Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

[Salrob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Just spoke to the council the man on the phona said that as they had been passed to the bailiffs there is nothing they can do. I tried to explain about our vulnerable situation but he flat out refused that there was anything they could do. I knew thy wouldnt be helpful

[Salrob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

He told me to contact B&S which I am terrified about doing. Does anyone know of a template for a letter of complain about this?

[CleverClogs]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Just spoke to the council the man on the phona said that as they had been passed to the bailiffs there is nothing they can do. I tried to explain about our vulnerable situation but he flat out refused that there was anything they could do.

Did you get that numpty's name?

[bizzybob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Just spoke to the council the man on the phona said that as they had been passed to the bailiffs there is nothing they can do. I tried to explain about our vulnerable situation but he flat out refused that there was anything they could do. I knew thy wouldnt be helpful

There is EVERYTHING they can do, they remain 100% in control of the debt and can recall it from the bailiff anytime, send in a Formal complaint to Head of parking council CEO, elected leader, and your MP, the council are wholly liable for their bailiffs reluctance to recognise your vulnerability under the national standards.

If hey have levied the same goods more than once then one of the levies is unlawful anyway, along with the fact the car would not even clear the bailiff fees if taken and sold. Plenty of grounds to complain.

[Salrob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

I didnt get his name
What should I write in my letter?

[bizzybob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Probably Richard Head or R Sole!

[bizzybob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

I didnt get his name
What should I write in my letter?

Send marked Formal Complaint , put in it that you are vulnerable due to being wholly reliant on means tested benefits, the council officials are being obstructive and along with their bailiffs for which they are wholly liable jointly and severally, are ignoring ther national Standards, put that the goods levied would never fetch enough at auction to evej clear any of the removal and sale fees let alone any of the debt. Also if the car has been levied twice, then the second levy is unlawful as the bailiff would them be levying HIS property, a no no under the law. Other Beagles can also add helpful content for you.

[Salrob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Thank you. I will definatly get that in writing...

[bluebottle]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Hi i really hope someone can help me as Im at my wits end...
This morning at 11am I had a visit from a bristow and sutor bailiff, I was upstairs watching a film with my son and his two friends when we heard the loud knock at the door. I instinctively knew it was a bailiff and ditn want to answer the door. Then I heard the door opening. My friend who was here with his two sons ran down and told the bailiff I wasnt in. He left a notice of removal expenses list and a notification of visit with charges of 243.61 added for his visit today. Then this evening at 7pm my friend used the car to drop his two boys home, he is named on the policy to bring the premium down. When he went outside the bailiff was still there, he followed him to his sons home and blocked the car in the road, he informed him that he was going to be siezing the car tonight, to which my friend told him he wasnt. My friend then drove the car back to my house and told me what had happened. Then a letter dropped through the door with a notcie of seizure and an inventory of goods, naming the car as the good siezed only thing is he hasnt taken the car? Im so confused as to what this means. I am a single parent on income support and have no way of paying these ridiculous charges they keep heaping on me. I just dont know what to do or where I stand now...Ive been trying to get hold of CAB since this happened but there is noone available. I really hope someone can help me. Thanks Sally.

Am I to understand this neanderthal deliberately blocked a public highway and used coercion to levy on and seize the car? If this is correct, the levy is, IMHO, totally invalid and the bailiff's actions potentially illegal. Any levy must be gained by peaceable means. That means bailiffs must not use physical force, coercion or deception in order to gain or secure the levy. In your case, $*** for Brains committed an offence of wilful obstruction of the public highway, an offence under the Highways Act, at the very least. Following someone is also an offence, but under the Public Order Act 1986. I have to agree with the others that this sounds very much like the bailiff levying on goods of low value in order to gain a financial advantage for himself and B & S.

Your local police force will be Hampshire Constabulary and from what I know of them, they don't take kindly to this sort of behaviour by certificated bailiffs. I cannot speak for those stationed on the Isle of Wight, but I do know those on the mainland "kick ass" where bailiffs are concerned.

[CleverClogs]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Its about 2 parking charges and they breakdown of charges are as follows....
parking penalty charge#1 112.00 letter fee 13.44 attendance to levy fee 177.61
PPC#2 82.00 letter fee 13.44 attendace to levy fee 138.80
plus costs incurred to remove goods 216.00

How in the name of the FSM did the oaf calculate those "fees"?

[Fair-Parking]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

You don't have to contact the bailiff and I strongly recommend that you do not. It never serves any purpose. Bailiffs never listen.

The local authority involved cannot wash it hands of this. It is entirely responsible for the actions of the agents it employed to collect its alleged debt. That has been subject of several county court judgments.

Perhaps the next time this lamentable council attempts to charge a dog owner when the animal fouls the pavement, it will accept the owner's plea to 'refer the matter to the dog'.

[bluebottle]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Haha no its not a funeral vehicle....and no its none of those other things either, its my clapped out old banger that I am desparatly trying to hold onto becuase I'll never be able to afford another one!
Its about 2 parking charges and they breakdown of charges are as follows....
parking penalty charge#1 112.00 letter fee 13.44 attendance to levy fee 177.61
PPC#2 82.00 letter fee 13.44 attendace to levy fee 138.80
plus costs incurred to remove goods 216.00 :S

Which department of the council should I phone?

Hypothetically speaking where would I stand if the car had been sold in the last few days? The bailiff didnt actully see me driving it :S

B & S are seriously extracting the renal excretion as regards fees which should be something like -

PCN No.1

PCN = £112.00
Letter = £11.20
1st Visit = £34.50
VAT = £9.14
TOTAL = £166.84

PCN No.2

PCN = £82.00
Letter = £11.20
1st Visit = £28.00
VAT = £7.84
TOTAL = £129.04

Unless the vehicle has been removed by the bailiff, it is an upfront fee and, accordingly, fraudulent and illegal

[Salrob]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Ok I've just been into town to buy a ream of paper and some fresh printer ink. I will write the letters out later when my son has gone to his dads and then if I post it on here will you wonderful beagles take a look at it for me? I went to CAB today and they werent very helpful really...I told them about the vulnerable persons circumstance and they didnt really seem to understand and certainly didnt know of the legislation. I also asked them about the notice being served on the same day as the seizure if that was illegal and they didnt know, they said I could challenge it.
BB just to be clear, he blocked the car in the street and informed my friend (not me) that he intended to sieze the car, (after he had followed him halfway round the town) he then came back to my address and posted the seizure notice through the door.
I'll be starting my letter writing enslaught around 5pm. Hope some of you will be around to help
Thank you so much for your advice so far

[bluebottle]

Re: Please Help. Bristow and Sutor want to seize my car

Ok I've just been into town to buy a ream of paper and some fresh printer ink. I will write the letters out later when my son has gone to his dads and then if I post it on here will you wonderful beagles take a look at it for me? I went to CAB today and they werent very helpful really...I told them about the vulnerable persons circumstance and they didnt really seem to understand and certainly didnt know of the legislation. I also asked them about the notice being served on the same day as the seizure if that was illegal and they didnt know, they said I could challenge it.
BB just to be clear, he blocked the car in the street and informed my friend (not me) that he intended to sieze the car, (after he had followed him halfway round the town) he then came back to my address and posted the seizure notice through the door.
I'll be starting my letter writing enslaught around 5pm. Hope some of you will be around to help
Thank you so much for your advice so far

Could you describe EXACTLY what the bailiff did and what happened leading up to him doing so. It is very important that these facts are accurate as the bailiff may have committed a criminal offence and the levy and seizure may be invalid and unlawful/illegal as a result.