Services / Enforcement and cross-border work
Enforcement and asset recovery
Winning and still not being paid is commoner than people expect: enforcement is a different exercise from advocacy, and the ten years running from the judgment or order is a hard stop.
SCOPE
What this covers
- Tracing the judgment debtor's assets
- Seizure and attachment through the Legal Execution Department
- Checking the execution window before the right lapses
- Acting for debtors on property exempt from execution
MATTERS
The matters this covers
Each has its own page setting out what the statute requires and what to prepare.
- Tracing a judgment debtor's assets
- Seizure and sale by public auction
- Attachment of wages, bank deposits and receivables
- Third-party claims to seized property
- Applications for rateable distribution
- Objections to the auction price or method
- Applications to stay or withdraw execution
- Enforcing eviction and demolition orders
- Checking the ten-year execution period
LAW
The legislation
- Civil Procedure Code
- Civil and Commercial Code
ENQUIRIES
