The article (‘Heritage in CCJ wrangle with broker’) was based on a CCJ by default which was issued against Heritage over claims made by Stephen Thomas that he was not paid due commission. However, according to Heritage the CCJ only came about because the Court had lost the papers and the judgement had been set aside.
The case is being reviewed on the 8 April at Cardiff County Court.
Tony Oliver, from Heritage Finance Ltd, said: “Following a discussion with Stephen Thomas a ‘joint mutual decision’ was made to terminate [Thomas’s] services in December 2004.”
Oliver denied that Heritage had failed to pay Thomas’s commission on time. He said: “Mr Thomas was always paid on time but as his sales were irregular he only received payments when a case completed. All our other consultants can and will confirm that they receive their commission payments when they are due.”
He continued: “We have never refused to pay Mr Thomas his monies due, his argument is that because he left ‘to get out of the business’ he wants, despite signing a contract, to be paid for pipeline business that has not been completed yet.
“Would any company pay out monies that they have yet to receive themselves?”
Oliver added: “We believe the outcome of the Court case will vindicate Heritage Finance.”
