The joy of the small claims court

[Captain Willard]

My daughter’s landlord tried to withhold her deposit for no good reason. Put in a £35 claim at the small claims court, got a judgement in her favour and the fucker paid up within hours. I’m now buzzing and trying to think of somebody else I can sue 

[Clem H Fandango]

I would never claim that I'm small.

[Clem H Fandango]

Give me back my member money you cunt?

[manwiththestick]

26 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

My daughter’s landlord tried to withhold her deposit for no good reason. Put in a £35 claim at the small claims court, got a judgement in her favour and the fucker paid up within hours. I’m now buzzing and trying to think of somebody else I can sue 

Maybe he saw the photo of your bin at home.

[Pureblood]

Was the deposit protected by the Tenancy Deposit Scheme?  Why did you need to issue court proceedings?

[Carvalho Diablo]

I've twice sued companies and I've twice beaten the bastards. A local tiling company for about £500 and Time UK electronics (based in UAE) and that was for just over a grand if I recall correctly.

 

Time actually ignored the judgement so I hired bailiffs to seize goods to the value of the judgement from their UK premesis in Birmingham.

 

That was great tbh, because the goods seized go up for auction at a fraction of their value, so the bailff has to take goods worth far more than the size of the judgement in order to satisfy it.

 

The bailff actually phoned me when he was on site there and was asking if there was anything in particular I'd like, like a 65 inch telly or laptops etc. The Time employee was totally unprepared and sounded horrified, eventually reaching for the chequebook to pay the fine / settlement plus costs, rather than have his warehouse rooted through, business disrupted and goods seized.

 

 

[Clem H Fandango]

21 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I've twice sued companies and I've twice beaten the bastards. A local tiling company for about £500 and Time UK electronics (based in UAE) and that was for just over a grand if I recall correctly.

 

Time actually ignored the judgement so I hired bailiffs to seize goods to the value of the judgement from their UK premesis in Birmingham.

 

That was great tbh, because the goods seized go up for auction at a fraction of their value, so the bailff has to take goods worth far more than the size of the judgement in order to satisfy it.

 

The bailff actually phoned me when he was on site there and was asking if there was anything in particular I'd like, like a 65 inch telly or laptops etc. The Time employee was totally unprepared and sounded horrified, eventually reaching for the chequebook to pay the fine / settlement plus costs, rather than have his warehouse rooted through, business disrupted and goods seized.

 

 

Is this how you come by the red buckets?

[DalyanPete]

1 hour ago, Captain Willard said:

My daughter’s landlord tried to withhold her deposit for no good reason. Put in a £35 claim at the small claims court, got a judgement in her favour and the fucker paid up within hours. I’m now buzzing and trying to think of somebody else I can sue 

Well in.

Used it a few times and never lost.

[Creator Supreme]

The title of this thread sounds like the name of a Half Man Half Biscuit album.

[Arniepie]

I got had off by some cowboy builders and got absolutely no where 

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

My daughter’s landlord tried to withhold her deposit for no good reason. Put in a £35 claim at the small claims court, got a judgement in her favour and the fucker paid up within hours. I’m now buzzing and trying to think of somebody else I can sue 

We had the same at university- landlord decided to just hang on to the deposit because he wanted an extra month's rent over the summer. It didn't even get as far as the small claims court, as soon as he was informed we were claiming, he paid up that day.

[dockers_strike]

1 hour ago, Mudface said:

We had the same at university- landlord decided to just hang on to the deposit because he wanted an extra month's rent over the summer. It didn't even get as far as the small claims court, as soon as he was informed we were claiming, he paid up that day.

Yeah the silly cunt now has a CCJ against him. Or maybe he's already got one and thought fuck it, another wont make much difference?

[Mudface]

2 hours ago, dockers_strike said:

Yeah the silly cunt now has a CCJ against him. Or maybe he's already got one and thought fuck it, another wont make much difference?

I really don't know what he was thinking. Our lease was up at the end of June and he'd signed a form saying everything was fine in the house, no damage etc. We went to the letting agent initially and he was as baffled as us. Daft bastard.

[Pureblood]

Landlords will often try it on, knowing that some tenants won't have the stomach for the fight.  They are parasites.  

[Clem H Fandango]

Just now, Pureblood said:

Landlords will often try it on, knowing that some tenants won't have the stomach for the fight.  They are parasites.  

Has your landlord touched you? Show me where on the rapey bear and I can help.

[Captain Willard]

14 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I really don't know what he was thinking. Our lease was up at the end of June and he'd signed a form saying everything was fine in the house, no damage etc. We went to the letting agent initially and he was as baffled as us. Daft bastard.

I think a lot of buy to let landlords were hit by the changes to the tax regime. 

[Mudface]

48 minutes ago, Captain Willard said:

I think a lot of buy to let landlords were hit by the changes to the tax regime. 

This was in 1993...

[VladimirIlyich]

14 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

I think a lot of buy to let landlords were hit by the changes to the tax regime. 

Some may say it serves them right for exploiting the lack of affordable housing,but we can all make up our own minds on that.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

20 hours ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I've twice sued companies and I've twice beaten the bastards. A local tiling company for about £500 and Time UK electronics (based in UAE) and that was for just over a grand if I recall correctly.

 

Time actually ignored the judgement so I hired bailiffs to seize goods to the value of the judgement from their UK premesis in Birmingham.

 

That was great tbh, because the goods seized go up for auction at a fraction of their value, so the bailff has to take goods worth far more than the size of the judgement in order to satisfy it.

 

The bailff actually phoned me when he was on site there and was asking if there was anything in particular I'd like, like a 65 inch telly or laptops etc. The Time employee was totally unprepared and sounded horrified, eventually reaching for the chequebook to pay the fine / settlement plus costs, rather than have his warehouse rooted through, business disrupted and goods seized.

 

 

 

 

Carvalho gloating after

 

[Carvalho Diablo]