Unethical agent

Guest101

mrkjd wrote: »

The agent does have a duty of care - Not legally speaking. towards a tenant as he took monies to process our information - Which they did and that was concluded prior to the tenancy starting. and has a role which provides a function to us as representative of the landlord. He also has a Code of Practice to abide by. - The code of practice will not prevent the agent passing information to the Landlord, infact agency law requires them to act in the best interests of the principal.

What I am trying to achieve is to demonstrate the poor attitude of this agent - I fail to see a poor attitude (atleast on the agents behalf) in respect to the handling of our tenancy and whether this episode serves as a further example of that attitude - it doesn't in the sense of passing on information to the principal, and the legal representative there of. . It I not about impact on the SCC. I understand that there may be no "loss" resultant from his action but that does not make what he did correct. - What they did is fine. Honestly you have no case in respect of this email. Hence posting here for opinion tO see if there is any legislative cover for actions like this.

There is, the agent MUST act in the best interests of their client.

Guest101

HouseBuyer77 wrote: »

Without more specific details of your small claims case and what you sent to them it's hard to really judge the situation.

Though remember the agent is the LL's agent. They are there to represent the LL's interest. Sending them an email/letter is in some ways as good as sending the LL themself the email/letter.

It seems the solicitor involved deleted the email once it was forwarded to them and then recognised you sent to the agent by the mistake?

Frankly sounds like a storm in a tea-cup. As anselld said if the claim has any merit it doesn't really matter if you disclose part of your discussion about it to the agent. It's not as if this is a complex case and you've just disclosed part of your defence strategy!

It's a non-case as far as I know, as the OP is claiming revenge eviction, even though the LL correctly waited 6 months from receiving the improvement notice (or similar)


- see OPs other (now locked) thread

mrkjd

Guest 101, the SCC is not in regard to revenge eviction but thanks for your other post breaking down my questions. It seems the consensus is that I have little grounds to add this matter to my broader case.

Guest101

mrkjd wrote: »

Guest 101, the SCC is not in regard to revenge eviction but thanks for your other post breaking down my questions. It seems the consensus is that I have little grounds to add this matter to my broader case.

The problem is ofcourse we don't know what your SCC is about?


You must understand though, small claims courts deal with money.


You haven't lost anything by them forwarding your email.

Miss_Samantha

Thank you to whomever reported my post as inappropriate.

For the record I had just suggested that OP should perhaps spend more time checking his emails before sending them and less discussing them on internet forums.
If anyone felt hurt by that, well in the adult world truth hurts sometimes.