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Can I use statements and evidence of previous claim as new evidence in counterclaim?
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Your long suffering LL has been putting up with your nonsense for nearly 2 years....
Maybe stick to one user name to post on future:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4380437
Sometimes your words just hypnotize me
And I just love your flashy ways
Guess that's why they broke, and you're so paid0 -
In a historic thread that's nearly a year old where you wrote under a different user name, you expressed an explicit understanding that non-payment of rent by witholding it for expenses you perceive to be caused by the landlord would result in your eviction.
You were told then by forum members that you couldn't withold rent for the expenses of phone calls to Shelter or because of delayed ESA benefit payments for a sickness you believed was caused by your landlord. You knew nearly a year ago what would happen if you didn't pay your rent and that you couldn't justify in court non-payment of rent.
So I take back my observation of your 'naivity' - you are just plain obstinate or deluded. You are on some sort of moral crusade with a weak legal basis. For some reason, your sense of hurt makes you impervious to how courts operate, how tenancies work and so forth.
Your landlord and accommodation sound terrible and perhaps this has fuelled your sense of outrage. Unfortunately, this outrage or sense of victimisation will not protect you from being evicted.
You have spent a lot of time, energy and money on your bogus defence which could have been more productively spent on your rent, finding a new place to live or job seeking.
Most tenants in shared properties that they cannot afford, or do not like, or do not get along with the landlord or do not get along with the flat-mates (you experience all 4 of these) take postive action by finding themselves different accommodation.
You seem positively masochistic about staying in a property that is causing you poverty and stress. You aren't rustling up a hurried defence in a short time, you were aware nearly a year ago that you were skating on thin ice so far as witholding rent was concerned and what this would lead to.
What is stopping you from finding new accommodation? Is it your joblessness and being a HB claimant, fear of getting a bad landlord reference? Lack of money? Belief that the judge at the possession hearing will be impressed with your speech and throw out housing law in favour of your charisma or show pity?
I will not go in details but will come back in few months to give you the feedback. If you read my previous post carefully you will see that I was sick for at least 6 months and due to the fact that I was a jobseeker when this 'sinister' happened to me, I have difficulties until present to find another accomodation (I lost the rest of my savings when moving in the present property). There is no victimisation here but real evidence in front of very dishonest people (landlords,solicitors, etc) : since they think that this dirty game can be played with every body...I have to show them that they have chosen this time the wrong person!!!0 -
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