Court Bailiff

A County Court Bailiff can enforce debts under £600 or debts that are regulated by the Consumer Credit Act and under £25,000. Bailiffs are employed by the Court and as with the HCEO who do get paid on results are not necessarily incentivised to collect the debt. They will often only make visits during office hours whereas a HCEO is more flexible.

Appeals

Once the court has made its decision, you have a limited time in which to appeal.  You cannot appeal against the lower court’s decision just because you think the judge ‘got it wrong’. You can only appeal if you have proper legal grounds – for example, if you can show that the decision was wrong because of a serious mistake or because the procedure was not followed properly.

In most cases, you will have to ask a judge’s permission to appeal (unless you were already granted permission at your hearing). The judge will only grant this permission if they think the appeal has a real chance of succeeding or in family proceedings, there is some other valid reason for your appeal to be heard.

You must file your appellant’s notice:

• within the time limit set by the judge whose order you are appealing against

• if the judge sets no time limit, within 21 days of the decision you want to appeal against

Further information on how to Appeal can be found on the Government website here.  

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If you believe that you have grounds for an appeal against a case decision that you have dealt with yourself, we can assist you with this.

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