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Debt Help Lord Black of Crossharbour, the disgraced media baron, has launched a new round in his legal battle with Hollinger International, with a $173m claim for fees and damages.

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Counseling Debt Ravelston, a private Canadian company controlled by Lord Black, filed a lawsuit with the Ontario Superior Court after Hollinger International, the company that owns The Daily Telegraph, stopped paying Ravelston millions of dollars in fees for "management services" in November. Hollinger International has declared that these fees were excessive and has demanded in a separate court case that Lord Black and other Ravelston directors return $200m of this money.

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Consolidation Consumer Debt Ravelston is claiming fees that it says it is owed, plus money for wrongful termination of the management agreement and $150m for "deliberately and wilfully ... causing economic harm" to Ravelston by cutting off its only source of income.

Debt Settlement It is alleged by Ravelston that the aim of cutting off these fees was a "plan" to "destroy" Ravelston's 73 per cent voting stake in Hollinger International. Ravelston had debt to service but its only source of income was the management fees. A default on this debt would have led it to be stripped of the majority voting stake.

"Collection activity will continue and you might get sued." Yes, if you fall behind on your bills, your creditors will most certainly continue attempts to collect what's owed, and one or more of those creditors might sue you in civil court. But again, this criticism totally misses the mark. Collection activity is already a function of being in debt trouble. At least debt settlement allows the consumer to use the collection process to eliminate debt through negotiated compromises. Even lawsuits need not be cause for panic, since they can often be settled out of court. The only reason to allow a legal action to proceed to the point of wage garnishment, property lien, or bank levy is lack of financial resources with which to settle. And if that's the case, the debtor should be talking to a bankruptcy attorney anyway.

Debt Free The latest legal salvo follows a spectacular court defeat for Lord Black in Delaware last month, where he was seeking to defend a deal to sell his shares to the Barclay brothers.

esque thriller about a gambler who tries to settle his debt with a psychopath, but just gets deeper into trouble. John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral) stars as a gambler from the South Coast of England in debt to a rather nasty psychopath (Eddie Izzard) who chews people's ears off and sails toy boats. To pay his debt and preserve his attributes, he accepts a little contract job on the side, strangles what he thinks is his client's wife, then discovers she was the girlfriend of a crazy black Goliath named Moose.

Consolidation Debt Service Separately, a committee of journalists has been formed at The Daily Telegraph, led by the editor Martin Newlands, to try to influence Hollinger International when it decides who to sell the paper to.

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