As I understand it:-
1) These are proposed changes ....NOT LAW YET : Write to your MP and ask them to vote against it.
2) A debt collector has no rights at all and should not be confused with bailiffs. Bailiffs are appointed by the court, debt collectors aren't.
3) If you have debts, your creditors will have to go to court to get a judgement (you get informed and given a chance to reply); once the judgement is made, and you don't pay, Bailiffs may be appointed to try to recover the debt but they will have a court order to show when they call.
4) Bailiffs being told that under 2004 regulations they can break in will be collecting court FINES and NOT civil debt.
5) Get your facts straight before you go Alpha; talk about lynch mob mentality!
If you want to change things, go the correct route and you stand a chance; using violence because you think you know your facts when actually, you don't, is pretty dodgy.
1) Will look into doing that.
1, 2, 3, 4)
Her Majesty’s Courts Service has already handed out guidance to privately employed bailiffs, pointing out that under legislation passed in 2004 they can already break down doors as a last resort to collect court fines
In one case, an 89-year-old grandmother returned home to find a bailiff sitting in her chair having drawn up a list of her possessions. He was pursuing a parking fine owed by her son, who did not even live at the address.
5) Given that they're already getting wrong addresses, personal details and breaking into the wrong houses I don't think i've got my facts
that mixed up. I did mis-read the whole, has already happened/is about to happen thing but i got the majority of it. Under your own point, given scenario 3, someone has an old tenants address (my current address) and have sent warnings etc to them. The post either gets thrown out or left on the side as its not addressed to us. The old tenants don't get the letters, don't turn up to the court appeal, it all goes ahead by the courts order. One day the bailiffs turn up
Given my current example of the fact we've had letters sent to this address, replied explaining we are new tenants and have still received final warnings anyway its not hard to predict there'll be a balls up along the line somewhere.
All i'm saying is if it did happen, they'd think they are in the right after having gone through the correct channels, i know they're not right because its my stuff and unfortunately it'll be within my property where the initial meeting/confrontation will reside. Only they'll have the powers to restrain anyone inside who causes a fuss.