Morley & File: Now Registered as Morleyfile Ltd

Who are Morley & File?

The company is registered at Companies House under number 15602092, incorporated on 29 March 2024. It was named Morley &. File Debt Solutions Ltd from incorporation until 1 April 2025, when the register was updated to its current name, Morleyfile Ltd. Both the firm's own site and the HCEOA directory still trade under "Morley & File," so a debtor's paperwork issued before April 2025 may carry either version and a search under either name should reach the same company. The registered office is 23-25 Lower Street, Stansted, CM24 8LN. Its directors are Nicholas Morley and Nicola Ann File.

The HCEOA member directory lists the business under Claire Sandbrook of Shergroup Limited, at an address in Doncaster, with a Stansted-area phone number matching the firm's own site, again a registered-office-versus-operational-contact split rather than anything to be concerned about. Morley & File's own site (checked 22 Aug 2026) goes further than the usual officer-of-record arrangement and states plainly that its High Court enforcement work is carried out under licence from Claire Sandbrook of Shergroup Limited, which is a more explicit statement of the relationship than most firms sharing a certificated High Court Enforcement Officer publish about themselves.

A new company, not necessarily a new team

Morley & File's own marketing claims over 25 years of experience, which cannot describe the company itself, incorporated only in March 2024. Nicholas Morley is separately described elsewhere as an enforcement agent, so the claimed track record most likely reflects the personal careers of the people running the business rather than the corporate entity's own history; treat that distinction as unverified beyond what is stated here, since the company's own filed history covers barely two years.

Where Morleyfile sits on the registers

Checked directly in August 2026, Morleyfile Ltd does not appear on the Enforcement Conduct Board's accredited firms register or CIVEA's published member list. It is listed with the HCEOA through its licensed High Court Enforcement Officer arrangement, which is the register presence relevant here.

What Morley & File is instructed to do

Its own site lists High Court enforcement, business debt collection, credit control, letter-driven recovery, debt negotiation, a tracing service and, distinctly, residential possession. That last item matters: recovering possession of a residential tenancy follows entirely different law from enforcing a money judgment, uses different notices, and carries none of the fee scale described below. If your paperwork concerns possession of a home rather than a debt, this page's guidance on fees and exempt goods does not apply and separate possession-specific advice is needed.

The High Court enforcement fee scale

Where a County Court judgment of £600 or more is transferred up under article 8 of the High Court and County Courts Jurisdiction Order 1991, it becomes a writ of control, enforced under Schedule 12 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, at fixed regulated rates for instructions from 1 May 2026:

• Nothing beyond the debt until compliance, £79, when notice is sent and no visit has happened.
• £200 once an agent visits and begins taking control of goods, with 7.5% added on any sum recovered above £1,200.
• £520 for a second enforcement stage, only where its own separate conditions are met.
• £550, plus the same 7.5%, if goods are removed and sold.

Older writs may still run on the previous scale. Under regulation 11 of the Taking Control of Goods (Fees) Regulations 2014, holding several writs allows the £79 charge per writ but limits the later-stage charges to one occurrence across the group, where they can reasonably be dealt with together.

Can Morley & File force entry?

Not into a home on a first visit under a writ of control: entry has to be peaceable, through a door voluntarily opened or already unlocked, with no penalty for keeping it shut. Paragraph 19A of Schedule 12 allows forced re-entry only once a signed controlled goods agreement has been broken. Residential possession work is governed by a separate legal framework entirely, with its own notice periods and, where relevant, court order requirements.

Exempt goods and third-party property

For a debt case, only goods belonging to the named debtor can be taken. Regulation 4 of the Taking Control of Goods Regulations 2013 protects clothing and bedding, essential household equipment, medical and care items, pets, assistance dogs and a vehicle displaying a valid disabled badge whatever the sum owed, plus tools of trade up to £1,350 in total. A vehicle on hire purchase, leased under Motability, or registered to someone else in the household falls outside what can be taken until ownership is checked.

Vulnerability, disputes and arranging payment

Disclose vulnerability in writing as soon as it is relevant; the response should be a change in how the case is handled, not a change to the debt itself. Where the judgment or balance is disputed, that argument belongs with the original claimant and the court, not with the enforcement team; request the writ reference, issuing court and a full fee breakdown in writing. An arrangement to pay by instalments on an open writ usually takes the form of a controlled goods agreement, and breaking one is what opens the door to forced re-entry described above.

Verifying a Morley & File letter

Confirm any letter through the writ reference and issuing court, using contact details found independently of the letter itself, whichever version of the company name it uses. Complaints start with the firm's own procedure; since it is not on the ECB's register, an unresolved conduct complaint against a certificated agent goes to the county court that issued their certificate instead.