How do I cope living next door to this awful neighbour?

missile

Your mistake was to give in to his demand

give an inch and he will take a mile

I would suggest you get a better solicitor, grow a pair and stand up to / or ignore the bully.

Davesnave

melb wrote: »

It's not always necessary to be represented in court if you are telling the truth...

Totally agree. Did it myself on a motoring charge, and got a decent result, but not everyone will be comfortable with the idea. I wasn't, but I was angry and poor.

Also, on the day, it's somewhat daunting to find that some things one wishes to say/ask are inadmissible.....The guys who do the job regularly know what not to say, or how to phrase a pointed question.

loveka

fezster wrote: »

I didn't mean to sound unsympathetic, but this is why nothing should be assumed until exchange of contracts, as nothing is binding until that point. I appreciate your circumstances are somewhat unique, but I'd advise insisting on a long enough gap between exchange and completion to allow you to put everything in place before you move.

Best of luck.

As I said, the exchange got delayed by our buyers solicitor so what should have been a month turned into 4 days. As I said, our buyer insisted we keep the completion date. Had we insisted on a month she said she would pull out of the sale. As it was, as she was renting, she was left with no where to go as there were new tenants moving in to her house.

Sometimes things don't go by the book.

moneyistooshorttomention

Davesnave wrote: »

Totally agree. Did it myself on a motoring charge, and got a decent result, but not everyone will be comfortable with the idea. I wasn't, but I was angry and poor.

Also, on the day, it's somewhat daunting to find that some things one wishes to say/ask are inadmissible.....The guys who do the job regularly know what not to say, or how to phrase a pointed question.

One thing that surprised me about courts is to find that it is apparently not allowed to make notes for oneself only (ie just as an aide memoire in order not to forget anything) unless a copy of those notes are handed to the "opposition". Errr...hello...it's not "evidence". It's just notes for one's own benefit in order not to rely on one's memory to remember everything relevant.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

One thing that surprised me about courts is to find that it is apparently not allowed to make notes for oneself only (ie just as an aide memoire in order not to forget anything) unless a copy of those notes are handed to the "opposition". Errr...hello...it's not "evidence". It's just notes for one's own benefit in order not to rely on one's memory to remember everything relevant.

One can make notes in the courtroom though, while things are going on.

scd3scd4

I had a neighbour, in fact I have one. He liked to write long letters threatening this and that. I played along for a while because I felt it therapeutic telling him what I thought and where he was wrong, what I was not going to do........however one day I realised that ignoring the fools upsets them more. They want the interaction.


Don't reply to nothing. If he stops you in the street just say best you go to court mate. Bye bye...........

lstar337

Davesnave wrote: »

Totally agree. Did it myself on a motoring charge, and got a decent result, but not everyone will be comfortable with the idea. I wasn't, but I was angry and poor.

Also, on the day, it's somewhat daunting to find that some things one wishes to say/ask are inadmissible.....The guys who do the job regularly know what not to say, or how to phrase a pointed question.

Good points Dave, but do you think it would ever have got that far?

People like to throw around threats of court action because it is a good bullying technique, but they rarely do it because firstly they know they don't have a leg to stand on, and secondly the costs.

To the OP, you need to remember that when you were told that land disputes are a pain, that they are just as much a pain to the other party. So your neighbour would have just a hard time proving the land was his (if not harder*), as you would have proving it wasn't. Yet he would have to brunt the costs for a matter of 8 inches. I doubt very much he would have.

*I see more cases of people stealing land and winning on here than the opposite. This is mostly due to the fact that people generally don't want the hassle and costs of fighting it in court.

Davesnave

lstar337 wrote: »

Good points Dave, but do you think it would ever have got that far?

No, I don't think it would have gone that far.

The Land Tribunal that my relative spent money preparing for never happened, because the other party, having no case to present, withdrew at the 11th hour. However, legal advice at £225/hr + representation he arranged, soon racks-up. Much of the former looked suspiciously like waffle to my untrained eye!:rotfl:

So, my post was meant to encourage those who might decide to oppose such a vexatious claim themselves, MSE style. I didn't find the court process half as scary as I'd imagined, just somewhat frustrating.

Yes, it was a different type of case, with the CPS bringing it, but during questioning the other party went completely to bits, so in many respects it was similar to any other spurious claim.

Beforehand, I seriously doubted matters would be fully understood, but the magistrate was excellent. I feel we got to the truth anyway, which is all anyone wants when false claims are made.