If you are offered a discount for early payment, don't expect the discount when you pay late! One of our regular recruitment sector clients contacted us with a debt when their client had been given special terms (a discount) under one simple condition, pay on time. Shockingly, despite the handsome discount fee given for the placement, [...]
Our client who operates in the environmental and industrial waste sector had completed a job where they were instructed to remove waste from a building site comprising of heavy mixed waste. The waste was collected and removed, being signed off by the site manager. The MD of the construction company later refused to pay for the [...]
Recruitment Sector Debt - Collected! This recruitment sector debt collection success began when our client contacted us having suffered two of their staff being ‘poached’ by a competitor agency. The two staff were at that time contracted out to a hiring company by our client. The competitor continued supplying them to the hiring company. The hiring company [...]
SMEs will be disadvantaged in chasing late payments from big business customers the Bar Council has warned. Wealthy individuals and big business will have the upper hand in court proceedings if further increases in court fees get the go ahead under plans announced by the Ministry of Justice, the Bar Council has warned. The Bar Council, which [...]
Sterling provides debt collection service to several UK Top 100 Accountancy firms. Recent success story from the accountancy sector: We received the debt this month from our client, one of the Top 100 accountancy firms in the UK, invoice value circa £10k, dating back to the end of 2014. We traced the most relevant person to [...]
Small Claims Court: A Small Claims Court success for our client who performed plumbing works for a large chain restaurant, which subsequently refused to pay on the grounds that the documents were not in order and the Purchase Order had not been complied with. We filed a claim against them in the Small Claims Court, adding [...]
The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013, otherwise known as ‘The Jackson Reforms’, come into force in England and Wales on 1 April 2013. One of the key effects of the reforms on debt recovery is the increase of upper limit of the value of cases which ought to be allocated to the Small Claims Track to [...]