Davey Law joins award-winning Escalate dispute resolution service

Well-known Gloucestershire law firm Davey Law has joined forces with Escalate, the ground-breaking dispute resolution service that is transforming how businesses address bad debt and other commercial disputes. With offices in Cirencester and Gloucester, and a keen and...

Bad debts, late payments and commercial disputes – have your say!

Today we launched our latest snapshot survey to help gauge how SMEs are dealing with the problem of commercial disputes, late payments and bad debts.  We are keen to quantify how the landscape has changed for smaller businesses since our last survey 18 months ago. You...

Escalate and Jonathon Bray launch commercial litigation ‘department store-style concessions’ for law firms

Escalate, the multi-award winning law firm, has joined forces with Jonathon Bray Legal Services to provide law firms with an innovative alternative to setting up their own commercial litigation departments. As part of this pioneering initiative, Escalate and Jonathon...

Avoiding the write-off trap – a new approach to dealing with late payments and ‘bad’ debts

By Chris Clay, Managing PartnerResearch undertaken by Xero last year found that SMEs had £131 billion tied up in late payments and bad debts. This is an eye watering amount – and that was before the economic impact of COVID-19.  But are these so-called bad debts...

Insolvency rules to be relaxed – but cash remains king

The government announced over the weekend proposed changes to the UK’s insolvency regime in response to the disruption caused by coronavirus.  The new rules focus on four areas, with the aim of minimising the risk of companies having to enter formal insolvency as a...