Deposit Not Returned

MrJB wrote: »

Kathiravans - I would suggest doing some research on the company in question and the director you refer to. But simple facts are: - the company you refer to is effectively worthless. The director who's name you mention has 59 open directorships, 63 retired and 20 closed. Many of the active companies have gazette notices as well as recent adverse credit reports - all academic as he will not be personally liable anyway.

Hi, Does this mean if I go to court and win the case to get my security deposit back, is there any chance that I will get the money back, since the director has already a bad history. Please advise what the bad history of the company and the director actually means to me.

Hi All,

I am planning to proceed for court action. As per my research I understand I need to follow below steps. Could someone please validate if these steps are correct and clarify my doubts on these steps please.

Step1:

I will visit below website

gov.uk / make-court-claim-for-money/overview

In this case, my claim would be for deposit amount which is not yet returned. This is £1089.1. Hence the online money claim fees would be £70. Is that correct?

So the total claim would be £1089.1 + around £20 interest + £70 as court fees which comes as £1179.1. Please note this cheating by the landlord has caused me severe stress and depression. Please inform if I can claim any cost towards this mental agony I am undergoing. What is the guideline for this?

After your advice, I’ll submit the claim.

Step2:

After I make this court claim, then the court sends my claim to my Defendant. In my case With the past experience of ignoring letter, I am sure the defendant will not respond for this also. The court provides 14 days to reply.

Step3:

In the scenario where the defendant doesn’t respond after 14 days I will ask the court to order the defendant. Is there any separate fee for asking the court to order the defendant? What is the fees and where it is mentioned please?

Step4:

The court will call for hearing which anyways my defendant will not respond. Here how many days the court will provide for the defendant to respond?

Step5:

In case where my defendant doesn't respond, I need to ask the court to enforce the order which is called as Bailiff (Am I correct?). It seems here I need to pay again a court fees. Please inform how much would be the fees? Please also mention the website link where this fees is mentioned.

Step6:

Hope then the enforcement decision would be sent to Bailiff team. How many days Bailiff team would take to recover my money and pay me back? In my case I will request the court to freeze my defendant's Barclays bank account to which I paid my security deposit and the rent. Is that fine? Will the bailiff team would freeze the defendant's bank account and take the money from the account and give to me. Is it possible?