DMBM660620 - Enforcement action: summary proceedings: enforcing magistrates' orders: England and Wales

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This section of the manual is about enforcing magistrates' orders.

A magistrates' order may be enforced by

• distress warrant, or
• judgment summons (but not against a limited company).

Distress warrants

You should use a distress warrant in preference to a judgment summons to enforce the magistrates' order. A distress warrant gives a bailiff the power to levy and remove a person’s goods sufficient to settle the amount of the order and associated costs, including the bailiff’s costs.

Judgment summons

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Insolvency proceedings

This section also includes consideration of insolvency proceedings against debtors when you have exhausted the enforcement options available to you.