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Small Claims Court

nickdj · 2018-04-07 09:48:41

Good morning, Apologies if this is the wrong section for this post. I couldn't find one which fits my query. 14 months ago I leant a friend £500 for a personal reason. It was aimed to help her get through a tough time where she was considering suicide. I have been polite and amicable about the situation and tried to keep…

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sourcrates Posts: 31,811 Ambassador

7 April 2018 at 4:53PM edited 7 April 2018 at 5:26PM

Tarambor wrote: »

Once upon a time you could let it rack up to £750 with interest then bankrupt them. It would be worth it even if I never saw another penny just for the satisfaction of knowing they'd not got off unscathed. Sadly that's now gone up to £5000.

And i was one of those nice people who took part in the parliamentary research consultation carried out by the Justice Policy Group @ Ministry of Justice to raise the Bankruptcy threshold limit from £750 to £5000.

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