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Just found out that a "client" we did some work for 12 months ago has just been declared bankrupt owing me £10,000.
Person in question was a solicitor [ffs] who lied through her teeth when the job started. Project took 3 months with one invoice/month - she paid the first then nothing.
Since the spring I've spent about £2000 in legal costs taking her to court [we got a judgement against her two weeks ago] and was just about to apply for a charge on her house.
So this woman has cost me £12,000 exactly when I need it most and now there's nothing I can do about it ............ b***h!
Just doesn't seem right that this sort of thing can be allowed to happen. Rant over.
is it right? No
is it incredibly commonplace? Yes
will it every change? Unlikely
happens all the time in my industry except they tend to be taken into administration, sold to the original owners then pheonixed under a slightly different name.
Really feel for you mate, that's awful.
I've been sweating on getting £40k out of a big client that's been owing to my company for some time.
Looks like it's on the way at last, but I've had to threaten to withdraw from other projects and really kick up a stink.
Hope you can get back on your feet OK.
Debt Collection agency, there are some that will send people around to ask for your money, I used to do it, always business cases... 😈
Inform her that your considering contacting the Law Society. Do you have correspondence from her? Is there anything you could do discuss with your solicitor interms of attempting to procure services without paying? I dont get how a solicitor can roll completely over on a debt unless she is whiter than whiter without a comeback from her professional body.
In addition, I wonder if shes informed the Law Society about her new situation. When we looked into rolling up the company we were told by a liquidation expert that its not as clean-cut. There is a mark against the Directors of the company.
I dont get how a solicitor can roll completely over on a debt unless she is whiter than whiter without a comeback from her professional body.
Ha! GLWT.
Can you sell the debt and reduce your losses???
This is why we insist on deposits from customers. Doesnt matter if its Joe Bloggs or Eddie Stobarts. The bigger they are the more likely they are to shaft you. Its really difficult insisting on a deposit from customers who have paid on the nose for the last 10 yrs and have no intention of doing the dirty. We actually have a computer check on EVERY customer we sell a vehicle to. Head office call it risk disc or something but it means that i havent got the grief if i ever have a customer who does it to me.
Sorry to hear about your troubles
The Thomas Higgins Partnership been rated highly by a mate of mine...chase up debts for buttons...need them to recover money owed from March!
jesus £12k alot of money in anyones book I feel for you just being hung out to dry, I can honestly imagine people have been killed over stuff like this. hope you get sorted soon.
ourmaninthenorth I had to look GLWT up! I dont know, I wouldnt ****ing give up though. Depending on the womans line of work Im sure there would be an outside chance of a comeback to her.
Join the club.
I lost 23K to one guy and was only making about 17% on that, I had to stump up the money out of my own pocket.
The guy falsified everything, and a certain bank cleared him credit wise. However he had a habit of borrowing money for houses he couldn't afford, he had mortgages totaling over 750K and a monthly income of about £500!
She's no longer a solicitor and has handed her practice certificate [or whatever it is] back in - so she's not under any professional pressure.
Can a debt collection agency do anything if the person's declared bankrupt? Don't all her assets now belong to the appointed receiver?
Whytetrash: thanks for the pointer - quite ironic as they're based about 3 miles from my client! I don't think they can do anything though as I've been through the courts and got judgement against her already, but once she's been declared bankrupt I think I'm stuffed.
Can I be the first to say:
[b][i]Bitch![/b][/i]
We had two clients so far this year, that have done this to us!
surely if she's bancrupt you in line for a share of whatever's left (house, office, car, etc etc etc)? Or is the soloicitors bankrupt, not her personaly?
She is personally bankrupt but people get paid in roughly the following order:
Mortgage company
Anybody else with a charge on her property (which was what I was going for next)
Customs & Excise
Inland Revenue
...... anything left over is then spread thinly between registered creditors (i.e. me) 🙁
If I get anything it will be a fraction of the debt and I'd be amazed if I got the £2k back I've spent on solicitors and court fees.
Ah personally. How sh1t a Solicitor is she? Unless of course it was intentional to defraud her creditors.
It sounds unfortunate for both of you
It sounds unfortunate for both of you
Has she bought back the companies main assets?
It sounds unfortunate for both of you
Frankly I'm not too bothered about her postion right now.
Has she bought back the companies main assets?
Apparently the company had no assets.
id class her kneecaps as assets....she what she thinks.
🙂
^^ Very tempting I can tell you. 👿
a gentle nudge into the gutter worked for me a few years ago with one very nasty client who lied through his teeth for £10K of debt, that and a few knocks on his front door as well