The WLR Daily case summaries
[2025] WLR(D) 19
Chancery Division
Seculink Ltd v Forbes
[2024] EWHC 3339 (Ch)
2024 Oct 17, 18; Dec 20
Sir Anthony Mann sitting as a High Court judge
Debt— Enforcement— Moratorium— Creditor commencing debt enforcement proceedings— Debtor obtaining mental health crisis moratorium— Creditor challenging status of debt as “moratorium debt”— Court finding no jurisdiction to determine matter where statutory challenge to debt status not made— Court requiring claimant to obtain permission to pursue enforcement application— Whether statutory mechanism exclusive route to challenge status of debt— Whether court’s permission required to pursue enforcement application to judgment—
Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space Moratorium and Mental Health Crisis Moratorium) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020
(SI 2020/1311), regs 6, 7(2)(b)(7)(a), 10(3), 17, 19