Personal Injury

Our client is a major manufacturer and supplier of gifts and branded products to various stores, garden centres, catalogue companies and distributors worldwide. Unpaid Invoices In this case, our client had a series of unpaid bills over a year ranging from £20 to £1,047 which in total amounted to £71,374.

“Obviously cash flow is important for any business, and in this case, my client was owed a considerable amount of money which needed to be recouped,” said Commercial Debt Recovery Executive Leigh Sunter. Unpaid Invoices Legal Action The steps involved in commercial debt recovery include a letter before action or letter before claim, which is, in essence, formal notification putting a company on notice that court proceedings may be brought against them if they do not settle their debts.

Other procedures include court proceedings and enforcement. “We follow these procedures to help clients get paid what is owed quickly,” added Leigh. “We hope that a letter before action will solve the problem and prevent matters from escalating and causing irreparable damage to ongoing business relationships.

” In this case, our client had not been able to recover the debt themselves, and so the pre-litigation procedure followed was an initial letter before action. This letter was sent to the garden centre business outlining the debt owed to our client and gave the debtor 14 days to make payment. “We add our fees to the debt and claim them back in the letter before action, so it’s easy and no risk to clients and at present, we charge a fixed fee for a letter before action,” added Leigh.