Moved, but bailiffs don't have your new address

Bailiffs may take the law into their own hands and attempt debtor tracing action by searching online and your social media activity and turn up knowing you have not been given a statutory notice. This is in breach of official guidelines.


Official Guidelines:

The Government published official guidelines called, Taking Control of Goods: National Standards 2014, of which Paragraph 12 states:

Creditors must not issue a warrant knowing that the debtor is not at the address, as a means of tracing the debtor at no cost.

Bailiffs tracing debtors to a new address stand to gain financially because the risk the debtor paying the creditor at the compliance stage is eliminated and can charge the full £310 compliance stage and enforcement stage fees together.

If notice has not been given to the debtor at his current address, then enforcement fails, and the bailiff is unable to recover fees

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If the debt is being enforced is genuine, then settle it with the creditor or council.

That kills the enforcement power and takes the bailiff and his fees out of the loop.