Hi and good evening
Question, if I may:
can any Southwest Water customer legally be issued a debt demand, and then be taken straight to Court for a CCJ with no defence ?
Southwest Water debt letters and their CCJs again,
they seem to be the bane of people's lives.
I was advised that this website may be helpful,
so here goes...
I have what appears to be a Southwest Water Christmas job.
An elderly member of my family lives in a retirement complex,
and received a demand for a Southwest Water "debt" (>£200).
They also issued a county court claim (leading to a CCJ) just before Christmas 2017
(dirty trick really, there was no time to defend it within the fortnight).
She's usually very good but she's somehow upset these 'people'.
I know she's always paid her bill at the Post Office, so the SWW demand and the resultant CCJ are a mystery.
I'd call it a damn cheek.
If she'd been defaulting on a large sum for a long time, I would sort of understand it, but I'd expect South-west water to be regulated in these things.
Today the Court letter came and she's now got a CCJ for six years;
obviously she "admitted" the "debt" without telling us,
either to save herself trouble or out of some sense of duty.
The same thing happened to a neighbour just before Christmas last year.
My conclusion is to beware, and I'd be interested to hear if South-west Water broke any rules in this case or others.
I accept that the CCJ can't be undone now.
Many thanks.