{"id":25593,"date":"2023-02-04T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/02\/04\/courts-waved-through-warrants-for-prepayment-meter-fitting\/"},"modified":"2023-02-04T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:27:35","slug":"courts-waved-through-warrants-for-prepayment-meter-fitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=25593","title":{"rendered":"Courts waved through warrants for prepayment meter fitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In an internal FAQ post for magistrates, Mr Webster told magistrates the &#8220;advice given to justices has not kept up with changes in the way utility companies operate&#8221;. As the remedy sought by energy companies for unpaid bills is no longer disconnection, but installation of a prepayment meter, &#8220;checks magistrates have been asked to make are now disproportionate and go far beyond the legal requirements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-64524156?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In an internal FAQ post for magistrates, Mr Webster told magistrates the &#8220;advice given to justices has not kept up with changes in the way utility companies operate&#8221;. As &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}