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If a HIGH COURT ENFORCEMENT OFFICER charged you "costs", you do not have to pay them unless they have been allowed by a High Court Master.

If a High Court Enforcement Officer Claims from you any miscellaneous costs under rule 12 of Schedule 3 of the High Court Enforcement Officers Regulations 2004, the law requires him to make an application to a Judge or High Court Master for them to be allowed.


If no such Order exists and the High Court Enforcement Officer tries to obtain money from you then he commits an offence under Section 40(1)(d) of the Administration of Justice Act 1970 because he is falsely representing to have costs order or other document to have some official capacity when he knows it is not.

Unless there is a cost order showing the amount of costs you must pay there is no legislation obligating you to pay them.

If a creditor unilaterally transfers your Judgment debt up to the High Court without your knowledge then he enters into a contract with a firm doing the transfer and any fees raised from that contract are the creditor's responsibility until he applies for a costs order against you to pay them.

Without a costs order an HCEO can only lawfully collect the judgment amount plus the statutory fee.

If you have a costs order made against you then you can ask to see it and you have a right to ask for it to be set aside.

Confirmed by HM Government in the House of Lords on 03 November 2009 and Bernard Loynes v Beswicks Solicitors [2010] Queens Bench Division. There is lots more case law confirming unregulated fees must be repaid and you have a right to sue the creditor for the HCEO's malfeasance, Preston v Peeke [1895] EB&E 336.