On occasions we come across Solicitors that quite clearly rip their clients off. In this particular case, we know of a well known firm based in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire that charged in excess of £3000.00 when they hadn’t got a hope in hell of recovering the money from the debtor.
1.Did they actually look into the debtors ability to pay the debt?
2. Did they research if the debtor had any other CCJ’s?
3.Did they check if the debtors accounts had been filed on time or not?
The answers are clearly NO. Instead they wasted their clients money by compiling a very comprehensive file of papers which in fairness we are sure impressed the Judge but cost the client thousands of pounds to gain a worthless piece of paper. We are interested to know are they now going to spend even more of their clients money and seek either a Winding Up order (cost about £2000.00) or instruct the High Court Enforcement Officers (more costs) to attempt to collect a debt from what is in effect a ‘Shell Company’. What this whole process exposes is how Solicitors can charge fees for actions that have NO possible hope of success. In this particular case the debtor had ceased trading with this company several months before the action, had failed to file accounts at companies house and already had a collection of County Court Judgements.
We strongley recommend you consider a good debt recovery company before being ripped off by Solicitors who seem to think it is their right to do so……..
Watch this space as further story’s of a similar ilk will follow……
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