Scoitish law used to force response from slow payer
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• A Falkirk haulier has been forced to go to court in a bid to retrieve 212,500 it is owed by Grangemouth-based Currie Line Haulage (CLH).
Andrew Phillips of Andrew Phillips Transport Services has had an arrestment order put on CLH to get money owed for domestic jobs his firm carried out between October and December last year. The order, which is peculiar to Scottish law, effectively forces the company owing the money to pay up within 21 days or announce they will fight the claim. Debt collection agency Blacklock Thorley obtained the order at the Sheriffs court in Falkirk on 10 January, giving CLH until 1 February to reply. If it fails so to do, the court con order the firm to pay money owed and enforce that decision Alistair Smith, CLH's financial director, admits his firm has had cash flow difficulties.
A Phillips spokeswoman says: "We offered to take the money at 21,000 a week but they refused all our requests and would not return our calls—they forced us to take this action.'