Inside the courtroom where it takes minutes to force hundreds of people onto prepayment meters 🔴 It took magistrates just 3 minutes to issue 496 warrants to allow energy firms to force entry and install prepayment meters
It took less time than it takes to make a cup of tea for magistrates to approve 496 warrants allowing debt agents to force entry into houses, flats and business premises on behalf of some of the UK’s biggest energy suppliers.
In the yellow-brick-walled Court 8 at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court, the distant voice of Sarah, from a debt recovery agency, emerged from the speaker phone on the clerk’s desk.It had taken weeks of ringing around court buildings across North England to find one of these hearings and to sit in the empty public benches as officials, uncertain of the warrants process, passed“We don’t do them anymore,” one had said. “I think they’re done over the phone,” said another.
Even here, black-robed ushers dealing with the daily churn of assaults and car thefts appeared unaware the utility warrant cases would be heard in court until moments before they actually took place. “Court 8 is a trial court,” one said. “There are no utility warrants in there.”had obtained from the Ministry of Justice using the Freedom of Information Act had revealed that Wigan magistrates have been quietly granting around 2,000 of these warrants each month.
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