Housing law news and comment
As regular readers may recall, the limit for disrepair claims to fall into small claims was under review. Proposals were made to raise the current limit of £1000 to £5000. Regular readers will recall that I thought that this was a Bad Thing.
According to the Law Society, the Government will leave the disrepair limits at £1000. This is a Good Thing.… Read the full post
Musing over the Court of Appeal judgment ([2007] EWCA Civ 236) today, it struck me that the case does something rather dramatic to … Read the full post
I was scanning the Court of Appeal judgments, waiting for White v Knowsley, when this came up:
London & Quadrant Housing Trust v Ansell [2007] … Read the full post
Having posted on the costs raked in by Beresfords and others from the Miners’ Compensation Scheme, and having suggested that it was the DTI’s problem for setting the fixed costs, it naturally turns out that I should have done my homework, as the DTI had a High Court action underway seeking to reduce the payments and claw back payments already made. (Times article)
And Lo! the DTI won. A bit. Per case payments reduced from £1,769 plus VAT for each deceased claim and £1,561 for each live claim to £1,192 and £1,103 (presumably plus VAT) respectively. The DTI is apparently looking for £74 million back.
Each case was … Read the full post
While Natwest is quite happy to have the threat of a bankrupting costs order hang over Tom Brennan (see below), it appears that the bank can come over all coy and confused about costs when it means settling a claim.
According to this BBC story (via CharonQC and Martin), Natwest settled a claim for charges (overdraft, bounced cheques and direct debits) for £24K and £12K interest with a cheque for £35,987.94.
What is interesting is that the letter accompanying this cheque denied any liability, expressed confidence in victory at trial, but said the settlement was offered because
“Although our client is confident that it will be successful at a final
Entirely thanks to Enquiring Minds, I have found Feedity, which will turn a web page into a RSS feed where it lacks one. Given the lack of RSS feeds for all kinds of legal and government sites, this is a very useful thing if it works as advertised.
I have added a trial (sorry) feed for Court of Appeal civil judgments to the right. But I can see all kinds of possibilities.… Read the full post
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