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Shergroup is a commissioned live series on Channel 5, built around our regulated High Court Enforcement Officers.

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Call The Bailiffs: Time To Pay Up

Our High Court Enforcement Officers recover debt across England and Wales — the same regulated team you can instruct.

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Enforcement at the sharp end — putting our work in front of businesses, landlords and the public.

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Shergroup on the Sofa — Latest Episode

Shergroup on the Sofa

Claire Sandbrook in conversation with senior voices in credit, insolvency, investigation and business — all streaming on Shergroup TV.

Bertrand Mazuir
Bertrand Mazuir

Co-founder, My DSO Manager — innovation in credit management, from a platform used in 87 countries.

Nick Hood
Nick Hood

Senior Adviser, Opus Business Advisory Group — six decades in insolvency and the BBC’s go-to expert on business rescue.

Karen Ainley

Founder, Mosaic — 35 years in marketing, and the case for conscience, purpose and the 5Cs.

Bob Hayward

Managing Partner, Be More Effective — leadership, coaching and the real cost of “good enough” management.

Landmark Operations

Nearly three decades of enforcement in the most difficult, most public circumstances — from national road protests to the clearance of the London Olympic site. A selection; the full timeline runs 1994 to 2022.

  1. Hand-painted protest banners and tents beneath a tree at the M11 Link Road camp

    1994

    M11 Link Road

    Writ of possession enforced against the high-profile road protest — for the Highways Agency.

  2. Enforcement team on site at the Olympic Village in Stratford

    2008

    Olympic Village, Stratford

    Compulsory Purchase Order enforced to clear the site for the 2012 Games — for the Olympic Development Agency.

  3. Officers in high-visibility jackets outside St Paul's Cathedral during the Occupy encampment

    2002

    St Paul's Cathedral

    Writ of possession enforced at the Occupy encampment — for the Corporation of the City of London.

  4. Crowd gathered at the entrance to the Cuadrilla fracking site in Balcombe

    2013

    Cuadrilla fracking site, Balcombe

    Writ of possession enforced at the anti-fracking protest — for West Sussex County Council.

  5. Officers on site during the Dale Farm clearance operation

    2014

    Dale Farm

    One of the largest clearance operations of its kind — for Basildon Borough Council.

  6. Crowd outside a lit SOAS building at night during the eviction

    2002

    SOAS, University of London

    Common-law eviction at the School of Oriental and African Studies — the most recent entry on the timeline.

See the full enforcement timeline (1994–2022)

On the record since 2005

In the News

For two decades the national, trade and broadcast press have quoted, cited and filmed Shergroup on court judgments, possession, credit, security and how British businesses get paid. Today that work reaches its widest audience through Call The Bailiffs.

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Comment by Claire Sandbrook, 2011

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Channel 5 · Made with Middlechild · 2022 to today

Call The Bailiffs: Time To Pay Up puts Shergroup's enforcement work on national television

Made by Middlechild in collaboration with Shergroup, the Channel 5 series follows our High Court Enforcement Officers on real cases across England and Wales. It shows viewers what High Court enforcement is, how it works and why it matters, more clearly than anything else on the subject. Seasons 1 to 3 are available to watch now, and Series 4 has been filmed.

About the series → See it on Middlechild's programme list →

From the record: cited, quoted and broadcast

35%

of County Court judgments still entirely unpaid a year after judgment

Broadcast

BBC Radio 5 Live & BBC Radio 4 Today · January 2011

Shergroup goes on BBC radio to call for an overhaul of civil justice

Claire Sandbrook on 5 Live Breakfast, and our policy adviser on the Today programme, on judgments that never get paid.

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33to 196days

from possession order to eviction, best case to worst, in our 2021 tracking

Data · Shergroup research

Claire Sandbrook's column, Property118 · May 2021

Transfer of possession orders: how long landlords really wait

We tracked possession orders transferred up to the High Court and named the court registries holding landlords up. The column is one of six Claire wrote for the landlord site in 2021.

Read the column →

>50%

fall in Warrants of Execution in two years, per Ministry of Justice figures

Industry comment

Comment on HMCS statistics · June 2011

Creditors write off judgments as court enforcement falls away

Shergroup backs a shake-up of court processes after official figures showed creditors giving up on the County Court.

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Operations

Instructed by Islington Council · June 2012

Shergroup behind London’s latest eviction of Occupy protesters

After St Paul’s Cathedral, Parliament Square and Leyton Marsh, our enforcement and security officers cleared Finsbury Square, supported by the Metropolitan Police.

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The Guardian

Comment is free · by Claire Sandbrook

National press · Comment

The Guardian · 4 July 2011

Criminalising squatting will merely make the problem worse

As the Government moved to make squatting a crime, Claire argued in the Guardian for a simpler eviction system rather than a tougher one.

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Innovative Solution of the Year

Institute of Credit Management Awards

Recognition

Institute of Credit Management · February 2009

SHERPA wins a top credit industry award

Our online case-management system won for letting clients follow writ enforcement in real time. Shergroup was also shortlisted in the 2010 Credit Today Awards, for Best Use of Technology and for Corporate Social Responsibility.

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