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Landlord withholding deposit - court costs?

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  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    cinereus wrote: »
    http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2010/1224.html
    http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2011/604.html

    I apologise, I misremembered - it's not that courts don't award it, it's that the landlord can almost always avoid it so it's pretty much never paid any more.
    Those cases are 2010 and 2011.
  • cinereus
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    Those cases are 2010 and 2011.

    Correct. Are they any less relevant pieces of case law?
  • Vectis
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    Dear lord...just do a MCOL for the £150 plus any costs etc you think you're owed, as has been said many times already.

    You seem to be over complicating things. If you think you're owed it, and have evidence to back up your claim, put a claim in.
  • G_M
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    edited 7 May 2017 at 3:47PM
    cinereus wrote: »
    Correct. Are they any less relevant pieces of case law?
    Yes.

    The law has been changed twice since then.

    Localism Act 2011

    Deregulation Act 2015


    See the link proided earlier:

    * Deposits: payment, protection and return

    I updated the link following the introduction of both statutes, but as I say, if you can show me any errors, supported by relevant case law or other evidence, I'm always willing to make corrections.
  • AdrianC
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    cinereus wrote: »
    AdrianC wrote: »
    Those cases are 2010 and 2011.
    Correct. Are they any less relevant pieces of case law?
    Even notwithstanding the legislation changes that G_M mentioned, your original statement was...
    cinereus wrote: »
    But as I mentioned, I thought recent case law means that the penalty is never awarded any more anyway?
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