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Small Claims is effective, but if you win - and you probably will - there's no guarantee that a company the size of Facebook will care. This has been a common p

Small Claims is effective, but if you win - and you probably will - there's no guarantee that a company the size of Facebook will care. This has been a common problem for people suing airlines which ignore legal obligations to pay out under compensation law. So you'll have to go to court again for an enforcement order. If you get one of those you can send bailiffs in to take stuff and sell it on your behalf. But it's starting to get expensive at this point. Although it will probably get FB's attention, especially if someone from the press just happens to be there to take photos when the bailiffs go in.

teh_klev 4y ago
> But it's starting to get expensive at this point I don't believe this is the case in the UK. By this point the costs are being run up against the defendant and they have to pay the bailiff fees: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your-creditor-can-take/bailiffs/how-bailiffs-should-treat-you/check-bailiffs-fees/ https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your...
- bennyelv 4y ago
  Correct - if you're enforcing a judgment in the UK, the cost of doing so gets paid by the defendant. The bailiffs will handle this themselves by seizing enough to cover the judgment amounts and their own costs. Once you have an order to enforce the judgement your bailiffs can walk into the Facebook's London office and start removing property and nobody will be able to stop them.
  - teh_klev 4y ago
    I thought this was the case. An unhappy customer of Wizz Air did this recently which is why this was in the back of my mind: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-gets-4500-wizz-air-26510371 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-gets-4500-wiz... My favourite part of this article: "He then applied for bailiffs who attended the Wizz Air desk at Luton Airport - saying they could take goods including chairs, tables, computers or an even aircraft."
    - louthy 4y ago
      > even aircraft Brilliant, I'd love to see that enacted!
bombcar 4y ago
It's worth going in, if you're going in out of spite: > On June 3, Nyerges, two sheriff's deputies and a moving truck showed up at the local BofA branch. The deputies informed the manager that he could either pay the Nyerges' legal fees— $2,500—or the movers would start taking away the bank's furniture and cash. The manager, after conferring with his superiors, gave the deputies a check. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclosed-angry-homeowner-bofa/story?id=13775638 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...

teh_klev 4y ago

> But it's starting to get expensive at this point I don't believe this is the case in the UK. By this point the costs are being run up against the defendant and they have to pay the bailiff fees: https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your-creditor-can-take/bailiffs/how-bailiffs-should-treat-you/check-bailiffs-fees/ https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/debt-and-money/action-your...

bennyelv 4y ago
Correct - if you're enforcing a judgment in the UK, the cost of doing so gets paid by the defendant. The bailiffs will handle this themselves by seizing enough to cover the judgment amounts and their own costs. Once you have an order to enforce the judgement your bailiffs can walk into the Facebook's London office and start removing property and nobody will be able to stop them.
- teh_klev 4y ago
  I thought this was the case. An unhappy customer of Wizz Air did this recently which is why this was in the back of my mind: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-gets-4500-wizz-air-26510371 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/dad-gets-4500-wiz... My favourite part of this article: "He then applied for bailiffs who attended the Wizz Air desk at Luton Airport - saying they could take goods including chairs, tables, computers or an even aircraft."
  - louthy 4y ago
    > even aircraft Brilliant, I'd love to see that enacted!

bombcar 4y ago

It's worth going in, if you're going in out of spite: > On June 3, Nyerges, two sheriff's deputies and a moving truck showed up at the local BofA branch. The deputies informed the manager that he could either pay the Nyerges' legal fees— $2,500—or the movers would start taking away the bank's furniture and cash. The manager, after conferring with his superiors, gave the deputies a check. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclosed-angry-homeowner-bofa/story?id=13775638 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclo...