Advice please, 5 figure sum to RLP

[ericsbrother]

RLP will charge Sainsburys a good few quid to process the paperwork needed for a court claim and then put Sainsburys name on the paperwork (as they have no rights in this matter)

 

. As stated by others, they are NOT solicitors and cant actually act on behalf of anyone else and to add to that they have invented costs that dont exist to inflate the claim.

 

Now, if sainsburys want to go along with that it is up to them but they will be paying cost they dont need to bear by doing so as well as lining Jackie's pocket.

 

 

I would let them do their worst, it wont make any real difference as long as hubby does his sums and argues to the end about the true level of loss to the company.

 

When a robust defence is submitted to the court the claimant often realises that the simplistic submissions done in their name arent good enough to get them everything they are claiming and they will happily back pedal

 

if it comes to it do accept mediation and produce you figures as then the claimant will have to show they have their sums right to the penny or they will be paying costs for the day out ( it isnt small claims track so costs are a big factor here)

 

being broke will also help him, paying this off at a fiver a month wont please them if they have turned down a cash offer to settle out of court so work out your strategy.

Edited July 16, 2018 by honeybee13
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[ericsbrother]

I read through their integrity screening website blurb and was amused at their traffic light system and how they decide who gets a red light.

 

Terrorist? green light,

not on electoral roll? CCJ? amber light.

received a meaningless threatogram from RLP? RED LIGHT, RED LIGHT ALERT ALERT...

 

They are selling a service that only makes use of their other databases so you have to believe in fairies as well as pay them twice for obtaining information that is mostly in the public domain.

[ericsbrother]

not sure where i got sainsburys from but the advice remains the same,

basically RLP or anyone else cant add massive costs to this claim just because they feel like it.

 

However, as it will not be dealt with by the small claims track all legal costs at taxation can be added and this is where RLP may try their luck.

 

They are not a CAB type organisation, they are a company that sells a false premise that charging companies to let them try and screw supposed miscreants out of money not owed makes retail theft less likely.

No research ever done to support that supposition.

 

Also they run this sister company that supplies "blacklists" to potential employers at great risk to the employer and RLP if you look at the demise of similar schemes in the building trade.

 

Eric, I think you may have clicked on the wrong post? This isn't a Sainsbury's case

 

So, what I've understood is that RLP have nothing to legally stand on and basically act as a CAB-esque company for other companies.

Edited July 26, 2018 by dx100uk
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[ericsbrother]

RLP can do nothing, even if instructed by their client to do so. The client can hre a lawyer but they wont be answerable to RLP and any costs added on are not the whim of Jackie. any deadline she sets is arbitrary and cant be eoforced by her nor anything read into the fact you choose to ignore her.

 

RLP dotn have a legal department becasue they dont need on as they cant actually do anything on that front.

ignore them some more and let us know if the store or their appointed solicitors write

[ericsbrother]

maybe but there wont be made up costs added to the bill so any settlement may well be half of the amount jackie says is owed

[ericsbrother]

they are asking you do agree to pay them so they can legitimise their claptrap. If you do nothing then they can do nothing other then pass the matter back to the "client". All of the expenses will be the same anyway so no benefit to you in engaging with them and I would say the opposite is true, they wont make money if you come to an agreeement with the original client so they will do ther damndest to keep you apart despite their words saying they want to help settle this.

[ericsbrother]

Many private detective agencies get employed to do this kind of work, he will write a report that says where he visited, what the place looked like, describe the person answering the door etc and then say whatever old cobblers the client wants to hear but end with the line that he couldnt extract any money and wont be worth going back.

Retired police detectives do a lot of this as their observations and writing up are good. Doesnt make it any betetr or worse for that though, they have no powers that the next person in the street doesnt have.