Please Help! Ground worker took money for materials and never came back

[atticus]

A reminder of my suggestion of accepting payment by instalments. If this person cannot repay all in one go, then make it affordable.

[pk786]

It is fairly easy to do a moneyclaim online but costs money to do it. The problem is will you get the money out of this person? If they do not pay you have to enforce (costs more money) and if they have no assets to seize and do not have a property to go after then you get nothing and have spent more. You could try a letter before action telling them that if they do not pay by a certain date you will take them to court and see what happens. Lets see if anyone else has a suggestion!

many thanks for your advice. If he can still chooses not to pay after judgement then there is no point of taking him to court? He can just carry on doing this to other people and have no come back. WoW

[islandgirl]

Well if you win and he does not pay you have to enforce. This costs money. You can do things such as put a charge on property he owns so that it cannot be sold without paying you back. Or you can send in baliffs to take goods (best to escalate to the High Court if possible as their baliffs have more powers but again you have to pay). If any method is successful the costs of enforcement have to be paid by the debtor. If they fail then you lose more. Have you tried a payment plan as suggested by Atticus?