Council gloats over fines on rogue landlords

There will always be those that consider our laws don't apply to them

I don’t believe any Account is secure anymore it’s so easy for digital academics / so called professionals to clean us out, that we are required to use (or we can’t comply because they make it that way) to cope with outrageous unjustified regulations, everyone getting all our Bank details and knows everything about us,

My experience has been the opposite, where the landlord gets proper legal advice and acts in a professional manner the council lose or back off. I have not examined the Harrogate cases but I suspect the council have only been successful as the landlords involved have found it cheaper and easier to pay than defend or their defence is inadequate. Most criminals and tenants have free defence provided and are much more aware of their rights, landlords have no one to turn to and are often clueless as to what to do when attacked by their council. Until this changes councils are going to have a field day against landlords.

Those who know how to defend landlords please speak out so Landlords know who to turn to in times of need or contact me and I will tell you. Do not wait or engage with the council until you have had proper legal advice as they will use any admission against you and the ability to file a defence is very time limited.
Jim Haliburton
The HMO Daddy

We were referring to different cases but same type of thing.
Congratulations and hats off for offering an out reached hand to LL’s that needs help.
I don’t have that confidence in the Courts and or Councils being part of the establishment so you are challenge Authority, that’s big and costly, virtually all LL’s pleads guilty or case is transferred to another Court where fine doubles or worse, that’s why no defence is offered or in many cases better not to attend. I have been to County Court a few times years ago and legally represented, quickly learned not to go there.
Other than that I have been to Courts as an interested party 31 times which incl’ first Tier, upper Tier, Magistrate, County, High Courts, Royal Court of Justice, ended up taking 5 years, cost a packet and became Case Law, the looser committed self harm Rest in Peace. LL’s have far too much stress inflicted on them wrongly by Councils and other outsiders with no input plus lame duck organisations with Charity Status living off our backs.

We were referring to different cases but same type of thing.
Congratulations and hats off for offering an out reached hand to LL’s that needs help.
I don’t have that confidence in the Courts and or Councils being part of the establishment so you are challenge Authority, that’s big and costly, virtually all LL’s pleads guilty or case is transferred to another Court where fine doubles or worse, that’s why no defence is offered or in many cases better not to attend. I have been to County Court a few times years ago and legally represented, quickly learned not to go there.
Other than that I have been to Courts as an interested party 31 times which incl’ first Tier, upper Tier, Magistrate, County, High Courts, Royal Court of Justice, ended up taking 5 years, cost a packet and became Case Law, the looser committed self harm Rest in Peace. LL’s have far too much stress inflicted on them wrongly by Councils and other outsiders with no input plus lame duck organisations with Charity Status living off our backs.

Michael I am not saying you are not right but what's most decent innocent people do not realise is with the courts the only thing to fear is fear itself. Spend some time with my semicriminal tenants and you realise they know they are almost exempt from the the laws that control the rest of us as they know the system. The authorities will not touch them because they are too difficult to convict. They know what to say if they ever get into problem with the authorities and know when not to speak. They have very biased lawyers to defend them who know perfectly well they are criminals and guilty. They know the system and how it can easily be circumvented.

The same applies to housing law it is so badly drafted that as one solicitor said to me as long as the landlord keeps his mouth shut he can get them off anything but it will cost £10,000 as a minimum for my fees!

The problem is that the average landlords do not know the law so do not know what they must do and when they must do it or are so pig stupid that they ignore the pleas of the council to do the work or apply for a license. For councils it is like shooting fish in a barrel. luckily most councils operate reasonably or just pick those they wish to bully. Any landlord who is prosecuted must feel like the motorist on the motorway who is given a speeding ticket for doing 71 miles an hour whilst other motorists are rocketing past at 80 miles plus. There is no consistency in approach it's more let's chop a few heads off as an example to the rest which has absolutely no deterrent effect as most landlords do not take any notice.
Jim Haliburton
The HMO Daddy