The law is in place to help businesses owed £8,000 as much as it is PLCs owed £8 million, but if it can be expensive to hire lawyers, what hope is there for justice? Plenty. The legal system is designed to allow people to bring their own small claims, or defend them – without the need (or cost) of lawyers.
Once you have a little training, you'll be able to run small claims by yourself, and recover thousands of pounds – a sum which will mount up quickly if you are a business with a number of debtors, helping your profit margin to thrive.
In this six-part series (combined into a single sitting for your convenience), we show you how to bring or defend a small claim, how to conduct it through to a hearing and how to enforce judgment – in short, how to get justice in the Small Claims court that is no less sweet than in the High Court.
This series was produced by Nick Leigh, Legal Director, Annabel Morgan, Solicitor, and Jacques Domican-Bird, Associate.
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