Lucy Tarrant is Head of Debt Recovery within the Litigation Department, and has been with Mayo Wynne Baxter since 2002. Lucy specialises in acting for the financial services industry, in particular asset based lenders and insolvency practitioners.
Lucy also represents both commercial and private clients in relation to any nature of dispute arising from breaches of contract and/or negligence.
Before joining the firm, Lucy trained and qualified at Lloyds TSB in 1998 as their first trainee Solicitor. After qualifying she worked for a private practice, acting for a wide variety of clients. Lucy also is a member of the Institute of Credit Management (ICM).
At work Lucy specialises in factoring, invoice discounting, contractual disputes and contentious probate; acting for both executors and beneficiaries. Outside of work Lucy enjoys running and spending time with her daughter.
Sometimes a document is published that makes me despair. The Office of Fair Trading’s Debt Collection Guidance (for all businesses engaged in the recovery of consumer credit debts), originally published in July 2003 and updated in October 2011, is one such document. Not, as you may assume from my jaundiced tone, because it is badly… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
One of my many useless sayings is that the only type of good client is a paying client. So often I hear clients that come to me to recover an unpaid invoice say that the customer who hasn’t paid them is a good client. Well they’re not. My client’s worry about preserving an ongoing business… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
Would you know what to do if you were served with a Statutory Demand? I’m sure it won’t happen to you, but would you know what to do if it did? Don’t bury your head in the sand, the clock is ticking. If you don’t apply to set it aside within 18 days of it… Read the rest of this post (No Comments)
