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Stirling Park Sheriff
Officers, a Scottish based collection agency
Stirling Park is Scotland's leading leading Revenue Management
and Enforcement Company and recovers more than £110m of debt a year,
much of this for numerous local authorities in the form of council tax.
It's clients include the National Australia Bank Group, many local authority
councils, Turner Macfarlane Green and debt recovery lawyers Yuilll &
Kyle.
However, two of the senior managers at Stirling Park & Co were
found guilty of professional misconduct but were allowed to continue as
sheriff officers following a civil court case heard in private.
The men found guilty of misconduct are Adam Lewis, the managing partner,
and Ian Wylie, his Head of Professional Services. The two officers were
censured and Lewis had a £1,000 fine imposed. Both were ordered
to pay costs, believed to be in the region of £60,000.
They were found to have ordered other sheriff officers in the firm to
wrongly threaten poindings unless fees were met, and to recover money
to which they were not entitled. Other offences included instructing poindings
to proceed, despite unauthorised notices being served and to have unlawfully
discounted fees to a lucrative client, HM Customs and Excise.
The full extent of misconduct, which included illegally adding VAT to
court decrees and recovering it from debtors, may never be known. According
to a report in The Herald newspaper, one source fears it runs into many
tens of thousands of pounds and called on debtors to pursue legal actions
"if they were ripped off". MSP Tommy Sheridan, who pioneered last year's
abolition of poindings, said of the pair: "They should be struck off for
acting unlawfully, despite being officers of the court. Is it any wonder
so many people have so little faith in sheriff officers and their
bully-boy tactics?"
This site has no connection
with, nor is it endorsed or authorised by, Stirling Park LLP (formerly
Stirling Park & Co) or their owners Intrum Justitia. What it
provides is information about Stirling Park & Co that you will
not find on their own website.
Click on the links below for further information:
Scottish
Courts Professional
Misconduct
Law Society of Scotland Society
of Messengers at Arms
Where to find the truth about
Stirling Park Sheriff Officers
Senior management of Stirling Park &
Co were guilty of overcharging debtors, undercutting competitors, threatening
unlawful diligence, and over-recovery of debts.
For the news reports on this go to the search facility of The Herald
newspaper and enter the key words
"Stirling Park"; and the author as "Iain Wilson".
To obtain a copy of the judgement issued against Adam Lewis and Ian Wylie,
Sheriff Officers of Stirling Park & Co, write to:
Sheriff Clerk
Glasgow Sheriff Court
1 Carlton Place
Glasgow
G5 9DA
quoting case reference number B574/01, Ronald McKenzie QC v Adam Lewis
and Ian Wylie.
Alternatively, you can
download the full judgement here. (1.2Mb pdf file)
Download the Sheriff Principal's Public
Notice from issue 13 of the Scots Law Times. (230Kb pdf file)
Details of the £6 million black hole in the accounts of Stirling Park's
owners, Intrum Justitia, were reported
in the Guardian newspaper: "Intrum debtors
may get refunds".
You can read Intrum Justitia's
official press release here. (229Kb pdf file)
Stirling Park don't want you
to see this site
The site originally located
here was removed because solicitors acting for Stirling Park LLP,
namely Dundas & Wilson, wrote to the site's web host claiming that it
contained defamatory material. Despite warning the recipient that legal
action could follow simply for disclosing its terms, a copy of that letter
has been obtained and is published in full
on this site.
The truth is that the
site only contained factual information available to any member of the
public, including newspaper reports, a court judgement and a public notice
which, because of the seriousness of the offences, the judge ordered to
be placed in the legal journal "The Scots Law Times".
Thank you for reading the truth about
Stirling Park Sheriff Officers.
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