Stop Bailiffs: Magistrates' Court Fines
If bailiffs attend about an unpaid court fine you didn't know about, you can stop or suspend the enforcement power.
The law says the conviction and the fine are invalid if the accused did not know of them.
Making a statutory declaration revokes the conviction and the fine, stops the enforcement and you can reclaim any money bailiffs have taken.
The law says the statutory declaration must be sent by Royal Mail registered post (not ordinary post).
DO NOT take a statutory declaration in person, court staff will mess you about.
If you were fined without being means-tested, complete a form MC100 and send it to the sentencing court asking for the enforcement to be suspended.
Pay the fine online and get a receipt. That ends the enforcement power leaving the bailiffs fees unpaid, but if the bailiff is a private company out to make a commercial gain, they might take the law into their own hands and threaten a "locksmith".
Apply to the court to commute the fine to unpaid work. The law says the fines officer may withdraw the warrant and make a "work order" if enforcing payment is impractical or impossible.
