Help is now available to fund smaller claims
You no longer need to give up claims because you can’t afford to run them.
The market for funding claims has been developing for some time and there are now a number of alternatives to the traditional solicitor hourly rate. The entry into the market of these businesses that will pay your lawyers to run relatively small claims is an important development.
These ‘third-party funders’ will typically pay your lawyers as the case proceeds and in return charge interest on the money advanced and take a proportion of any money that you recover.
These schemes allow you to recover monies or assets that are due to your business, preserve your working capital and limit your exposure to cost and risks.
The initial risk assessment is important - if the assessment is positive you will know that both your lawyers and an experienced third party think a claim is good enough to share the risks of litigation or arbitration with you.
You should always consider third-party funding and all the other funding methods that are now available to you.
M&S Solicitors has been helping clients fund litigation for many years by sharing the risk with them. We have now added to the options we can make available to our clients by building strong links with a market leading third-party funder.
For further details please email Rob or Andrew, or call us on 01530 266000
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As I explained in my previous update , this is a scheme whereby 80% of a furloughed employee’s salary will be reimbursed by HMRC to the employer. The employer will need to designate the employee as furloughed and input the details into the HMRC portal. This is not yet ready and is unlikely to be so for 6 to 8 weeks. We are told it will be backdated to 1st March. It seems that employers are being advised to take out loans to fund this in the meantime, which is in itself causing problems.
What happens if I cannot fulfil my obligations to my customer or my customer cannot pay me? What happens if my suppliers cannot supply me?
By now we have all worked out how to keep our colleagues, customers, and contacts safe and how to manage employees. I hope the email we sent on 23 March helped.
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