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- A garnishee order is a common form of enforcing a judgment debt against a creditor to recover money. Put simply, the court directs a third party that owes money to the judgement debtor to instead pay the judgment creditor. The third party is called a 'garnishee'
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A Garnish Order is an order made by a Magistrate's Court ("court"), whereby the creditor attaches a portion of a debt owed to the debtor by a third party ("garnishee"). The garnishee will deduct part of the debt or pay all of the debt, due to the debtor, directly to the creditor.
Based on the escalating number of irregular emolument attachment orders issued to consumers, we literally assess and investigate all the Garnishee orders/Emolument attachment orders in the workplace by involving the Payroll office to send us all active Garnishee orders to check their validity.
the process
This process will include adjudication when a garnishee order is confirmed that it's being implemented without meeting all the requirements set out by the legislation e.g Magistrate Court Rules/ High Court Rules.. These files are then handled by our legal team in their capacities as attorneys and advocates. All garnishee orders active will be challenged in a court of law to confirm it validity accompanied with an application for rescission of such irregular orders.
This will include looking at issues of charging interest unlawfully and collecting on prescribed debts....READ MORE ON DOWLOADS