'Bully Boy' Bailiff Tactics
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Town Hall 'Bully Boy' Bailiff Tactics Revealed

Town halls have been accused of using "bully boy" debt collection tactics, as it emerged bailiffs are used to recover unpaid council taxes and parking fines in more than two million cases a year.

The figures, released to campaign group Big Brother Watch under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that almost 5,500 cases a day are passed to debt recovery agencies by councils in England, Scotland and Wales.
Two Scottish councils topped the list of most frequent bailiff users, with both the City of Edinburgh and Glasgow City Council calling in debt recovery teams more than 280,000 times between......Read More Here