Ashfords' Debt Recovery Scheme for Public Sector Clients
Ashfords' Debt Recovery solicitors provide a fast and cost effective service for a wide variety of clients in the public sector. We recognise and understand the pressures on the public sector, to perform to targets and with the emphasis on the outcome. We also understand that in this climate there is little room for the traditional approach adopted by lawyers in the past.
Our solicitors have extensive experience of recovering all forms of debts on behalf of local government and other public sector clients. We recover leasehold service charges, council tax arrears, business rates, large contract debts, unpaid invoices for goods or services, late payment penalties pursuant to the Late Payment legislation, statutory and other sundry debts.
We make full use of available IT and case management systems, operating bespoke software, which enables the drafting of Statutory Demands, Bankruptcy Petitions, and Winding Up Petitions to be automated thus driving down legal costs and ensuring instructions are executed swiftly.
Examples of some of the work handled includes:
- collection of unpaid Council Tax, enforcing liability orders by way of appropriate enforcement methods including charging orders, third party debt orders and insolvency proceedings;
- enforcement of a high value interim costs award made in favour of a public authority against the unsuccessful party in a High Court matter;
- insolvency advice and proceedings on behalf of a major London Borough, enforcing judgments and recovering unpaid rent; and
- recovery of high value loan agreements on behalf of a Regional Development Agency by way of insolvency proceedings.
