Fellow contractors,
After number of years running my own IT consultancy company, I have eventually entered into agreement with some untrustworthy agency who currently will pay and will not respond to payment reminders. Need your expert advice:
Note: I am seeking a legal advice in parallel to this thread, but also keen to hear out other recommendations.
My company (A) provides IT Architectural services to company (D). My company has a contract with very small agency (B) and they have a contract with a large IT Constancy company (C).
The payments are always processed in time from D to C and from C to B. However, the agency (B) will systematically delay payments into my company (A). The payment terms between A and B are 20 days, however they payments are always delayed by 5-6 days.
Now, in the most recent case they payment for August was delayed by approx. 40 days and the payment for September is delayed by 19 days. I am trying to engage with the Agency (B) via phone, email, text, post – to no result. They will switch off their phones and never answer to my emails.
Until now I have done the following:
1.Issued a notice of suspension due to non-payment. I stopped providing my services to target client until the issue is resolved.
2.Sent 3 payment reminders via email.
3.Sent one payment reminder via post.
From your past experience could you please advise on the following questions:
1.How realistic is it to recover these outstanding payments from that agency?
2.What actions in order should I be taking to build a legal case?
3.Are there any specialist lawyers who work on “no win no fee” basis and could pick up this case?
4.What else should I do to build enough of a legal case to take this to the small claims court?
After number of years running my own IT consultancy company, I have eventually entered into agreement with some untrustworthy agency who currently will pay and will not respond to payment reminders. Need your expert advice:
Note: I am seeking a legal advice in parallel to this thread, but also keen to hear out other recommendations.
My company (A) provides IT Architectural services to company (D). My company has a contract with very small agency (B) and they have a contract with a large IT Constancy company (C).
The payments are always processed in time from D to C and from C to B. However, the agency (B) will systematically delay payments into my company (A). The payment terms between A and B are 20 days, however they payments are always delayed by 5-6 days.
Now, in the most recent case they payment for August was delayed by approx. 40 days and the payment for September is delayed by 19 days. I am trying to engage with the Agency (B) via phone, email, text, post – to no result. They will switch off their phones and never answer to my emails.
Until now I have done the following:
1.Issued a notice of suspension due to non-payment. I stopped providing my services to target client until the issue is resolved.
2.Sent 3 payment reminders via email.
3.Sent one payment reminder via post.
From your past experience could you please advise on the following questions:
1.How realistic is it to recover these outstanding payments from that agency?
2.What actions in order should I be taking to build a legal case?
3.Are there any specialist lawyers who work on “no win no fee” basis and could pick up this case?
4.What else should I do to build enough of a legal case to take this to the small claims court?
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