Question on my business

Hi,

we provide translation and interpretation services to, amongst others, solicitors and their firms. They have a very bad reputation for non-payment because their client has not paid, LSC has not paid, etc.

As the economic climate is getting tougher I am trying to "bite my tongue" when it comes to arguing they are wrong, and I try to impose this law as little as possible. There is however one client which has consistently paid late and as we are chasing our debt, we found out they are now placing orders with other agencies to "gain time" AND contacting our interpreters directly trying to by-pass the agency.

Anyways, can I charge interest in arreas for the invoices paid late (within the last 4 months?)

This is great news. Thanks.

I would definetely let you guys know :)

One more question i am afraid :).
I was just looking back at the number of invoices paid late and there are 4.
As they are small invoices which fall within the £40 fee+ interest. This works out to over £160 in addition to the current invoices which still have not been paid. This means that they will receive aprox £250 charges all together. They will obviously not pay that and i will probably have to take them to court, which i will gladly do especially as they are local to us. The issue comes when we do get before a district judge and how will they view this? Will they not view it as abuse of legislation? Any ideas please?