Description
Court enforcement officers enforce orders of court judgements such as managing the recovery of money owed, seizing of goods, and selling goods in public auctions to obtain the money owed. They also send summons and arrest warrants to ensure attendance in court or other judicial procedures.
Other titles
The following job titles also refer to court enforcement officer:
court bailiff
her majesty’s court bailiff
tribunals officer
warrant server
court administrator
debt collector
jury bailiff
court adminstrative officer
court usher
bailiff
enforcement agent
ISCO skill level
ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:
- the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
- the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
- the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.
Court enforcement officer is a Skill level 3 occupation.
Court enforcement officer career path
Similar occupations
These occupations, although different, require a lot of knowledge and skills similar to court enforcement officer.
court clerk
case administrator
legal administrative assistant
legal assistant
consumer rights advisor
Long term prospects
These occupations require some skills and knowledge of court enforcement officer. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of court enforcement officer with a significant experience and/or extensive training.
prosecutor
supreme court judge
justice of the peace
legal consultant
judge
Essential knowledge and skills
Essential knowledge
This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of court enforcement officer.
- Debt collection techniques: The techniques and principles used to collect overdue debt from customers.
- Legal research: The methods and procedures of research in legal matters, such as the regulations, and different approaches to analyses and source gathering, and the knowledge on how to adapt the research methodology to a specific case to obtain the required information.
- Civil law: The legal rules and their applications used in disputes between different parties.
- Public auction procedures: The regulations involved in the repossession and consequent selling of goods in public auctions in order to obtain the amount owed by an individual as ruled by a court of law.
- Legal terminology: The special terms and phrases used in the field of law.
- Repossession: The procedures and legislation dealing with the confiscation of goods or property when a debt cannot be repaid.
Essential skills and competences
These skills are necessary for the role of court enforcement officer.
Send summons: Send summons for court hearings or other legal proceedings such as negotiations and investigative procedures to the parties involved, ensuring that they receive the summons and are fully informed of the procedures.
- Compile legal documents: Compile and collect legal documents from a specific case in order to aid an investigation or for a court hearing, in a manner compliant with legal regulations and ensuring records are properly maintained.
- Ensure sentence execution: Ensure, by contacting the parties involved and monitoring and handling progress and follow-up documentation, that legal sentences are followed as they were issued, such as ensuring that fines are paid, goods are confiscated or returned, and offenders are detained in the appropriate facility.
- Collect damages: Collect money which is owed by one party to another or to the government as compensation, as ruled by a court of law.
- Select items for auction: Research and select products to be auctioned.
- Repossess goods: Reclaim or claim possession of goods in order to compensate for a debt which a debtor is unable to repay, such as a financial debt or money owed as ruled by a court of law.
Optional knowledge and skills
Optional knowledge
This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of court enforcement officer. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Insolvency law: The legal rules regulating the incapacity to pay debts when they fall due.
- Court procedures: The regulations which are in place during the investigation of a court case and during a court hearing, and of how these events occur.
- Civil process order: The legal procedures and standards that courts follow in civil lawsuits.
Optional skills and competences
These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of court enforcement officer. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
- Apply conflict management: Take ownership of the handling of all complaints and disputes showing empathy and understanding to achieve resolution. To be fully aware of all Social Responsibility protocols and procedures, and to be able to deal with a problem gambling situation in a professional manner with maturity and empathy.
- Show responsibility: Accept responsibility and be accountable for professional decisions of yourself or others as part of a job or one’s role.
- Inform of court sentence: Inform the involved parties as to what the official sentence is in a legal or court case, using the legal regulations and documents, to ensure that all parties are informed of the sentence.
- Keep task records: Organise and classify records of prepared reports and correspondence related to the performed work and progress records of tasks.
- Show confidence: Demonstrate degrees of maturity by fully understanding one’s own qualities and abilities which can serve as sources of confidence in different situations.
- Show empathy: Show empathy in order to prevent any kind of symbolic violence and isolation and to guarantee a considerate attention to everyone. It should include a capacity to understand various verbal and non-verbal communication of sentiment and feeling.
- Respond to enquiries: Respond to enquiries and requests for information from other organisations and members of the public.
- Authenticate documents: Authenticate official documents, ensuring that their composition and the manner in which they were signed and officiated is compliant with regulations, and thus establishing the document’s authenticity and legal power.
- Observe confidentiality: Observe the set of rules establishing the nondisclosure of information except to another authorised person.
- Advise on conflict management: Advise private or public organisations on monitoring possible conflict risk and development, and on conflict resolution methods specific to the identified conflicts.
- Manage inventory: Control product inventory in balance of availability and storage costs.
- Provide legal advice: Provide advice to clients in order to ensure that their actions are compliant with the law, as well as most beneficial for their situation and specific case, such as providing information, documentation, or advice on the course of action for a client should they want to take legal action or legal action is taken against them.
- Ensure law application: Ensure the laws are followed, and where they are broken, that the correct measures are taken to ensure compliance to the law and law enforcement.
- Practice vigilance: Practice vigilance during patrol or other surveillance activities in order to ensure safety and security, to look out for suspicious behaviour or other alarming changes in patterns or activities, and to respond quickly to these changes.
ISCO group and title
3411 – Legal and related associate professionals
References
- Court enforcement officer – ESCO