[excelcrewe]

i had a cheque stopped by client because he was not happy with cleaning of his range . i threatened to take to court , he sent me pictures of range , after i had done work. they were taken before i started, alsothe pictures are poor quality , and have no date on them. would a judge use these pictures? i intend to take him to court , just on principal.

[*Chris Browne]

Always get your work signed off when you finish,

[drivewasher]

It's an offence to stop a cheque even if the custy's not happy. My mate was arrested after he stopped a cheque cos the bloke he wrote it to insisted that he was dealt with by police as it's fraud.

Aparently, the point of signing a cheque is to promise to pay his signature is stating he's happy to pay you. If he then has any claims he must take you to court to rectify this and get his money he promise you, back!

[cml]

Taking someone to court can be a costly exercise.

In the first instance it is not clear why your client paid you for works they clearly were not happy with. The issuing of a cheque shows an intention to pay for services or a debt owed; by this payment it acknowledges that performance of works has been carried out. 

Should such a matter appear before the courts it is easy for you to prove you carried out works for which payment should be received the only question is how much?  Your client will certainly argue works were of poor performance and unsatisfactory but will end up paying you something for works completed and possibly the full amount due.

Before going to court, could you not come to some arrangement with your client.  Do you think he is trying to get one over on you by not paying for works?  If this is so this may support your application. I suggest you try to get to the real issues of contention if you have not done so already and try to solves these so payment can be made.  If it remains unsolved then consider the amount you are trying to recover against court costs before going  to court.  Nonetheless you may think it is worth it if you are going to proceeding based on a matter of principal.

Good luck!!!

[mark dew]

you can claim through the courts here for the cost of £30.

https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/csmco2/index.jsp

[stuart_clark]

I had a similar experience a few years ago with a builder from hell !!
he was to lay a cocreate garage base for a garage that i had purchased from a local company, he was suposed to lay a sub granular sub base approx ten inches deep and then the concrete base eight inches above t 
all he actually did was to cut the turf of the lawn then build the base on top of this, he was paid for this in advance to cover his building material expences, fortunatly my brother is a building inspector and noticed things were not quite right  and i was able to stop the cheque that i had payed hime before it cleared
he threatend to take me to court , so i had an independent survey done with regards to the base ! when it eventually went to court the judge found in my faviour and ordered him to remove the mess that he had created