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Good day people, I've been sent over to your website from the very helpful members over at getoutofdebtfree.org. I was told i may be advised better here due to the nature of my situation.
So, I'll get straight into it, I was issued a penalty notice by the police in January this year, I didn't pay the initial fine of £90 in the allocated time of 30 days. The ticket I was issued had an invalid number to pay and to cut a long story short I got pissed off with ringing different offices and not being able to pay my fine so I put it away to do 'some other day', silly me :|
I moved address a month or two after all this and received contact about a month ago from my old landord informing me that I had a stack of post from HMCTS and Collectica and that bailiffs had visited the property trying to take goods. My fine now stands at £425 which I cannot afford to pay so whats my next step? My old landlord has informed them of my new residency however I haven't contacted Collectica myself yet as I don't want to enter into any contract with them via telephone.
Any help on this awkward situation would be so so so helpful, I don't know if I'm lawfully obliged to pay these bailiff fees, ideally I just want to pay the court what I owed them in the first place. If that can't be done though I would hope to put a payment plan in place thats realistic for me, £5 a week or something like that. Any info and help again is much much much appreicated, thank you in advance,
Christian
So, I'll get straight into it, I was issued a penalty notice by the police in January this year, I didn't pay the initial fine of £90 in the allocated time of 30 days. The ticket I was issued had an invalid number to pay and to cut a long story short I got pissed off with ringing different offices and not being able to pay my fine so I put it away to do 'some other day', silly me :|
I moved address a month or two after all this and received contact about a month ago from my old landord informing me that I had a stack of post from HMCTS and Collectica and that bailiffs had visited the property trying to take goods. My fine now stands at £425 which I cannot afford to pay so whats my next step? My old landlord has informed them of my new residency however I haven't contacted Collectica myself yet as I don't want to enter into any contract with them via telephone.
Any help on this awkward situation would be so so so helpful, I don't know if I'm lawfully obliged to pay these bailiff fees, ideally I just want to pay the court what I owed them in the first place. If that can't be done though I would hope to put a payment plan in place thats realistic for me, £5 a week or something like that. Any info and help again is much much much appreicated, thank you in advance,
Christian
I could try an obtain a copy of the ticket from the local police station though I wouldn't hold my breath after my last visit if you know what I'm saying..
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