Aggressive Freeholder/Admin Fee - Help!

ValHaller

AJ, you have a fair point about onus, in that if they take you to court, the onus is on them to prove their case.

As you have been asking them to demonstrate their right to the charges and they have done everything except answer, you can be quietly more confident about being taken to court. You might lose if they produce a stunner of an argument in court. But you could request and expect to be granted costs. especially if you concede the moment the valid argument is made - on the basis that you can show that you have been attempting to get a justification from them before it ever went to court.

As defendant, you are entitled to expect that the complainant will have justified his demand for money before he takes it to court.

Average_Joe_2

As you say the onus will be on the FH to prove their case and in county court this will be on the balance of probabilities.

There are no arrears and the next period of ground rent is covered until the end of the year.

Would a FH really attempt to go to court to recover a £120 admin fee, an unreasonable sum for sending one letter.