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You can't show it to the judge, tell the judge about it, accidentally leave a copy on the judge's desk, show it to the judge in a dream, .........

If it's without prejudice save as to cost, then if you win the case and got at least as much as you offered to settled for, THEN you can tell...

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All the names on the same form.

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If it's not a small claims, instruct a solicitor to go in your place.

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Section 48 LTA1987 notice doesn't change the landlord, it merely inform you of an addres in England or Wales at which notices can be served by you to the landlord.

Not having served it (at any point) would mean rent wasn't legally due, but now that the notice have been served, you're due...

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That's complete rubbish.

If you're have instructed a solicitor privately, then they're not going say the cannot go to court. They're charging by the hour, going to court is one way for them to earn money. They may well be ethnically obliged to advise you that your chance of success is low,...

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You have a solicitor who either also didn't turn up to the hearing, or you didn't instruct them to attend? What's the point of engaging a solicitor there?

Of course your landlord is going to try again, you're still not paying rent....

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I don't see any difficulties in obtaining a penalty if the landlord "return" a deposit.

The tenant is entitled to bring a claim under s214(1) of the Housing Act 2004.
I assume showing that the tenancy is AST isn't a problem.
The tenant can use landlord's return of...

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I think you're talking about the risk of getting sued for it? I meant if the OP are sued for it, if they've returned a deposit, they can't then argue that there were no deposit for the 2 or 3 tenancies that are still within limitation....

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Also, if you're threatening reporting or prosecution of a criminal offence, it helps if you correctly identify the offence in question.

Abstracting of electricity.

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The problem with that approach is that you'll be effectively admitting liability for one or more penalties for non-protection as well.



That implies to me yearly fixed term until 4 years ago then SPT....

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Your argument in court if it get there, is that no deposit was paid for the current tenancy. The deposit that was paid for the tenancy 2010-2011 wasn't protected, but that's neither here or there now. When that tenancy ended, per the condition that the deposit was paid, it was not carried over to the...

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2010 was before DPS started offering its insured scheme, so based on OP post must be custodial.

So long as PI have been correctly given before the s21 notice, should be fine from a deposit protection point of view.

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How on earth did the landlord's claim get struck out when you didn't bother to turn up?

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Tenant insure their own contents, landlord the building. We're talking about securing the building here, not compensation for the content burgled.

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I assume we're talking about broken doors, door frame, windows etc., which wasn't damaged by the tenant not behaving in a tenant-like manner, so come under landlord's implied repairing obligations?...

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Do as the landlord's agent said, just dispute it already.

Landlord's job to show they are entitled to the money claimed. Your defence is basically what you wrote, i) contractually not liable for any deductions as landlord took too long, ii) notwithstanding i, crack caused not by fault of...

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Unless the lease have a clause requiring the landlord to enforce the terms, OP is unlikely to get far....

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It's not unheard of for council to issue a charge for unpaid council tax court summons without anyone ever actually seeing a copy of the summons. Like others said above, you can't prove the tenant ever received the letter you are alleging they should had but never forwarded on.


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There's a limit if it's actually a Rent Act tenancy. Assured tenancy can be market rent.

Depends on any enforcable terms of the tenancy agreement, and when the last time the rent was raised or reviewed.