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There must be some kind of way out of here…

By NL on 12/02/2011. 0 Comments

Or a Naughty Step special edition.

Another Naughty Step post? So soon? Well, yes. I have no control over how these things crop up and not only does this case feature some jaw droppingly bad behaviour, the demise of a whole business legal model and some innovative law, it features Nearly Legal’s own Francis Davey in a starring role (and one that is entirely angelic, I hasten to add, as if it could be possibly be otherwise). Granted there is the drawback that the case has nothing to do with  housing law, but that minor hitch aside, how could I possibly resist? So, I wrote a post about the götterdämmerung of … Read the full post

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On the naughty step – a bag of wind

By NL on 30/01/2011. 28 Comments

As Dave has explained, the Supreme Court decision in Yemshaw v LB Hounslow brought the definition of violence in Housing Act 1996 into line with other statute and Government guidance, in particular with the accepted family law definition of ‘domestic violence’.

But not for the Daily Mail. For the Mail, the real issue was set out in their headline “Shout at your spouse and risk losing your home: It’s just the same as domestic violence, warns woman judge“. It was a five judge Supreme Court, so that should be “warn 4 men and 1 woman judges”, but it is of course the woman judge that is undermining … Read the full post

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On the Naughty Step – drop the dead donkey redux

By NL on 19/08/2010. 84 Comments

There is very hot competition among the cast of this sorry episode for being placed on the step. This is also a story which has already been commented on by Tessa Shepperson of Landlord Law, who indeed played a small – and entirely virtuous – part. But Tessa is basically a nice, fair-minded person, and for that reason, her posts are entirely free of bile. I, on the other hand, am not necessarily nice, and rarely lacking in bile to spare.

For a taster of what is to come, here is the first foray of Suzy Butler into the media – the local paper. Note the ‘squatter’ motif, although … Read the full post

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NFN? On the naughty step

By NL on 19/11/2009. 1 Comment

May I introduce Mr Trevor Hobden, lately of Canada House Partnership, Grammar School Road, North Walsham, Norfolk and lately a solicitor. Mr Hobden is to be noted for his balanced approach to billing.

Mr Hobden has been struck off the roll and will have to close his new firm, Convey First in Norwich, because of his dishonest (and failing that, grossly negligent) actions. A few samples of Mr Hobden’s billing:

£1,500 was removed from the legacy of one couple when the appropriate bill would be £650.

One estate was charged £13,571, and the money was taken from the client’s cash in 14 transactions without a bill being sent.

The … Read the full post

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Way beyond the Naughty Step

By NL on 07/09/2009. 0 Comments

Some private landlords treat tenants as a nuisance. A sitting tenant can get in the way of a quick deal or reduce the value of a property on which the landlord is hoping to make a quick buck. Thanos Papalexis found himself in this situation when Charalambos Christodoulides, the resident caretaker of a derelict warehouse complex in Kensal Rise, refused to leave, potentially causing problems for a £2 million property deal. Mr Papalexis didn’t resort to illegal eviction, though. He had another solution for the problem presented by Mr Christodoulides.

He had him killed.

In fact, Mr Christoduoulides was tied to a chair, tortured, then strangled.

Mr Papalexis, of … Read the full post

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On the naughty step

By NL on 30/07/2009. 0 Comments

naughty step badge For this Naughty Step, we’re going trans-atlantic. A warm welcome to the Step for Horizon Group Management, a property owner/management firm from Chicago.

Horizon cannot be said to lack a pioneering spirit (or, as we shall see, a snappy way with a soundbite, catastrophically counter-productive, but snappy). For Horizon are the first firm to bring a defamation claim against a tenant, for a tweet on Twitter.

what is twitterFor those of you looking puzzled or slightly anxious at this point, Twitter is the terribly au courant micro blogging service in which anyone can post a message of up to 144 characters, which will instantly be read by anybody ‘following’ them. Do … Read the full post

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On the naughty step – on tour

By NL on 17/01/2009. 0 Comments

Nearly Legal’s naughty step has recently taken the complicated, slow and interrupted trip from Norwich to North Wales. It is is with reluctance, several changes of train, and a painful recovery of repressed traumatic memory that we now find ourselves in the East Midlands.

Yes, Nottingham, home of Robin Hood, who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Or, alternatively, home of the (now ex) director of operations, Tyron Brown who gave a larger council home to the (subsequently suspended) vice chair of the ALMO holding all former council properties, Chris Burnell.

In fact redistribution of wealth was going on on a dramatic scale in Nottingham between … Read the full post

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