Tag Archive: courts

Book Review – Enforcement of a Judgement, by Claire Sandbrook

I have always been a great admirer of Claire Sandbrook, and the way she has developed and built up Shergroup, her enforcement business (not a traditionally female friendly area of practice).   As you would expect her book, now in its 10th edition, is authoratative and thorough.
Published by Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell, this is a [...]

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Worrying Court underfunding report

I have just read a report in the Times which makes it clear that the current problems in the courts due to underfunding are only going to get worse.
The report states that Judges are having to sit longer hours and for more days, and that a recruitment ban on all but the most exceptional posts [...]

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The corporate way of dealing with complaints

A couple of weeks ago I was concerned as my online bank statement seemed to be showing me as not having any available cash when I knew for a fact that I did. The lady at the bank told me to speak to their online banking customer services department. I duly did this [...]

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Time taken to get possession of a property through the courts – an example

One of my clients has a non paying tenant living in a property in the jurisdiction of the Luton County Court. Proceedings were issued on 19 March and an order for possession was obtained on mandatory grounds on 11 May, when the tenant was ordered to vacate on or before 25 May. She [...]

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Musings on the tenancy deposit protection scheme

One of my landlord clients who has successfully defeated a nuisance claim brought by her tenants under the tenancy deposit protection legislation, has reported an interesting conversation she had with the Judge. Apparently the Judge said that the judiciary generally are unhappy with the legislation. The main reason being the automatic aspect, [...]

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Solicitor sues the court!

There is an interesting news article in the Law Society Gazette today about a solicitor who is so fed up by the appalling service provided by the Central London County court (CLCC) that he is bringing a claim in the High Court! The claim is for a judicial review to force the CLCC [...]

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More problems at the county court

I have written in the past about problems with the courts. That was about a court order having the wrong court details. In the past few weeks I have had, not only a further instance of the court / order mixup, but two very serious errors in the text of orders sent out [...]

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The Landlord Law Blog from Tessa Shepperson

Tessa is an English solicitor who specialises in residential landlord and tenant law.

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Tessa's legal services are provided via her online service Landlord Law which can be found at www.landlordlaw.co.uk. This service is provided as part of Tessa's legal practice TJ Shepperson, which is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority No 78852.

Note that any readers wishing to instruct Tessa professionally to do legal work, should do this via the Landlord Law service. Tessa's one-to-one legal work is now limited to the fixed fee services provided exclusively to Landlord Law annual members.

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The purpose of this blog is to provide information, comment and discussion. Although Tessa may from time to time, give helpful comments to readers' questions, these can only be based on the information given by the reader in his or her comment, which may not contain all material facts. Any comments or suggestions provided by Tessa should not therefore be relied upon as a substitute for legal advice from a qualified lawyer regarding any actual legal issue or dispute.

Nothing on this website should be construed as legal advice or perceived as creating a solicitor-client relationship.

Acknowledgments

This blog was created by Gill Bishop using the Headway theme. The photos of Tessa were taken by photographer Ryan Watts. Most of the other photographs on the site were taken by Tessa.

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