Enforce a judgment or order for money

To instruct us to recover a County Court judgment or High Court order for £600 and over and not older than six years, simply complete the online form below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF.

Completing your instruction

This form has a number of pages which all need completing before you can submit your instruction. Please do not navigate away from this form until you have pressed “SUBMIT” on the final page (“Authorisation”).

If you do navigate away before you submit the form, we will not receive your instruction.

You can check that we have received it safely, because we will send you an email to acknowledge receipt. Please check your spam folder if is not in your inbox.

Reverse judgments

If your judgment is in respect of a reverse judgment, that is that the debtor is now the one owed the amount due under the judgment, do not use this online instruction. Please email client@thesheriffsoffice.com.

Full name
Are you an existing client? 
Are you instructing as a solicitor/barrister or directly as the claimant? 
Do you have access to in-house legal advice? 
Address of the instructing party
Is the claimant an individual or a business? 
Is the claimant VAT registered? 

Exactly as shown on the judgment (this is person who is owed money)

Are the address details the same to the address given on the previous page?
Claimant address
Details

Please take care to ensure the information you add here matches that on your Judgment. If your Judgment is over 6 years old, please call Client Services on 0333 001 5100.

Judgment type

CCJ only - see label 1

CCJ only - see label 2

CCJ only - see label 2

CCJ only - see label 4

CCJ only - see label 5. Please do not add a thousand separator, only numbers. E.g. £10,000.00 should be entered as 10000.00

CCJ only - see label 6. Please do not add a thousand separator, only numbers. E.g. £10,000.00 should be entered as 10000.00

Have you received any payment?  

Please do not add a thousand separator, only numbers. E.g. £10,000.00 should be entered as 10000.00

Was your judgment obtained by default?
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The Defendant (also known as the debtor) is the person or persons the Judgment is against. Please make sure you DO NOT add your own details in this section. If you have any questions then please contact us (during office hours) on 0333 001 5100.

Defendant

Exactly as shown on the judgment

Enforcement address type
Defendant(s) address for enforcement
Do you authorise us to enforce at this address?

If different to name shown on the award/settlement.

Registered address (if applicable)
Is there an alternative enforcement address?
Defendant(s) address (alternative)
Do you authorise us to enforce at this address?
Which address should we attend first?

Vehicle registration details

If applicable to this claim, please enter the vehicle registration details of up to two vehicles owned by the defendant. Please do not enter any spaces.
Are there any details of the debtor on the internet?
Are you aware of any recent changes in the debtor’s circumstances?
Do you have details of any other assets owned by the debtor?

e.g Place of work, has family, other assets not mentioned etc.

Remittance bank details

Please provide details of the bank account into which any monies we recover through enforcement, should we be successful, are to be paid:

Do not add hyphens or spaces

Do not add spaces

By providing us with the bank account details above, you are authorising us to store this information on our case management system and pay any recovered funds into this account.

Claimants in person

Claimants in person have two fees to pay at the time of instruction. When enforcement of the judgment is successful, these fees are recovered from the defendant and refunded to you.

Court fee to transfer up to the High Court - £80

Compliance fee - £90 (£75 + VAT)

Fee payable - £170

Solicitors and approved customers

Solicitors and approved customers pay the £80 court fee at the time of instruction, or on agreed credit terms, and undertake to pay the £75 + VAT compliance fee on receipt of invoice in the event that enforcement is not successful.

Fee payable - £80

Please indicate how you would like to pay: 

Invoice details

If paying by invoice, please provide details of the person to whom the invoice is to be sent.

Address

Legal notice

Read our Terms and Conditions.

By submitting this form you hereby agree you have the authority to act on behalf the instructing party.

I hereby authorise The Sheriffs Office to obtain a writ of control in the name of an authorised High Court Enforcement Officer within The Sheriffs Office for the purposes of enforcement. 
I confirm the debt is not regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (unless over £25,000 and agreed before 1st April 2008) 
I confirm that I have read and agree to the terms and conditions and that to the best of my knowledge the contents of the form are true 
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