Very firmly esconsed on the step are Sutton Estates, managing agents on Merseyside. These charmers came up with the idea of putting notice boards outside the homes of tenants in rent arrears, proclaiming it to be the home of a ‘rent dodger’. Sutton Estates believe this to be an effective and reasonable way of getting people to pay their arrears. Perhaps sensing that some people might be a little, how can I put it, ‘unhappy’ about this approach, one landlord, Pat Slattery, whose property is managed by Sutton said “It’s not a medieval witch-hunt. The signs will not apply to hardship cases, but there are people who take the rent … Read the full post
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I meant to post about this one a month ago but got sidetracked. A case for any civil legal aid people to note.
Funding Certificates are means-tested. Funding issued by practioners under devloved powers can be and is yanked by the Legal Services Commission if they later calculate the client as outside the eligible range. Unsurprisingly, this gives rise to quite a few disputes.
Rent is taken into account in the means test. Relatively recently, the LSC, in its wisdom, decided that the rent figure was rent actually paid, not rent payable. This produced the glorious result of people facing possession proceedings for rent arrears not getting funding to … Read the full post
The Court of Appeal judgment in Riverside suggested that if rent increases hadn’t been levied pretty much exactly as per any provision in the tenancy agreement, those increases were invalid. Riverside had levied rent increases later than the date specified in the tenancy agreement. This was a rent arrears possession case and the arrears were reduced considerably by this.
It wasn’t something that came up very often – I’ve not seen a case – but was always worth checking, particularly in ground 8 cases.
Now the House of Lords has allowed Riverside’s appeal and largely overturned the Court of Appeal. (Riverside HA v White and another [2007] UKHL 20… Read the full post
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