Struggling energy customers facing ‘wild west’ system of warrants to force entry into home An investigation by theipaper has revealed how magistrates are batch-processing hundreds of warrants in just minutes without question 🔴 deankirby_
to allow debt agents acting on behalf of suppliers to force entry into homes to fit controversial prepayment meters.
The admission has raised further doubts about the level of oversight for warrants being issued by courts to energy firms to force entry into properties. It has also prompted accusations of a legal “wild west” leaving some of the UK’s poorest families at risk of having no gas or electricity this Christmas.
“Ministers have serious questions to answer. What specific reasoning is behind each of these forced-entry warrants, why they’re being rushed through at breakneck speed without proper verification and how on earth they have been allowed to happen in the first place? “The Government needs to very quickly get a grip of this legal wild west, which is spiralling out of control while companies are continuing to force the poorest people in society onto these more expensive meters.”the process has gone “beyond rubber stamping” as thousands of warrants are “nodded through” each week in “huge batches” of up to 700 at a time.
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