Storage fees charged to collect your car after the debt was paid

When you pay the amount outstanding^[1] and the property in the vehicle ceases to be bound.^[2]

The amount outstanding is made of two components, the first component is the debt owed to the creditor^[3] and the second component any amount recoverable from proceeds of the sale.^[4]

If the debtor pays the amount outstanding plus the statutory fees to the bailiff company ending the enforcement power because the property in the goods ceased to be bound.^[2]

If the bailiff pound, without a contract with the vehicle owner, or keeper, holds the vehicle as a security to get a money transfer, the owner or keeper may recover that money because it is conversion.^[5][6]

Template: Notice of Claim,^[7]

Send the letter to the bailiff company and get a certificate of posting from the post office.

Give a copy of the letter to the bailiff company by email and make a screenshot of the sent email capturing the time you gave it.

Send a copy of the letter by text message to the bailiff to his mobile and make a screenshot of the sent text message to record the time you gave it.

Keep all screenshots for your file.

^{[1] Paragraph 50(3) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[2] Paragraph 6(3)(a) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[3] Paragraph 50(3)(a) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[4] Paragraph 50(3)(b) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
[5] Section 1 of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977
[6] See Trover
[7] Rule 6, Practice Direction – Pre-Action Conduct And Protocols}