Unpaid invoices and money owed.
Work done, goods supplied, or a debt unpaid, and you need to recover it.
For business
Not every dispute is worth a solicitor. All of them are worth handling properly.
When you're running a business, a dispute is a cost and a distraction you didn't choose: an unpaid invoice, a contract that's gone wrong, a claim you have to answer. Portia helps you deal with it properly, structured the way a court expects, without reaching for a solicitor every time.
The economics
The problem isn't the dispute. It's what it costs to deal with it.
Most commercial disputes sit in an awkward middle: too modest to justify hundreds of pounds an hour in solicitor fees, but too valuable to write off. So businesses do one of two things. They overpay for representation on a matter that didn't warrant it, or they walk away from a matter they had every reason to pursue. Neither is a good outcome.
Portia is the third option. It gives you the structure a solicitor would bring, the recognised basis for your claim, the elements it needs, the evidence to support it, so you can handle the matter properly yourself, at a fraction of the cost. You still decide when a solicitor is genuinely worth it. For everything else, you are no longer choosing between overpaying and giving up.
The situations
The disputes Portia helps with.
Portia is built around a set of common commercial disputes, whether it's a single matter you didn't want or the kind that keep coming. If yours is one of these, it can help you structure it:
A contract that's gone wrong.
An agreement broken, not delivered, or one you were misled into.
Damage, property, or goods.
Your property damaged, your land entered, or goods of yours withheld.
Recovering a property from a tenant.
You're a landlord seeking to recover possession of a residential property.
A claim or judgment against your business.
A claim you have to answer, or a judgment entered against you that you want set aside so the case can be heard.
Value
A fraction of what the alternative costs.
Portia is priced against the alternative: what the same procedural work would cost you in solicitor fees. For most commercial disputes that is a fraction of the amount, which is what makes handling a modest matter properly worth doing at all, rather than writing it off.
There are no per-hour surprises and no open-ended bills. You can see the plans, and exactly what each includes, on the pricing page.
The foundation
The same, whoever you are.
The way Portia works, the safeguards it holds to, and how it looks after your documents are the same whoever you are. If you haven't seen them yet:
How Portia works →The safeguards →How your data is handled →
Portia is built for businesses that would rather handle a dispute than hand it over. If that's you, this is where to start.
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