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This morning I am due in court..!!

Not for anything I have done, but to try to get a business to pay its bill to my company. The invoice was rendeded last November, and only part paid - so I have to go to court to get the rest.

It is so frustrating as it has taken this long to resolve - we then got a CCJ against them, but they have appealed to get the judgement set aside. It is that hearing today.


Stressed

Good luck with the court appearance!
I would have thought setting Clive on them would have been enough... Oh...cCj,.. not cJj... sorry:whistle:

Good luck today mate, hope you get it sorted out...

Good luck mate

Aww you must be so stressed hun! I hope it gets resolved today & doesn't drag on any longer! Good luck!

yeah good luck buddy, too many non payers around nowadays and they can put a business under, really gets my goat to put it politely.

good luck hpr it goes your way

How did it go mate?

Hope it went well

Hopefully they will pay you what you are owed...
The downside of self employment is always getting money out of folks. Im owed a scary amount by one company and am about to pass it on to my solicitors, it wasn't nice when it first started, I had just enough cash in the bank for a weeks worth of diesel to get to sites, after that I would have been parked till someone paid me.
Good luck with it all mate.

David Aiketgate;2240 wrote: wrote:

Good luck with the court appearance!
I would have thought setting Clive on them would have been enough... Oh...cCj,.. not cJj... sorry:whistle:

Classic - :lolm::lolf: - I didnt think, I should have sent "the boys" around..!!

Teri;2241 wrote: wrote:

Good luck today mate, hope you get it sorted out...

The Prometheus;2242 wrote: wrote:

Good luck mate

Yves Adele Harlow;2244 wrote: wrote:

Aww you must be so stressed hun! I hope it gets resolved today & doesn't drag on any longer! Good luck!

Gos;2247 wrote: wrote:

yeah good luck buddy, too many non payers around nowadays and they can put a business under, really gets my goat to put it politely.

jonnocash;2260 wrote: wrote:

good luck hpr it goes your way

CJJ;2295 wrote: wrote:

How did it go mate?

Britny;2301 wrote: wrote:

Hope it went well

Thanks for all your posts - that is what I love about this place - support, community feeling and mates.

Well - the other side got our CCJ set aside, but only after having to pay our costs for the hearing today. Basically they filled the first form in incorrectly, then backtracked - it was to be expected really.

The District Judge urged us, whilst in the same building, to discuss the matter and try to reach a settlement. In the end I accepted 50% of the money owing, a settlement of about £1,900.00. On reflection it would cost me more than that in my time to file a response to the defence and to have to appear in court again. The other side were also trying to counter-claim (for what, god only knows) so there is a chance we wouldnt have got anything.

Memo to self - be more choosy who you do work for in future..!!

Note to forum - thanks guys and girls for your support.


Paul

PS - cheers to Andy too - our posts must have crossed..!!

Its not right though - all this proves is that its worthwhile not paying a bill but agree with that it will cost you too much in legal fees if you don't accept. I was involved with this sort of thing in my last job (years ago) glad its all just a memory now.