You need to know a debtor’s correct address before the court can take some enforcement actions on your behalf.
If the debtor hasn’t provided a correct address, you can try to find the address yourself, or you can request confidential address information from a government agency.
How to find the debtor’s address yourself
To find the debtor’s address yourself, you can:
search public records (such as the Electoral Roll, White Pages or Companies Office Database)
hire a private investigator (this is a cost you cannot claim back from the debtor)
How to make a confidential address request to a government agency
You can make a confidential address request to the following government agencies for no charge.
If an agency finds an address for the debtor, the agency will give this to the court. The court will then send you a letter to let you know the outcome.
Ministry of Justice
You can either:
write on your enforcement application form that you want us to check our records or
You can also write to any other government agency you think might hold the debtor’s address. You can ask them to provide the address under the Official Information Act 1982.