Chef Marco Pierre White and his estranged wife Matilde are embroiled in a High Court row over money. Mrs White is asking a judge to consider jailing Mr White for not paying alimony as ordered. Mr White, however, says he cannot afford to pay what he has been ordered. He is asking for a review.
Three people have been given suspended prison sentences after they illegally evicted a tenant. When tenant Kara Cox returned home to her shared house in Rugeley, she found the security code to her floor had been changed and a handwritten note purporting to be her notice of eviction. Ms Cox was unable to access
A landlord has been taken to court after he put his tenants’ lives at risk. The unlicensed landlord was fined after renting out rooms with dangerous electrics in Slough. He was prosecuted after refusing to pay. The landlord was fined £37,000 due to a breach of management regulations and failing to comply with an improvement
A landlord from Bangor has been ordered to stand trial in the Crown Court after he was accused of harassing a tenant and causing her to leave her home. Matthew Betty from Wales, faces a total of five charges, one alleging unlawful harassment of an occupier and four of causing a tenant to leave. It
Camden Council obtained London’s first rogue landlord banning order. The banning order was against a man who repeatedly placed tenants’ lives at risk through letting out unsafe properties in the Euston and King’s Cross areas. Furthermore, he had issued some tenants with agreements in which he claimed he was the landlord, when he was actually
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has agreed to delay rules that would have eased restrictions on how solicitors can provide immigration advice to the public. According to The Law Gazette, the changes were part of a revised set of standards and regulations. Solicitors would have been able to provide immigration advice and services from any type of
A landlord in Brixton has been accused of attempting to repurpose a corridor as a flat. The flat for was seen on property website Zoopla. The property was on offer for £845pcm including bills without a floorplan. According to Zoopla the advert has had 3,591 views since it was first posted. The landlord advertised the property as
A landlord was taken to court after illegally evicting a tenant. Landlord Lee Challinor changing the locks of the property while his tenant was away for the weekend. Magistrates at North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard there had been a ‘breakdown’ in the relationship between Lee Challinor and the tenant prior to the eviction, due to
A landlord has left their tenants living in the dark after plastering a large iPhone advert across their windows without warning them. The tenants in the north east London block of flats were not informed prior to the canvas being plastered across the front of their building and they claim nothing is being done. Six
A mother and her two sons are being evicted from their home because their landlord hasn’t been paying his mortgage. Lisa Carter claims she has always paid her rent and has never fallen into arrears whilst she has lived in the property. Ms Carter, however, was shocked to discover the house had been repossessed by the bank.