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[ratewhore]

Good result. If this happens more often instead of contractors rolling over and getting a royal shafting then maybe some agencies may change their attitude...

[Tex]

Well done, Mustang.

[Mustang]

Post script.........

Spoke to the court today to notify them that the Defendant had paid. Imagine my horror when I found out that as they have paid within one month, the CCJ will AUTOMATICALLY be removed!!

So in summary: -

* They withold over £15K of MY money
* They refuse to pay interest
* I have to take them to court
* They refuse to defend themselves
* I win the case but because they just nonchalantly pay up, there is no legal penalty against them.

IMHO, they are criminals and deserve the judgement against them. ONCE AGAIN the laws in the Country of ours are seen to be an ASS!!!!

Forgive me whilst I go hit vent in an open field..............!!

[ASB]

Spoke to the court today to notify them that the Defendant had paid. Imagine my horror when I found out that as they have paid within one month, the CCJ will AUTOMATICALLY be removed!!

So in summary: -

* They withold over £15K of MY money
* They refuse to pay interest
* I have to take them to court
* They refuse to defend themselves
* I win the case but because they just nonchalantly pay up, there is no legal penalty against them.

IMHO, they are criminals and deserve the judgement against them. ONCE AGAIN the laws in the Country of ours are seen to be an ASS!!!!

Forgive me whilst I go hit vent in an open field..............!!

Ok, in this particular case it seems reasonable that the CCJ should stay (but it doesn't).

But look at it from a slightly different POV.

You buy some goods or services from me. They are (in your opinion) outwith the spec/agreement. I believe they are within. Off we go to court. Judge decides they are to spec and orders you to pay up. So you do and write it off down to experience.

If the CCJ is not removed this affect your credit rating. Simply for having a legitimate dispute. That would be equally unreasonable wouldn't it?

Well done for winning and getting the interest though. Me, I gave up on my last claim.

[Mailman]

Well done Mustang.

Imagine though if you had taken the advice of people like Tim and co. You would have settled for no money and no expenses claim. You would have settled for being bent over an apple cart and in 9 months time you would be giving birth to your agents love child.

Thank god there are people like yourself (and me ) who are not just prepared to roll over and be rogered up the jacksee!

Apart from the CCJ being removed...do you feel satisfied that you stuffed these cow boys at their own game?

Regards

Mailman

[tim123]

I don't recall advising anyone to take, or not to take any specific action in these circumstances.

I think I just said that most people would see it as not worth the aggro and decide not to. Of course, whether this is the case or not depends upon how much the interest actually is.

700 quid is obviously a good result, but you need 10 grand owing for 6 months to accumulate this much interest.

Most times you will be due much less than this in interest owed.

tim

[Mailman]

So now you are basing your decision on the amount of interest owed?

Sorry...but I dont buy that.

If someone, like an agent, has deliberately broken your contract AND OR with held money due from you then people should take legal action.

No ifs, no buts because at the end of the day if you just roll over and let these scum get away with your money all you are doing is encouraging more of this kind of behaviour!

And yes, I have no problems with Agents or Clients doing the same where contractors have disppeared or done substandard work as this would also get rid of the cowboys who pass themselves off as contractors.

Win-win situation for everyone.

Mailman

[tim123]

So now you are basing your decision on the amount of interest owed?

Sorry...but I dont buy that.
Mailman

But that's always the way it works.

Unless the court is right by your place of work, going to court will cost you a half day off work - minimum. AIUI on the small claims track this is not an allowable expense, so you will be out of pocket by half a day's chargeout.

It really isn't worth sticking a summons on someone desk for 30 quids worth of interest.

And this is what I've always meant when I say that it isn't worth the aggro
(even if I didn't actually say so). I haven't just decided it this week.

tim

[Mailman]

I see where you are coming from Tim but I based my decision on taking legal action on the amount of money owed to me by my "former" agents. The interest due was of little consequence but the several thousand pounds in unpaid invoices was of the most concern to me.

Again, I could have done as you would have done and just rolled over and taken one for the team. However what good would that have done? These scum would have carried on ripping people off (as I believe Im not the only one to be treated like this BUT I was certainly the first to deal with their dodgy as hell practices).

The upshot of my actions was the scum agents having to rewrite all their contracts and making payouts to some they had ripped off (for some reason their solicitors kept on telling us a lot more info than they should have ).

Its the old "Ill keep doing something until Im told to stop". In this case it was the court that told the agents to stop! However if we took your approach agents would get away with murder because there would be no consequences for their dodgy actions!

Mailman

[BlasterBates]

I am still over £300 pounds "up"

Well done, but really wouldn't it have been easier to a couple of hours overtime for a couple of nights.