Problem: Disputed payment application with defective pay less notice of £0 issued by contractor
Outcome: £1.3m recovered plus interest and legal costs from opponent.
How long did it take? Less than 1 month.
Our construction lawyers regularly act for developers, contractors, subcontractors, surveyors and consultants. Our lawyers were instructed via a referral from a previous client to act for a sub-contractor in relation to a payment application dispute with the defendant contractor who had been experiencing financial difficulties for several months and ignoring all requests for payment and threats of adjudication. The defendant contractor submitted a payless notice at £0 however this was contested by our client and did not represent the true value of the claimant client’s work on the project.
The claimant client instructed our expert lawyers to engage in pre-action correspondence with the defendant contractor. Our lawyers investigated the defendant and devised a strategy to obtain payment quickly and cost effectively for the claimant client.
Through carefully crafted correspondence and negotiation our lawyers recovered £1.3m which was the full amount of the claimant client’s payment application plus 100% of the legal fees and interest within 1 month of being instructed. The claimant client has instructed our lawyers on several matters and we have become an extensive of their construction company providing assistance to all their legal needs; the client has also sent several referrals to our lawyers which is testament to the dedication and expertise of our lawyers.
We are the advisor of choice for many clients in England & Wales with construction and debt recovery related issues, and have been described as amongst “the best litigators in the country“. We have had a 100% success rate on recovering and successfully settling claims in our client’s favour. Our lawyers have been able to recover bad debts for clients plus interest and a contribution towards their legal costs (often at 100%).
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