Cavell Leitch

Debt Recovery

Our dispute resolution team has a wealth of experience acting for clients to recover and defend actions for outstanding debts.

Our area of expertise

We offer assistance at all stages of the debt recovery process. We have worked with a number of debt recovery agencies and know the options, processes, and strategies for enforcing or defending actions in debt recovery.

Work that we regularly carry out includes:

Providing legal advice on options for pursuing a debt

  • Letters of demand

  • Statutory demands

  • Obtaining judgment through standard and summary judgment proceedings brought in the District Court and High Court

  • Bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings

  • Enforcing judgments including, financial assessment hearings, charging orders, sale orders

  • Advice on international enforcement of judgments and overseas debtors

  • Mortgagee sales

  • Negotiating settlements

  • Advice to collection agencies and lenders on recovery of assigned and purchased debt

  • Assisting with applications brought in the Disputes Tribunal

We also assist councils throughout the country in proceedings for the recovery of unpaid rates. We can assist in obtaining judgment, through to forced sales under the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.

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