form 4 was just for debtor's complaints. Please forgive if I am wrong.

Kind regards

britvic