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Can bailiffs take a car from closed private garden?


No

Bailiffs cannot break open a locked gate or entrance to domestic property.[1]

If the garden is not where the debtor usually lives, the bailiff is unable to take control of the debtor's goods there,[2] unless the bailiff applies to the court for that authority separately.[3][4]



[1] Paragraph 17 of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[2] Paragraph 14(6) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[3] Paragraph 15 of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[4] Civil Procedure Rule 84.9

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