Tenants Sue Landlord and Win. Court Accidentally Hands Money to Landlord: ‘Pure Madness’

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1. >Nine months later, the couple has yet to receive any compensation.

   >”A judge has ordered the defendant to return the funds and we have additionally referred them to the police for investigation,” a spokesperson for Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service said.

   >**Unfortunately, the defendant has not responded to requests to return the £90,000 and attempts to make contact have failed.**

   Sounds like theft from literal scum landlord, why haven’t they been charged? You can’t just keep money you’ve been accidentally paid. What a pos. Piss poor management by the courts as well, what do you mean there’s no way for them to get money back they’ve accidentally paid and give it to the right people?

2. Phwoar, that’s some TEXTBOOK r/compoface right there!

3. The story is all kinds of bs. It says they bought the flat, so how is it a case against a landlord? Also it describes the building as a “historic Georgia [sic]” building. AI? 

4. Courts did not expect the tenants to win, payment already set for landlords aka their priorities 

5. The court should pay for the bailiffs’ costs as a compensation.

6. The capitalisation in the title made it read as though the couple are called Sue Landlord and Win.

7. Another example of everything that is wrong with this country.

8. When the system is overly used to rolling over and handing out to landlords

9. I’m a bit confused…. The landlord and the defendant in this case are the same person? So, did this person pay money to the Court (because they lost the case) and then the Court just returned the money to them? If not, where did the money come from in the first place?

   Edit: As described in an alt source link provided by another commenter- that’s exactly what happened. Landlord settled the judgement, but the court just returned the money to him.

10. So the landlord was ordered to pay £90,000, which they did, to the court, but instead of the court giving the money to the tenant, they handed it back to the landlord, and have been unsuccessful in their attempts to get the money back. Seems like something that’ll be resolved one way or another, but the court should be looking into additional compensation.

11. A spokesperson for the court said: “This is the *one thing* we *didn’t* want to happen.”

12. Seems easily fixable by police raid, arrest, seizure of everything he owns as proceeds of crime, and prosecution for theft.

    The tools for dealing with theft are right there. The UK is a joke.

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