>Nine months later, the couple has yet to receive any compensation.
>”A judge has ordered the defendant to return the funds and we have additionally referred them to the police for investigation,” a spokesperson for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service said.
>**Unfortunately, the defendant has not responded to requests to return the £90,000 and attempts to make contact have failed.**
Sounds like theft from literal scum landlord, why haven’t they been charged? You can’t just keep money you’ve been accidentally paid. What a pos. Piss poor management by the courts as well, what do you mean there’s no way for them to get money back they’ve accidentally paid and give it to the right people?
OfficialGarwood on
Phwoar, that’s some TEXTBOOK r/compoface right there!
polymath_uk on
The story is all kinds of bs. It says they bought the flat, so how is it a case against a landlord? Also it describes the building as a “historic Georgia [sic]” building. AI?
Ref-primate999 on
Courts did not expect the tenants to win, payment already set for landlords aka their priorities
bejeweledman on
The court should pay for the bailiffs’ costs as a compensation.
MACintoshBETH on
The capitalisation in the title made it read as though the couple are called Sue Landlord and Win.
Old-Amphibian416 on
Another example of everything that is wrong with this country.
AdrianFish on
When the system is overly used to rolling over and handing out to landlords
Ttthwackamole on
I’m a bit confused…. The landlord and the defendant in this case are the same person? So, did this person pay money to the Court (because they lost the case) and then the Court just returned the money to them? If not, where did the money come from in the first place?
Edit: As described in an alt source link provided by another commenter- that’s exactly what happened. Landlord settled the judgement, but the court just returned the money to him.
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>Nine months later, the couple has yet to receive any compensation.
>”A judge has ordered the defendant to return the funds and we have additionally referred them to the police for investigation,” a spokesperson for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service said.
>**Unfortunately, the defendant has not responded to requests to return the £90,000 and attempts to make contact have failed.**
Sounds like theft from literal scum landlord, why haven’t they been charged? You can’t just keep money you’ve been accidentally paid. What a pos. Piss poor management by the courts as well, what do you mean there’s no way for them to get money back they’ve accidentally paid and give it to the right people?
Phwoar, that’s some TEXTBOOK r/compoface right there!
The story is all kinds of bs. It says they bought the flat, so how is it a case against a landlord? Also it describes the building as a “historic Georgia [sic]” building. AI?
Courts did not expect the tenants to win, payment already set for landlords aka their priorities
The court should pay for the bailiffs’ costs as a compensation.
The capitalisation in the title made it read as though the couple are called Sue Landlord and Win.
Another example of everything that is wrong with this country.
When the system is overly used to rolling over and handing out to landlords
I’m a bit confused…. The landlord and the defendant in this case are the same person? So, did this person pay money to the Court (because they lost the case) and then the Court just returned the money to them? If not, where did the money come from in the first place?
Edit: As described in an alt source link provided by another commenter- that’s exactly what happened. Landlord settled the judgement, but the court just returned the money to him.