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blackni
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Hey guys need your help on this one...
We are a marketing and design agency.
We produced websites, performed marketing research, and had items printed for a client over a space of about 6 weeks.
Our client was a number of weeks past their credit terms and despite many emails and phone calls did not pay - they asked for two weeks to pay the bill as they did not have the funds. We were very fair and asked for a little up front (to cover our costs) - but when the money was available they must pay in full.
After a few days the client did not pay up front.
They had received printed business cards (£800) and work on their websites (£5000). We took the websites offline, but there was nothing we could do about the business cards.
Anyway, a week later, my colleague was seeing another client close to their offices in london so decided to call round and collect a cheque. The client agreed.
The cheque was deposited in the bank only to find that a few days later that it bounced.
The client was contacted and told that we would initialise a CCJ against him (he was not a limited company) and that because he had written a cheque knowing that the funds were not available that he has committed a crime.
The client has now said that he will pay today, and we have to agree not to take any further legal action against him of any kind.
Now that makes me a little suspicious... my question is do I have a legal duty to report the client?
If I do whom do I report him to - the police?
He uses many building materials suppliers and contractors - and so good credit is very important to him - but if he is writing bad cheques someone else may get burned.
What are your thoughts???
We are a marketing and design agency.
We produced websites, performed marketing research, and had items printed for a client over a space of about 6 weeks.
Our client was a number of weeks past their credit terms and despite many emails and phone calls did not pay - they asked for two weeks to pay the bill as they did not have the funds. We were very fair and asked for a little up front (to cover our costs) - but when the money was available they must pay in full.
After a few days the client did not pay up front.
They had received printed business cards (£800) and work on their websites (£5000). We took the websites offline, but there was nothing we could do about the business cards.
Anyway, a week later, my colleague was seeing another client close to their offices in london so decided to call round and collect a cheque. The client agreed.
The cheque was deposited in the bank only to find that a few days later that it bounced.
The client was contacted and told that we would initialise a CCJ against him (he was not a limited company) and that because he had written a cheque knowing that the funds were not available that he has committed a crime.
The client has now said that he will pay today, and we have to agree not to take any further legal action against him of any kind.
Now that makes me a little suspicious... my question is do I have a legal duty to report the client?
If I do whom do I report him to - the police?
He uses many building materials suppliers and contractors - and so good credit is very important to him - but if he is writing bad cheques someone else may get burned.
What are your thoughts???
