#bailiffs : Cheeky bailiff

[terriersaregreat]

brassnecked - getting back to the subject , what's happening now ?

[rebel11]

Any organisation that uses a bailiff, e.g. council's, TVLicensing etc, should carry out an assessment to find out if the debtor is a 'Vulnerable Person' before a bailiff is ever contacted.

[brassnecked]

brassnecked - getting back to the subject , what's happening now ?

 

Watching to get his index when he re-visits, and pass it to the police, who were interested in him for his potential to cause distress to a random person whom he has no business with.

They seemed to think this is akin to a bogus caller to a vulnerable person who may worry unduly about being quizzed by a bailiff who has no legitimate business with them.

 

rebel11 Any organisation that uses a bailiff, e.g. council's, TVLicensing etc, should carry out an assessment to find out if the debtor is a 'Vulnerable Person' before a bailiff is ever contacted.

Agreed but TV Licencing run for the BBC by Capita, use a self employed sales force to enforce TV Licences, they are on a commission structure, and are as inventive as bailiffs with their non existent powers. Councils have no excuse for not checking first Edited April 19, 2011 by brassnecked

[padja]

perhaps if council had a fit and proper test for bailiffs before appointment and include say CAB on panel, might see a big clean up of industry. as for BBC licence Crapita dont get me started these are jokers and chancers

[Ganymede]

They didn't seem best pleased, perhaps I should set a no win no fee merchant on them for stress and mental trauma, it would be all they deserve. As it happens i am disabled so would come into the vulnerable category. I have told my MP as I had spoken to him later at a meeting on another issue. He wants me to email him the details including the name of the company, which I now know as the bailiff answered his mobile and gave their name.

 

 

I wouldn't waste your time. No solicitor would touch your "claim" as there is no injury.

[brassnecked]

I wouldn't waste your time. No solicitor would touch your "claim" as there is no injury.

 

I wouldn't waste my time, had no intention of claiming anything, as there is no injury to me, there is no breach of a duty of care to me as per

Donoghue v Stevenson All ER I [1932] AC 562 HOL, and cases that followed.

Now if I had had a heart attack as a result of the bailiff''s approach to me well who knows?:lol: If the chain of causation could be linked to his approach there would have been one very worried bailiff. My remarks about ambulance chasers were in jest. my concern was any breach of DPA, or other confidential information he may have spouted to me, and his affect on someone of a nervous disposition approached in the same way. The MP is concerned about how he acted and whether he had breached any regulations regarding confidentiality, so it is nothing to do with PI.

Thanks anyway Ganymede