Ask the fines officer to pay your fine with an attachment of earnings[1], or an attachment of benefits[2] and the court may make the order.
If you with withdraw your consent to the order, the fines officer must make an attachment of earnings order,[3] or an attachment of benefits order.[4]
Download and complete a form MC100[5] and using the template letter below, ask the fines officer to withdraw the warrant of control of the bailiff[6] to cease the enforcement.[7]
Tell the court you are having exceptional financial difficulty and ask for an attachment of earnings or benefits. Enclose the form MC100, and copy the letter by email to the bailiff company and by text to the bailiff.
Template Letter
Send the MC100 and the letter to the sentencing court and get a certificate of posting from the post office.
Send a copy of the letter only by text message to the bailiff to his mobile and make a screenshot of the sent text message to record the date you gave it.
Never give a form MC100 to a bailiff company, they are unauthorised to means-test defendants.
[1] Paragraph 9(2)(a) of Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003
[2] Paragraph 9(2)(b) of Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003
[3] Paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003
[4] Paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 5 of the Courts Act 2003
[5] Form MC100 Download
[6] Section 88(8) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012
[7] Paragraph 6(3)(c) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
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