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Since the early 1990's I have spent most of my professional life fighting for recognition of High Court enforcement, and offering some common sense to the debate on whether or not High Court judgments should be registered. 11 years ago many of us involved in that debate were lone voices on the need for better enforcement. Dialogue with Government on the issue of enforcement was sparse and ill-informed. But how times have changed. Nowadays Government are informed and looking for ideas.

Take the whole issue of whether High Court Judgments could be registered or not. It seemed a no-brainer - why should a debtor in the High Court escape the consequences of having a judgment registered, when a debtor in the county court had its judgment data published to a credit reference agency.

Without any fanfare, the registration of High Court judgments is to become a reality -a little late - and at a time when judgments in the High Court are tiny in comparison to the volume of business in the County Court. I do need to highlight the figures - pre-Woolf, 8,979 judgments where registered in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court whilst in 2004 only 750 judgments were registered. Still we are now on the brink of having High Court judgments finally registered.

The enforcement of CSA liability orders is also in the news. Now isn't this an area of enforcement which is crying out for some real innovation? Specialist training to understand the competing needs of parents, and the paramount need to protect the children means the enforcement of these types of order can't simply be hived off to a debt collection agency.

Enforcing judgments in such sensitive circumstances needs a radical approach and collecting money by telephone without specialist training isn't enough. Parents must of course take responsibility for their children but Government must help to ensure enforcement methods are appropriate to the type of enforcement. We can of course look to other countries for inspiration such as Australia where the Australian CSA can withhold wages, intercept tax refunds and target rental income and investment dividends.

And I have to say I do like the new Operation Payback plan to collect more fines -a scheme which shows Government is thinking outside of the square. Texting debtors, and putting messages on beer mats to underline the need to pay the Court's fine is to be applauded.

Instead of sending for a credit report when credit is refused, the CreditExpert system, reminds the subscriber of a change in the data file. The Experian service is paid for as an up front fee which offers peace of mind, and an insight into how a credit file is being accessed by the world at large.

Of course there will always be people who won't pay -that's a given. What is encouraging is that 11 years on from when I started debating these issues, the opportunities to redesign and re-invent enforcement are coming from Government on a number of different levels. As enforcement officers it is our opportunity to take these messages and develop them into successful campaigns which underpin the role of the Court in our society and create confidence in the enforcement system of whatever type of judgment needs to be enforced.