Money owed for work

rupee99

You should not let pride govern your decision. The impression I get from his letter and other things you have written is that he probably won't defend the procedings, nor try and claim back the money he has already paid you, I don't think he has the intelllectual werewithal to do so, but even if you do win you are unlikely to end up with any money.

A few people are in the lucky position of being able to say "it's not the money it's the principle," if you are amongst the rest of us then your best result may be to take the £500 as it is the most likely way that you will receive anything.

(I suspect he is not clever enough to get you to sign a release saying that the payment is in full and final settlement so you could still sue him for the balance if he doesn't;))

MothballsWallet

I think I'm just going to accept the 500 quid as I don't think I'm in the lucky position at all right now

He's writing the emails in a way that says "this is a first payment", but I'll say something like "I accept your goodwill offer and we will discuss settling the remainder in the near future".

jdturk

which means he knows you won't get anymore money

MothballsWallet

Yeah, perhaps: but when I read his response (see post #29) it actually frightened the living daylights out of me.

I'm going to accept his offer because, as rupee says, he does seem to be ignorant of certain parts of the law, and also to minimise my losses (I've already forked out 80 quid on the claim, which I've resigned myself to losing now) overall.

Besides, I'd like to put a condition whereby he starts paying again when the company makes money (and it may well do shortly, but neither my friend nor I will be working for him), then I can still go back to court if he fails to keep his side of the bargain.

Savvy_Sue

Do you really think he's going to pay this £500? If he was, why has he not done so already?

jdturk

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Yeah, perhaps: but when I read his response (see post #29) it actually frightened the living daylights out of me.

I'm going to accept his offer because, as rupee says, he does seem to be ignorant of certain parts of the law, and also to minimise my losses (I've already forked out 80 quid on the claim, which I've resigned myself to losing now) overall.

Besides, I'd like to put a condition whereby he starts paying again when the company makes money (and it may well do shortly, but neither my friend nor I will be working for him), then I can still go back to court if he fails to keep his side of the bargain.

just make sure you get it all in writing!!!!