Protecting your car from bailiffs.

Bailiffs drive around neighbourhoods at night with an ANPR camera looking for vehicles with inp[aid traffic debts, then clamp them.

This called a drive-by clamping, At 6am, the bailiff demands the owner to pay the debt to remove the wheel clamp.

Ways to protect your vehicle from bailiffs.

Have someone else own your car in trust.^[1]

Keep it on private land other than where you live, e.g. neighbours allocated parking bay.^[2]

Buy it on hire purchase.^[1]

Use it for work and its value is under £1,350.^[3]

Register it at an address in Scotland^[4] placing it out of jurisdiction for a Notice of Enforcement to be given to the debtor's address.^[5]

Minicab, taxi drivers and couriers, own your car in a limited company with two or more directors.^[1]

Keep a disabled blue badge displayed inside.^[6]

Park it away from ANPR vans crawling for unpaid traffic debts.

Re-register your car with a cherished number plate.^[7]

Sell the car,^[9] and buy another. The new owner makes a third-party claim.^[10]

^{[1] Paragraph 10 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] Regulation 4(1)(a) of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013

[4] Regulation 1(2) of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013

[5] Paragraph 7.1 of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

[6] Paragraph 4(1)(d) of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

[7] See: https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/

[8] Section 172(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988

[9] Vehicle must be sold before the warrant of control is issued: Paragraph 4 of Schedule 12 of the Tribunals Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

[10] Civil Procedure Rule 85.4}