Today I was contacted by a firm of attorneys who told me that they had been trying to speak to me for two months but had been fobbed of by my receptionist. It appears that a garnishee order was served on her in September 2013. On my request the legal firm has furnished me with copies of the garnishee order which states that the order was served on me and that all the details were explained to me. This is untrue and I have no knowledge of the matter whatsoever. They are demanding that I pay them all the outstanding amounts within 10 days or they will proceed with a warrant of execution against my business. They do not have a signed copy of the order and claim that it is not necessary to obtain a signature when serving an order. This does not sound right to me - if the messenger states that he has spoken to me then he is a liar and the the whole process must surely be fraudulent.

I have no problem paying over the money and deducting it from the employees salary, but I do not like being threatened with legal action about something I have no Knowledge of and is based on the fraudulent action of a messenger of the court. (The employee has admitted that she does owe the money and has been giving them the runaround to avoid me deducting money from her).

Can anyone offer any advice? Vanash perhaps?