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12 years 8 months ago #633 by alex.cooper@acpowersystems.co.uk
Hi All,
please could someone advise if i need to send my customer (who i am taking to court so do not want any more buisness from them) a seperate letter or group of letters for each retrospective overdue invoice?

they never paid a single invoce on time , some up to 140 days overdue, i have read that i can calim on invioices paid up to 5 years ago. so i am working my way throught each invoice.

point of note: even if the interest could only be a few quid, the compensation could be a lot more depending on the value of the invoice.

is there anything they can do or say to avoid paying these to?

i am assuming i can claim the interest and compensation on each invoice seperatly?


thanks in advance.

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12 years 8 months ago #636 by David J
Hello Alex
The general consensus from other poster on this forum is that you charge interest and compensation on each invoice. The legislation states you are entitled to 'reasonable compensation' which is pretty grey. It is up to you to decide what you think is reasonable and only the courts could decide otherwise so best to claim what you are currently entitled to.

Regards

David

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11 years 10 months ago #874 by alex.cooper@acpowersystems.co.uk
Hi All just to update you.

I won my court case, but the judge did not allow the late payments, he said the it was to late in the day to claim interest. both my solicitor and Barister said it was law so should not have been dismissed, and that I could apeal, but I have had enough of court for one life time.
unless anyone has reference to case that was apealed and won?

regards Alex.

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11 years 9 months ago #896 by ashley smith
Well Done Alex.

Try
Walter Lilly & Company Ltd v MacKay & Anor [2012] EWHC 1972 (TCC)

In this case the judge ruled that " In terms of discretionary interest, thereafter, I am of the view that broadly, whilst discretionary interest should not punish a losing defendant, it should reflect the fact that the winning claimant has been kept out of its entitlement until judgment and the losing defendant has had the use of the money."

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