Pm for you Geoff.

it has feline links to it!….you got me stumped!

Companies house entries make interesting reading

Bill

As a (retired) journalist, let me ask you to be careful with the libel laws, which apply to all forms of publishing including websites.. I know it sounds daft, but in some circumstances you can get into trouble for telling the truth. The company has already been identified in that most of us have guessed it. I suggest anyone with a complaint goes through the local trading standards department and/or the small claims court. I am not defending this company – just sounding a warning.

Says a lot doesn’t it Rod!
M. P

And generally speaking, a company can't sue you for libel/defamation, unless perhaps it is a one man show which this one appears not to be? And you are unlikely to run into trouble publishing anything that is true, providing it is in the public interest, eg to the benefit of the public (forum members) to know this company has trouble delivering on its promises and has been in court for the same. Quite often owners of business threaten to "sue for libel/defamation" as a means to bully unsatisfied customers into not spreading the word around. Very very rarely does it come to actually happen. It costs a fortune to mount a libel/defo suit, and juries tend to be sympathetic to the little guy customer rather than the bullying businessman.

The advice is always not to bother trying to get a CCJ unless you know you can enforce it.

Frequently a much more effective way, if the debt is over £750, is to issue a Statutory Demand, as a precursor to a bankruptcy order (a personal trader) or winding up order (if a limited company).

Firstly, I will mention that my job for 41 years until I retired last year was corporate insolvency………….

I just had a quick look at the papers filed at Companies House for Lynx Model Works.

Zero assets, debts of £245,000, liquidators fees unpaid, and I note the liquidator has already filed a Statutory Demand against Mr Clarke, and even they have only been able to partially recover.

Mr Clarke is now refusing to cooperate with the liquidator, and legal steps are being taken to enforce his co-operation.

In my opinion, and my experience, it is unlikely that anyone that has given money to Mr Clarke and not received their goods is likely to ever see a penny of their money back, depending on which company had their money.

It will almost certainly be a waste of time taking any action against him, as I suspect you will be a long way down a long queue, to which there is no pot of gold at the end of.

I have, of course, seen this behaviour many, many times over the years, particularly 'Phoenix' companies that spring up from the ashes of previous deceased companies, almost always with the same directors. I have attempted to get similar acting directors struck off at Companies House in the past as unfit to hold the position of director, sadly it is rare anything is done about them.

No chance of anything libelous in the above, all the documents, sums and comments made are a matter of public record.

If you pay someone a deposit, always use a credit card. In a case such as this you may then have recourse from the card provider.

Edited By David Standing 1 on 23/10/2017 22:19:08