Civil Enforcement in a Comparative Perspective: A Public Management Challenge

Bailiffs play an important role in the enforcement of court orders. They are part of the state machinery for the transfer of assets from debtors to creditors and for evictions. This book investigates the surprising differences in bailiff regulation across Europe and questions how far governments take adequate responsibility for enforcement action.

Dr Wendy Kennett is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. She was the Founding Chair of the Bailiff Law Reform Group (BLRG), now the Enforcement Law Review Group - a cross-industry, non-policy making discussion forum (now chaired by Lord Lucas), with the Civil Court Users Association (CCUA) as Secretariat. She is a Member of the International Association of Procedural Law and of the CIVEA Compliance, Adjudication and Review of Enforcement (CARE) Panel. She is a former EU Commission expert on enforcement and has participated in a number of EU funded projects on comparative and cross-border enforcement.