Solicitors who allege that their clients are suffering ‘aggressive enforcement’ by the Legal Services Commission’s debt collectors should refer to section 40 of the Administration of Justice Act 1970. A person commits an offence if, with the object of coercing another person to pay money claimed, they harass him with demands for payment which, by their frequency or the manner or occasion of their making and so forth, are calculated to alarm, distress or humiliate. There are a number of associated offences.

A person or body may be guilty of an offence if they ‘concert’ with taking such action, notwithstanding that its own course of conduct does not, by itself, amount to harassment.

Henry Brookman, Brookman Solicitors, London WC1