Free decision-support tools

Check the likely route before you instruct

Four free UK Bailiffs tools to help landlords, solicitors and managing agents assess an excluded occupier, test CRAR eligibility, screen commercial lease forfeiture and estimate statutory enforcement fees. Save an initial assessment for your records.

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Useful screening, not automatic authority

The result is an initial aid. It cannot replace checking the lease, order, occupation, notice, evidence, insolvency position or any review and appeal rights that apply to the case.

Stop if the facts are disputed. Do not change locks, remove an occupier or take control of goods simply because a tool returns a potentially available route.

Excluded occupier route check

Tests common indicators of an excluded licence or other limited-protection arrangement. Status turns on the real facts, not the label used in an agreement.

Have the agreement, placement documents and notice history to hand.

Important: unlawful eviction and harassment can be criminal offences. For temporary housing, an end-of-duty or end-of-placement letter is evidence only; the agreement, statutory basis, actual occupation, notice, service, expiry and any review or appeal rights still need checking. Never use force or forced entry.

CRAR eligibility checker

Checks the principal conditions for Commercial Rent Arrears Recovery in England and Wales. CRAR is limited to qualifying rent under a written commercial lease.

Use the net unpaid rent figure. Service charge, insurance and other liabilities do not become rent merely because the lease describes them that way.

For instructions received on or after 1 May 2026, the minimum Notice of Enforcement period is generally 14 clear days, subject to the statutory calculation and any permitted court-ordered reduction. Eligibility and timing are confirmed during instruction review.

Commercial lease forfeiture checker

Tests whether a contractual right to forfeit may have arisen and flags waiver, insolvency, occupation and notice issues before peaceable re-entry is considered.

Have the signed lease, rent ledger, breach evidence and all recent landlord–tenant communications ready.

A right to forfeit can be waived by conduct recognising the lease after knowledge of the breach. Non-rent breaches normally require a valid section 146 notice, and some breaches carry additional statutory restrictions. Peaceable re-entry is not appropriate where lawful, safe entry cannot be achieved.

Statutory enforcement fee calculator

Estimates the standard non-High Court fees under the Taking Control of Goods fee scale. Select the date the case was received because the statutory scale changed on 1 May 2026.

This calculator shows the statutory fee stages, not a quote or the amount necessarily payable in a particular case. Disbursements, exceptional costs, VAT treatment and other lawful charges are excluded. The current non-High Court scale is £79 compliance, £247 enforcement and £116 sale/disposal, with 7.5% applied at both latter stages to the part of the sum exceeding £1,900. The previous scale is retained for historic calculations only. The percentage fee is rounded up to a whole pound at each applicable stage under regulation 7(c). Confirm transitional and case-specific treatment.

Next step

Read the service requirements

Use the detailed service page before sending documents or asking for attendance.

Send the documents. We will identify what can lawfully happen next.

Tell us what has happened, what authority you hold and the outcome required. Submitting an enquiry does not confirm acceptance or mean enforcement has begun.

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England and Wales. General information only; not legal advice.