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Closed petition Banning of selling debt to third party bailiffs
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companies and public sector organisations now as a matter of first recourse sell debt to third party bailiffs.
This petition would force companies and public sector organisations to ban the sale of debts to third parties.
They would be forced to collect their own debts through their own means or themselves through the civil courts.
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This petition will stay open until 4 August 2012.