The Weekly Law Reports
[2022] 1 WLR 5121
Queen’s Bench Division
*Lees v Kaye and another
[2022] EWHC 1151 (QB)
2022 March 30; May 13
Judge Dight sitting as a High Court judge
Debt— Enforcement— Moratorium— Mental health crisis moratorium initiated in respect of debtor— Creditor enforcing judgment debt by taking possession of debtor’s flat and selling lease— Whether moratorium properly registered and effective at relevant time— Whether judgment debt consisting of liability to pay damages in respect of “personal injury” so as to constitute non-eligible debt— Whether judgment debt exempt from effect of moratorium as being subject of charging order made before start of moratorium—
Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1311), regs 5(4)(i), 7, 31, 35