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Re: Bailiffs and the DVLA
The TEC and the council have today confirmed the Stat Dec has been logged and a court order suspending bailiff action has been executed. For various reasons that aren't worth going into, I think there's a good chance the Stat Dec will result in a decision in my favour - that's if the council even contest it. Funnily enough, when I met the council parking official in person, it was very clear they were not going to consider cancelling the warrant there and then, literally no matter what reason I gave, no matter how justified my claims. She also claimed that any fees charged by the bailiff would be entirely legitimate despite not being able to define what those fees were and at what point they would become cease to be legitimate. She was extremely defensive from the get go and wouldn't really enter into any kind of discussion. When I pulled out and switched on my recorder (I'm a journalist) she completely lost what little composure she had.
That won't be the end of it, however. I will look very carefully into the possibility of pursuing the bailiff and the bailiff company for criminal fraud. I might even try to make this into interesting feature material. You never know, the whole thing could end up making me money.
The TEC and the council have today confirmed the Stat Dec has been logged and a court order suspending bailiff action has been executed. For various reasons that aren't worth going into, I think there's a good chance the Stat Dec will result in a decision in my favour - that's if the council even contest it. Funnily enough, when I met the council parking official in person, it was very clear they were not going to consider cancelling the warrant there and then, literally no matter what reason I gave, no matter how justified my claims. She also claimed that any fees charged by the bailiff would be entirely legitimate despite not being able to define what those fees were and at what point they would become cease to be legitimate. She was extremely defensive from the get go and wouldn't really enter into any kind of discussion. When I pulled out and switched on my recorder (I'm a journalist) she completely lost what little composure she had.
That won't be the end of it, however. I will look very carefully into the possibility of pursuing the bailiff and the bailiff company for criminal fraud. I might even try to make this into interesting feature material. You never know, the whole thing could end up making me money.
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