Government insists courts can cope with Renters’ Rights Act

There is no Civil Justice For Landlords.

Sackham also said in the last week..`The backlog of criminal court cases could take “nearly 300 years” to bring back to levels seen before the COVID pandemic without reforms to cut jury trials, a justice minister has said.`
EPC infringements, RRA disputes, LA pursuit of L/L`s, etc..non will be heard in a just & timely way. The courts have been underfunded for 25 years. Early release of offenders is after 30% of time served, suspended sentences take more administration than jail but cheaper..etc.
We really don`t a properly functioning court justice system at all.

The Government has no intention of enabling Landlords to regain Possession of their Properties. Why the Rent Dodging House Bashing Tenant is still as possession It`s the Landlords Problem not the Councils,

Because it takes so long many Tenants will be tempted to use the rent over Christmas , or for Holidays once there three months in arrears there is little chance they will catch up.

However What if it was Two Months arrears. Then mandatory Possession two weeks later . That would help ensure the tenants are motivated to keep up with payments . I have had a few Possession Cases and in every case it was won`t pay rather than can`t Pay.

Absolute and utter nonsense.

From personal experience, despite the fact that staff are extremely hard working in in the courts, there is a limit to what they can do: and they are being asked to do more and more. The inevitable result being that there ARE delays: it is common sense and unavoidable.

If you empty a bath at a litre a minute but leave a tap running at a gallon a minute: it will overflow!!!

Like most Politicians, Sackman is gaslighting the public and landlords suggesting what is, or appears better for the government, when the facts are different.

However, they say it because, how can others “effectively” challenge them. Repeating a lie does not make it true.

We have heard similar from other politicians who ignore the facts because to state them would illustrate and identify a problem they were warned about but chose to ignore.

There politicians need to listen to those who know what is happening rather than those who think they do.

Having said that, it would make little difference as they will state only what suits their purpose, whether or not it is true.

Reply to the comment left by Northernpleb at 01/07/2026 – 11:54
If there are rent arrears, landlords should swiftly make Money Claims Online. The tenant is unlikely to have a defence. Tenants will realise that there are consequences to not complying with financial obligations.

how does money claim online work has anyone used it was it succesful

Didn’t Mr Beadle say that he welcomed the abolition of Section 21?

Repossessions will inevitably decline over time anyway because landlords will become so risk-adverse that they won’t rent to anybody they have the slightest doubts about. The days of giving a tenant in need of a roof over their head a chance to get back to normality, knowing that they could be swiftly dealt with if things went wrong, are truly over. We simply won’t be able to afford to take that risk in future.

Reply to the comment left by Oonagh at 01/07/2026 – 20:54
Look it up https://www.gov.uk/make-court-claim-for-money

Reply to the comment left by Peter Merrick at 02/07/2026 – 02:52
Exactly. My rent protection will only cover the affordability with earned income, so I’m obviously selective who I take. I’ve just took a couple of, they had affordability and my rent protection insurance covers that however I requested a guarantor as a back up or I wouldn’t have taken them. Nothing to do with them it’s just more protection.
This is the first time since the RRB I’ve had a tenant ready to move in. I was super picky. Any dodgy financial and they can’t be touched, any bad vibes and it’s a no, I declined so many applicants because I chose the ones I chose.
Not a perfect system but it’s the best I can do.
The days of taking a chance on someone who needs it are well and truly gone.
No chances, no risks, just good vetted tenants with a clean history of financials and referencing or it’s a no

Also the amount of applications that get put in after I’ve done a viewing with them and then ccj’s pop up was insane, I had one open and honest and she was great but I had 3 that seemed to chance and hope it doesn’t show up on the credit checks.

Hard vetting is key nowadays

Of course this guy who is the head of the Landlords Association did not voted as told by the members but voted for despite the members voting against and then follow it by putting a lot of pressure on the government to pass the law and to introduced it as soon as posible by contently making statements to that effect as he was advertising already all these expensive in cost but cheaply in achieving, courses of life after the banning of section 21. so not just his courses but all the other 30 plus companies that has been built with the members fee payments and the more punitive the law is towards the landlords the most companies he built- no sharing the profit with the members. So OpenRent, Safe-toRent, Estate Agent associate, lawyers Associates that decipher the complicated laws he helped with, EPC certificates, Electrical, gas certificates, etc.. You name it. He is making a huge profit with his companies and in order to blackened the Small Landlords keeps referring to the rogue and criminal landlords constantly. I wonder how will he describe is traitorous behaviour to the people who he hypocritically represent. :[email protected]”