If you have personal debt and own a limited company, can bailiffs take from the company?


No

A company is a completely separate legal entity to any of its directors.

Bailiffs may only take control of goods only of they are the goods of the debtor.[1]

If bailiffs takes control of the company’s goods for a debt owed by a director, then any director of the company, which can be the same director as the debtor, may make a third-party claim to controlled goods,[2] and recover costs,[3][4][5] and damages.[6][7]



[1] Paragraph 10 of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[2] Civil Procedure Rule 85.4
[3] Civil Procedure Rule 44.3
[4] Civil Procedure Rule 46.5
[5] Practice Direction 46.5 Rule 3.1
[6] Section 3 of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977
[7] See Making a third-party claim to controlled goods