Hi Guys, First time post for me here! I am currently involved in a lengthy battle against Equita Ltd, which has resulted in me issuing a Letter of Claim for various reasons. Currently in the process of awaiting a response from Equita / Capita, so I am unable to offer detail in the matter at this point. It's in respect of a PCN, which has been paid. Equita Ltd have previously confirmed that the matter is closed and the warrant returned to the Council. The Council have confirmed that the warrant has been returned and the PCN has been closed as paid. However, despite this, Equita Ltd sent a letter saying that a bailiff was due to visit. I alerted the Council and Equita Ltd / Capita. The Council contacted Equita Ltd and instructed them to stop. However, despite this, yesterday, a bailiff visited my property and put through a Removal Notice, which states he is in possession of a Warrant. He doesnt have one, and the Council are backing me up. I know that Equita Ltd are looking to recover their fees, after I requested a chargeback from my bank, in respect of alleged fraud, which forms the basis of my letter of claim. Equita Ltd have put in writing the fact that they have a warrant, when they dont. The Council told them they dont, the day before the bailiff arrived and are using an invalid warrant to collect their fees! !Now waiting to hear what happens next, as I have provided proof of this to the Council, Equita and Capita. Wonder what happens next?!

Hi there, Just looking for some advice of where we may be able to go with this. A bailiff from Marston Group, Mr Harvey, called at my house on Saturday in regards to having the car untaxed on 3 occassions, 2 in 2011 and once 2010. He said he had a distress warrant. the list of what he showed had 5 incidents on there, 2 of which seemed to be duplicated as the same date was shown. They want £1500.0 from us. Now to be honest, when the incidents occured I was in a bit of a state and was hiding debt letters from my partner. I can't remember what came through and what I hid. I have not been hiding anything since June last year when everything came to a head with our mortgage. So it is likely I hid letters in regard to this. W have not had a letter from Marston's to date, though they say they sent one at the beginning of November 2012. We did not let the bailiff in the house, and he didn't ask to come in, we took the bit of paper he gave us and as we'd changed cars over that period we needed to find out what it was in relation to. We said we'd call him today. He went away. Today we have been in touch with the court, and looks like it was us and we owe this money. The court advised that the distress warrant would have expired on 20/03/2013 and he showed up on the 23/03/2013...the court advised that now they have made contact this would give the bailiff 3 extra months to deal with it. After this i went on to check to see if he was certificated, there are some Mr Harvey's on the register, but none showing at being employed by the Marston Group. When i phoned Marston's they advised his number and that that "looked old" and they did not recognise the name Harvey. So my partner phoned Mr Harvey himself and he got a bit cagey and with nervous laughter stated he was no longer dealing with it as his certification had "ran out this morning". We are currently trying to get hold of the courts to see if they can take the debt back and we deal with the courts, hopefully arrange some sort of payment plan with them, and maybe get the bailiff fines taken off. Just kind of wondering if there is anything that we can do about the fact that this guy seems to not be certificated. I was advised that there is a grace period of 6 months for a bailiff to be able to act whilst getting his certification, but with this Mr harvey's dodgy reaction if there is something else we can do, maybe find out how long he's been employed by Marston etc. We can't afford to pay the debt in one go and will cll upon the mercy of the courts with a budget sheet. we aren't in any sort of vulnerable position so we won't have that on our side. We are quite happy to accept the debt and a reasonable amount of time to pay. Thanks in advance for any help given. Claire