Chapter 13: Messengers-at-arms and sheriff officers

• 1. Introduction
• Messengers-at-arms
• Qualification as a messenger-at-arms
• Sheriff officers
• Qualification as an officer of the court
• 2. What sheriff officers do
• Entering a home or workplace
• Forcing entry
• Checking an officer’s identity
• Eviction
• Exceptional attachment
• 3. Sheriff officers' powers to enforce debts from other parts of the UK
• 4. Making a complaint about a sheriff officer