Landlords need the courts for recovering possession from bad tenants. So anything which is likely to increase delays is bad for landlords
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Court fees to rise on 4 April 2011
Just a short note to say that the Court fees are set to rise in April. For example The fee for issuing proceedings for possession will rise from £150 to £175, unless the online procedure is used, when it will remain at £100 A standard application where no other fee is prescribed goes up from…
Court closures and their effect on repossessions
County Court closures. As you will probably know, one of the cost cutting exercises carried out by our government is the closure of many of the smaller courts around the country. I reported on this here. The effect of this will probably be to slow down an already creaking system. I reported here on the…
Problems with the Courts
Have you been having problems with the courts recently? I thought a post on this would be a good idea as I have had a couple instances recently where the courts have been plain wrong in the information they have given. Often non lawyers think that if someone from the court tells them something it…
Court closures opposed by Residential Landlords Association
RLA County Court closure campaign A campaign has been launched by the Residential Landlords Association, regarding the threatened closure of a large number of courts. The Ministry of Justice claims that many of the courts are underused, have out of date resources, (including inadequate facilities for disabled people) and that it would be more efficient…
The Novice Guide to Court Hearings – index
This was a seven part Saturday Slot series of posts on Court Hearings (in the UK) which ran in June/July 2010. The seven parts were as follows: Part 1 : Introduction This introduces the series, sounds a few warning notes, and outlines the sort of hearings this series will be looking at. Which is mostly…
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Solving disputes in the county courts – Pt 2
Last week I started looking at the Ministry of Justice report on the procedures in and use of the County Courts. However it is quite a long report so I decided to split my post into two parts. This is the second part, but you might want to read the other part here first. Enforcement…