Owed money from agency but timesheet not authorised.

[IT_BOY]

That depends on what it says in the contract. If it's a contract for a deliverable, then that might be so, but if it's a case of manning a phone line for 8 hours a day, for an hourly or daily rate, it's rather more difficult to argue that he hasn't delivered on the days he was there.

Also depends what the contract says about notice periods. If he had no requirement to give notice, i.e. the contract says he could walk out at any time, then they don't have a leg to stand on. If he did have to give notice, but didn't, or had no ability to give notice, then he might be better off walking away because they might sue him for more than he sues them for.

The odd thing is why the OP terminated the contract for 4 days.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like the client are using this to get rid of a contractor they weren't all that impressed with.

well what i heard they had a number of contractors before me and they have not replaced me after a month. The system is live in PRD so i have delevered and its working away.

[IT_BOY]

All this what you are entitled to and not entitled to is very nice but you hand your notice in and 4 days later you want to come back? You have screwed them over royally and to add insult to injury you come crawling back to them expecting to carry on like nothing has happened.

If that was me you can go whistle. Whatever you are 'entitled' to or covered for you can KMA. All the official lines of recourse are useless if the client doesn't want to pay and thats that.

I can't believe you will get a lawyer so at the end of the day your stuffed. Take it as a lesson that you will always be the one losing out when you stuff your client over IMO

fair cop ! ... appreciate this , sometimes being harsh is a sanity check.