Enforcement is the use of various processes to attempt to recover the judgment debt owed to you if payment is not made by the debtor. We will advise you on the best way to enforce your judgment. The various methods of enforcement and the fixed fee, on which we will charge VAT (at the current rate of 20%), for each are shown below:
The Cost of Enforcement Action | £ Fixed Fee |
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Order to Obtain Information | £150 + £30 VAT |
Warrant of Control | £150 + £30 VAT |
Attachment of Earnings | £150 + £30 VAT |
Instruct Enquiry Agent to trace | £50 + £10 VAT |
High Court Writ of Control | £150 + £30 VAT |
Statutory Demand | £450 + £90 VAT |
Charging Order | £450 + £90 VAT |
You can read more information about the use of Statutory Demands here, this page also has information on the use of Bankruptcy petitions and Winding up petitions in Insolvency action. We will let you know our charges for these if we advise that they are necessary.
The Court fees for making applications for the various enforcement methods are shown in the table below.
The Cost of Enforcement Action | £ Court Fee (no VAT) |
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Order to Obtain Information | £100 |
Warrant of Control | £100 |
Attachment of Earnings | £30 |
Instruct Enquiry Agent to trace | From £82.50 |
High Court Writ of Control | From £111.75 |
Charging Order | £100 |
Issuing a statutory demand does not involve the Court and there is therefore no Court fee detailed in the table.
If you need help with debt recovery then please do get in touch.