You or your clients may have, in the past, used debt collection agencies and found them impersonal or ineffective. Or used law firms and found them expensive. The debt recovery team at Hall & Wilcox is focused on the speedy and effective recovery of our clients’ substantial or high-volume debts. We do this by weighing up the costs of pursuing the debt with a realistic appraisal of its full recovery.

Our proactive approach to debt management ensures we can advise you on the most effective strategy to secure the best outcome possible. We provide the full range of debt recovery services, including:

• advising on prospects and procedural options;
• drafting statutory demands and claims;
• conducting negotiations, where appropriate;
• instituting and conducting recovery proceedings;
• enforcing judgements/securities by issuing a writ of execution, garnishee order, or by the appointment of a
• receiver/administrator/mortgagee in possession; and
• providing representation in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Magistrates’, District and Supreme Courts.

• how to conduct litigation in all jurisdictions;
• the laws of negligence, nuisance and contract, and statute law (Competition and Consumer Act, Goods Act, Fair Trading Act, Wrongs Act, etc);
• compliance with the Private Agents Act; and
• enforcement procedures, such as sheriff’s warrants, bankruptcy, attachment of earnings etc.