Following on from the spate of comments on this post, we have been contacted by a (thoroughly reputable) journalist who would like to write a piece on illegal eviction and, in particular, on police responses and awareness. She is looking for first hand or direct accounts of experiences of police involvement in the course of an illegal eviction. Anyone who would like to make contact — no commitment — please send us an email at the usual address (contact at nearlylegal.co.uk ) and we’ll forward it on.… Read the full post
Tag Archive for 'Unlawful eviction and harassment'
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In the July edition of Legal Action’s housing reports is the otherwise unreported Salah v Munro Willesden County Court April 2009. This was a harassment and unlawful eviction case. Ms Salah began an assured shorthold tenancy of a room on 23 March 2008 for a 6 month fixed term. Ms S applied for HB which was granted but did not cover the full rent, even after appeal. The landlord, Mr Munro had a ‘no HB’ policy, which he decided to enforce in a forthright and utterly unlawful manner. First he told Ms S to leave. Then, in May 08 his brother and girlfriend went to the property and demanded that … Read the full post
The May edition of Legal Action’s housing updates contains a report on Khan v Iqbal, Bury County Court, 13 March 2009.
Ms Khan was an assured shorthold tenant on rent of £650 pm. She lived with her children aged 15 and 12 She got into rent arrears.
The landlord and his sons interrupted the electricity supply and turned off the central heating. They cut telephone line. The landlord attended the property and verbally abused Ms Khan.
On 10 May 2008, one of the landlord’s sons entered the property and began removing the tenant’s belongings. The police were called and in their ever helpful way with unlawful evictions, assured Ms Khan … Read the full post
In Luton Borough Council v Universal Group we have the first (and almost certainly last) decision of the Lands Tribunal under the Housing Act 2004 on appeal from a Residential Property Tribunal (or RPT).
15-17 Chapel Street, Luton is (or was) consisted of a night club on the ground floor and 11 storeys of 13 residential flats rising above it. The electricity and water supply to the building had been cut off by the landlord (according to their evidence because there had been a major water leak in the building). The local fire service had also expressed some concern — according to the landlord because the fire alarm for the … Read the full post
There are several cases in the latest LAG updates that we haven’t covered and that are interesting. Thanks as ever to Jan Luba QC and HHJ Nic Madge for the LAG reports. There are two brief notes on County Court cases and a more sizeable one on Dobson v Thames Water, a Court of Appeal case on nuisance and Art 8 infringement that we had somehow missed from January and which isn’t discussed at length in LAG.
Southwark LBC v Jackson and Jackson, Lambeth County Court 27 January 2009
Mr & Mrs Jackson were elderly joint secure tenants. Mr Jackson had died, leaving Mrs Jackson as sole tenant. … Read the full post
[In a bit of an innovation, we have a guest writer for a naughty step post. My grateful thanks to M for a cracking post....]
You get the distinct impression with some that it’ll take a bit more than being placed on the naughty step for them to see the error of their ways. So it seems with the former landlord Steven Dickens. Dickens, together with his partner Yasminah Jhurry, was found guilty at Knutsford Crown Court at the conclusion of a seven week trial on multiple counts of mortgage fraud whereby £690,000 was illegally obtained. They now face the possibility of a confiscation order and jail sentence.
Dickens built … Read the full post
There were a couple of cases mentioned in the June issue Legal Action that are worth a consideration when looking at quantum in illegal eviction cases, and also to some extent in disrepair cases. Legal Action has the full details, but in brief…
Addison v Croft Preston County Court April 2008
Assured Shorthold tenant. Landlady turned up with estate agent and buyer with no notice. A fortnight later, the tenant was physically ejected by four men, with some bruising. The tenant was out, sleeping at friends and in his van for 20 nights, before obtaining an injunction for re-entry, which was complied with.
- General damages £3000 for fright and upset,
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