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Bailiffs: some good news

Remember those government plans ‘proposing wide-ranging new powers for bailiffs to break into homes and to use “reasonable force” against householders who try to protect their valuables’?

Looks like they’re being abandoned:

[F]ollowing a comprehensive reassessment of the provisions in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 ordered by the Secretary of State for Justice, the Government will not be extending bailiffs’ powers of entry and the use of force by enforcement agents…

Good news.


Posted on March 17th, 2009 at 2:41pm under Eye Catching Initiatives, New Labour

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  1. Sim-O (92 comments.) on 17.03.2009 at 15:04 Permalink | Reply

    Yay! now, where did I put that credit card?

  2. Fellow Traveller on 17.03.2009 at 15:23 Permalink | Reply

    One feels the same sense of relief one would when a torturer puts down the pair of pliers he has toyed with in his hand for the last few minutes. Obviously, he thought better of what he planned to do.

    Then he picks up the mallet.

  3. Paul on 18.03.2009 at 11:13 Permalink | Reply

    Damn. I had spread bet on how many would die before the govt u-turned (2 civilians & 1 bailiff)

  4. ejh (436 comments.) on 18.03.2009 at 12:15 Permalink | Reply

    Did you buy or sell?

  5. Bailiffs: damn the restraint with with faint praise - Chicken Yoghurt on 21.03.2009 at 19:42

    [...] I noticed, but while I believe in credit where credit’s due, it’s not as if New Labour are [...]

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