Unaccountability in Scotland
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Water Charges - Emails with Debt Collector - Brodies

This is just for the record.

It demonstrates that Scottish Water Business Stream appear to leave their debt collectors in ignorance of the facts. It further demonstrates that certain [in fact most] debt collectors do NOT validate that a debt is due before wasting their time, that of the person or organisation being pursued, and finally of the courts.

Reference should be made to the Sheriff Principal Mhairi M Stephen QC's Note No 9 in the Chataroo case which reads "As a preface to his submissions the Dean of Faculty pointed out that this was but one of a not insignificant number of debt recovery cases raised by the pursuers in this court."

Scottish Water Business Steam LOST.

Email to Brodies Debt Collectors dated 22 January 2018 at 13:29

For the personal attention of xxxx xxxx

Sirs

It has recently come to our attention that you may be acting in a manner which might be deemed by some as not being "Honest, Open, and Accountable".

In order to verify this possibly erroneous statement, we would ask you to consider answering the following question, which originates from a law abiding citizen of Scotland who would pay all the legitimate and valid demands for payment.

Please provide, from Scottish Water, or other source [the 2005 Act, or other legislation, or valid Legal Opinion - with name of Counsel, or report of a court case [thus NOT from the SPSO]], the reason, valid in law, and thus supportable in the Sheriff's court, that Premises which have neither a direct connection to a Scottish Water water pipe, nor a direct connection to a Scottish Water Sewer whether it be Foul, Storm, or Combined should be treated as an Eligible Premises.

There are three possible response scenarios:

  • No response within seven days,
  • A response providing the information requested,
  • A response which does not answer the request.

As your name was given on the offending emails, we would ask that you reply directly to me.

This is the email chain: some words have been changed to hide personal identities. The originals are held in PDF format for Audit purposes.