Reports of two prosecutions brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSW) brought against landlords who failed to comply with the gas regulations
Category Archives: Law case report
Landlords and agents prosecuted for breach of regulations
Prosecutions of landlords and agents who failed to comply with various housing laws. Some of the fines are light others are substantial.
Local Authority held liable for damage done by tenant
A local authority is ordered to pay compensation to a landlord after recommending a nightmare tenant
Careless letter converts assured shorthold tenancy to assured tenancy
A housing association case where an AST was converted to an assured tenancy when a notice was sent to the tenant in error.
Bad landlords – three successful prosecutions
Reporting on three court cases where landlords were successfully prosecuted by their local authority.
Tenancy deposits – two recent cases
Courts it seems are still making awards in respect of breach of the tenancy deposit regulations in a few cases, if the circumstances permit …
Landlord convicted of harassment by text
We have all learned from Ben Reeve Lewis’s writings on this blog, how hard it is to get a conviction for harassment against a landlord. Well hats off to Sheffield Council whose officers obtained a conviction against landlord Steven Loxley in May at Sheffield Magistrates Court. His tenant, Ms Muscroft, had lost her job and…
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