Debt Recovery

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Successful Outcome in Pt 55 Repossession Action

Greenhalgh Kerr were successful in seeking Judgment together with legal costs and interest following a disputed Part 55 claim seeking repossession of a property together with rental arrears that had been accruing for over six months, in favour of one of its large accommodation provider clients.

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Recoveries from Deceased Estates

Benjamin Franklin once stated that in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. It is therefore reasonable to assume that companies will have to deal with recovering a debt from the estate of a deceased customer or client.

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Execution Of Company Documents

The correct execution of documents can be pivotal to the success or failure of litigation. Indeed, arguments as to the validity of documentation are commonplace, particularly when there appears to be a question mark over execution.

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Costs and Litigants in Person

The right of recovery of costs of a litigant in person is provided for by statute pursuant to The Litigants in Person (Costs and Expenses) Act 1975 (as amended). The costs allowed are the costs, expenses and losses in respect of any work done in the proceedings to which the order relates.

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Charging Orders – Want More Than Fixed Costs?

A frustrating element of the standard procedure is that only fixed costs are recoverable under the Civil Procedure Rules. The rules state that the claimant is only able to recover a fixed fee of £110.00 towards it solicitor’s costs (CPR Part 45.6). It has long been argued that this sum is simply not sufficient to account for the work involved in making a charging order application, particularly bearing in mind the requirements of service on unsecured creditors, of which there can be many.

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Guarantors – Some Considerations

Q. We are a finance house who entered into a commercial hire agreement with a new company who needed to acquire plant and equipment. It was a condition of the agreement that both directors gave their personal guarantees. Now the company has collapsed and one of the directors has already gone bankrupt. The other one is saying that he never saw the form and it is not his signature. We thought we had security but now we are contemplating a huge write-off. Could we have done anything more to protect ourselves?

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Getting Your Debtor Details Correct

Q. I have recently chased a number of debtors by bringing county court claims against them. In a couple of these claims the cases have been stopped because the court agree with the defendant that I have sued the wrong person. I have even had to pay court costs to people who owe me money for unpaid invoices. How can this be?

Greenhalgh Kerr
Olympic House, Beecham Court,
Smithy Brook Rd,
Wigan WN3 6PR

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We are confident in our work and we know that recoveries is a key part of a lender or creditor’s business

We are confident in our work and we know that recoveries is a key part of a lender or creditor’s business. We have designed our pilot projects to give lenders and creditors the comfort and confidence in our service before formally and fully switching recoveries providers. This time also allows new clients to benchmark our service levers and results against existing providers and others.

How it works

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You choose 10 recoveries cases

You choose 10 recoveries cases to get us started. We’ll deliver our usual onboarding protocol where we’ll get to know you and your systems, culture, methods, preferences, and requirements.

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We get started

We assess each case by setting a strategy then grading and reporting on the case in terms of prospects and timescales and cost. We make immediate contact with debtors, and pursue a recovery in our tried and tested ways.

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We review

We deliver ongoing, structured, tailored reports as per your needs and carry out a full 3-month review on these 20 cases. There we’ll discuss how we have worked together, patterns we have seen in your borrowers, your systems, your documents, your pre-legal conduct, outcomes, highs and lows, legal costs (and costs borne by debtors), and possible improvements in all of these.

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No strings

We carry on working in this way until all cases have been concluded. You are then free to carry on your discussions with us or to use the experience and market intelligence gained by working with us in the future.

Lenders and creditors have nothing to lose, and everything to gain, by engaging with us on a pilot project.