Debt Recovery

Cash is the life blood of every business. Without it a company is likely to fail. Getting in your outstanding debts is vital. Can we help? Our Debt Recovery Department, based in Guildford, handles a wide variety of debt recovery claims for corporate clients, from PLCs to professional partnerships and sole traders, as well as individuals.

We know that debts need to be collected quickly and efficiently to ensure our clients’ businesses do not suffer.

We know prompt initial action produces results and therefore all debts submitted or instructions received will be processed and actioned within 24 hours. After an appropriate letter before action or service of a statutory demand to initiate bankruptcy or liquidation of the debtor, we issue proceedings with all speed.

Our Guildford office is situated close to the Courts (both the County Court and a Division of the High Court), and the Courts are visited daily by our litigation lawyers enabling judgments to be obtained quickly. After judgment, we will discuss the most appropriate method of enforcement with you which may include instructing the sheriffs to recover goods or obtaining attachment of earnings or charging orders.

 Where cases are defended, we will advise on the economics of pursuing the recovery through the Court and keep you up to date with the level of costs being incurred throughout the action. We shall carefully advise you on the legal issues involved in any defence. Regular reporting on the progress of each debt, in a form to suit you is a key part of our service. Our system is flexible and the recovery process can be stopped at any stage if agreement with a debtor is reached.

 We have an extensive network of enquiry and service agents throughout the UK, as well as abroad, to assist us in the service of proceedings and the Court process. We do handle debts where foreign jurisdiction is an issue. In addition, we take a pro-active role in advising our clients to avoid bad debts with their credit control procedures. We will work with them to ensure that their terms and conditions of business are well drafted and meet the business needs.

We also provide credit-rating checks and seminars for directors and credit control staff