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Diligence Solutions

Members of the Society of Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers anywhere in Scotland to serve documents and Messengers-at-Arms & enforce orders of the Supreme Court. Sheriff Officers based in Edinburgh Sheriff Officers A Sheriff Officer is an officer of the regional Thomas Hannah & Company — civil court. Scotland is divided into six regions called Sheriffdoms , each of which has a Sheriff judicial officers in Scotland Principal who is responsible for the conduct of the courts. Within these Sheriffdoms there is a Thomas Hannah & Co. is a firm of total of forty-nine local Sheriff Court districts. Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers based Unlike a Messenger-at-Arms, a Sheriff Officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. Serving all six Scottish may only operate in the geographical area for Sheriffdoms, we provide legal support services which he holds a commission. Internationally, to clients throughout Scotland, the UK and the generic term Judicial Officers is often used to Europe. If you are looking for an expe rienced, describe individuals who carry out the reliable team providing a service that is not only functions performed in Scotland by professional but personal, too — then we’ll be Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers, as in pleased to hear from you. the International Union of Judicial Officers Our services include (Union internationale des huissiers de justice) .  citation and diligence : the Scottish system of serving court summonses and witness Thomas Hannah & Co. citations, and enforcement of court orders;  pre-litigation reporting ; Established some half a century ago, the firm of Thomas Hannah & Co. is proud to support  service of process originating outwith a wide range of clients throughout Scotland and Scotland; beyond, including prominent solicitor firms,  repossession of heritable property and national and local government revenue motor vehicles; departments, high street banks and finance  tracing and other value added activities. houses. We aim to provide a service that is personal as well as professional, with all matters discussed on a confidential, one-to-one basis. Scottish Officers of Court We are registered with the Information Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers are Commissioner’s Offic e, and we carry full Officers of Court and have a key role in the professional indemnity insurance. administration of justice in Scotland. In particular, they carry out diligence; that is, enforcing the repayment of debts through legal Why instruct us? processes. Diligence processes include arrestment, attachment and inhibition . Introduction Experience and continuity of the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Our decades in business are testament to our Act 2007 modernised and improved the law stability and reliability as a company, and to the relating to diligence and enforcement methods, continuing level of satisfaction with our striking a fair balance between the differing services enjoyed by the many clients we have needs of creditors and debtors. earned and retained in that time. Commitment to quality Messengers-at-Arms We won’t claim to be less expensive than our A Messenger-at-Arms is an officer of the Court competitors, because Sheriff Officers and of Session, which is the supreme civil court in Messengers-at-Arms are prohibited in law from Scotland. Messenger-at-Arms may travel differentiating on the price of our services, which are regulated by Act of Sederunt.  Service of inhibitions (plus initial registration Instead, we choose to distinguish ourselves by of notice of inhibition and subsequent adding value — we make our services more cost registration of service of inhibition if effective for our clients through our three-fold required). promise:  Repossession of heritable property including a repair and maintenance service. 1. To deal with your enquiry or instructions  Repossession of motor vehicles, plant and quickly. machinery and other equipment. 2. To respond to your needs effectively with timely and informative reports. Our officers and staff have accumulated many years of knowledge of the less common forms 3. To apply all of our skills and resources in of diligence and can often identify solutions to helping you determine the best course for problematic cases which may not necessarily be successful recovery. best served by the more standard forms. This is part of our philosophy of added value for the Independence benefit of the client. We believe that we have a duty both to clients and to the public at large to act as impartial Sheriff Court coverage Officers of Court. For that reason, Thomas We cover the following Sheriff Court districts Hannah & Co. remains an independently directly: owned and managed business, with no allegiance to any controlling corporate concern. Airdrie, Ayr, Cumbernauld, Dumbarton, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Glasgow, Legal support services Greenock, Jedburgh, Kilmarnock, Kirkcaldy, Lanark, Livingston, Paisley, Perth, Selkirk. At Thomas Hannah & Co. we pride ourselves on the service we provide to our clients and We are also able to accept instructions for welcome the opportunity to offer advice or Grampian and Highlands & Islands Sheriff discuss any element of the recovery process. Court districts and other courts not listed above. Instructions in those cases, for Services provided geographical reasons, are managed by our approved agent network.  Service of witness citations, summonses and writs throughout Scotland.  Service of English and foreign process Contact details throughout Scotland. Thomas Hannah & Co.  Service of notices for landlords, property 9 Mansfield Place factors and Housing Associations. Edinburgh  Full residential and employment traces on a EH3 6NB no trace/no fee basis.  Pre-litigation reports including credit, Hays DX ED127 insolvency and property ownership details. Tel 0131 556 8601  Enforcement of court decrees and judgments Fax 0131 557 4234 throughout Scotland, by means of Email [email protected] attachment , bank or earnings arrestment or inhibition .  Registration and enforcement in Scotland of judgments from elsewhere in the UK. thomas hannah & Co

Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers

Head office Visit our web site Thomas Hannah & Company 9 Mansfield Place Edinburgh EH3 6NB

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