Eviction – Judge thinks non-existant deposit should have been protected?
Finally had enough of a bad tenant – constantly behind on his rent. I issued him with a Section 21 notice in December 2021. Naturally, he ignored the deadline to leave by mid-February 2022. He took me to court for wrongful eviction.
His free legal aid for the day looked at the tenancy agreement. It had not been renewed, or rent increased, for 8 years. There was no deposit. Both of us had signed there was no deposit.
The judge only wanted to discuss the 8-year-old tenancy agreement. Nothing else!!! He decided that just because my tenant had signed that there was no deposit, it did not mean that this was the case and that the non-existing deposit should have been lodged with a Tenancy Deposit Scheme.
He was about to dismiss my Section 21 action but, relented when I pointed out the obvious. My TENANT HAD SIGNED THAT THERE WAS NO DEPOSIT. My tenant did not dispute that he had signed! We’re back to court next February, a full 15 months after initiating a “no-fault” eviction.
It seems to me that landlords not only have to put up with bad tenants, and an ever-increasing array of ‘driving-up-standards’ laws, but judges who have a weird, tenant-leaning approach to applying the law.
TJP
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What is it, exactly?
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I doubt if it is relevant. Sounds like another madcap conspiracy theory to me..
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Landlords are not seeing that the government is not in the slightest bit interested in the people of fairness. They are interested in demolishing all systems so that they can implement the new one, i.e. new monetary/social credit system whereby everyone is totally controlled (like a vaccine passport on steroids). They (globalists) are in the middle of implementing a new and more horrific form of slavery and it’s coming our way like a runaway freight train.
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What’s your solution?
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Reply to the comment left by Rennie at 13/12/2022 – 08:59Thanks for introducing me to this delusional nonsense.