Urgent Advice needed.

clutton_2

its now in the hands of the court... spend your time preparing your case, getting the papers and evidence in clear order so that if they judge asks you a question you can find the answer quickly and competently... try not to worry

judges are well able to spot landlords who "try it on"

sj1977

I'm a bit worried as the company who were my landlord also have their own solicitor on site, so they may try and find legal ways out of things.. and I end up being their local branch of B&Q

sj1977

been a year since i last posted. received letter from court send to ex-LL, that if they didn't reply by x date case would be thrown out of court.

Never heard a thing since.

Then out of the blue a letter saying I didn't turn upto court, apparently they got in touch and the case was going ahead. I assumed by not hearing anymore it was over with. Because of this courts gave in ex-LL favour.

£120 a month to ex-LL. He disputed this and wanted more. I called past my old house which wa still vacant and even though we have lost the case no carpet had been fitted etc... I put this in writing to court before we met over his dispute of the amount we were repaying.

Result!!! .......... for him. Court didn't seem bothered and duly increased payments by a further £80 so now I pay £200 to ex-LL.

I love the justice system!!

I was going to leave the whole non-protection thing as I thought it had died a death, time to start that back up.

BitterAndTwisted

Unfortunately as you were the one being taken to court and risking having a nice CCJ attached to your credit-record you should have been the one to follow it up. Not hearing anything is not the same as something not happening.

Do you see why you should have started proceedings for not protecting your deposit now?

sj1977

I put it down to me being naive, and not having to do a court thing before. Though when ringing the court for advice throughout the last few months everything I was told by them, didn't happen either.

Such as yes bring documents or just explain there was a misunderstanding etc.. not given a platform to explain but there you go.

Still, I've kept the email confirmations for the non-protected deposit so will go down that route now, or is there a time limit?