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I'm in a civil dispute (as a defendant litigant in person in England) with a building contractor. The Claimant is trying to recover 4k I withheld due to serious defects with his work (gas & electrical safety breaches, leaking toilet and shower...and a lot more), delays, and unfinished works.

He admits in his claim that there are defects and unfinished works, but says in his reply to my defence and counterclaim that the money is for subcontractor VAT. However, 2 of the subcontractors he has submitted VAT invoices to me for are not VAT registered, he added VAT on one of his company invoices but his company isn't VAT registered, lots of the invoices are heavily redacted so I can't even see a breakdown of the works, and one invoice is charging VAT on 8k for a single job he quoted 1.3k for in his contract.

His solicitor is refusing to unredact due to "confidentiality", and they've ignored every request I've made asking them to confirm the basis of the VAT claims since Jnauary 2026. I was able to unredact one invoice myself and it's addressed to a different company owned by the Claimant (I've checked Companies House and cant see any arrangement between the 2 companies).

I suspect the other redactions are hiding works done on other projects/properties.

The solicitor also haven't provided inspection of disclosure documents since my first request 2 months ago (I'm submitting a disclosure application shortly).

I've reported the VAT issues to HMRC, but can anyone please let me know if this is something I should be reporting to the SRA, and the Claimant's insurer who are funding his claim?

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I am a Litigant in Person suing a property management Limited Company in the Small Claims Track for £1,500 regarding two distinct breaches:

1. An Article 12 Subject Access Request (SAR) failure. The statutory one-month deadline expired with zero response or extension notice. They finally sent a late, partial response (making it 2 months late initially), but that response was non-compliant and falsely claimed they held 'no personal data' on me. Because they are still withholding my historical files and emails, they have now been in continuous statutory breach for over 5 months total.
2. An Article 32 security breach where they uploaded a raw, unredacted block insurance ledger (containing financial claims of 40 to 60 neighbours) to a shared ombudsman portal, which I accessed.

The Defendant just rushed to submit their formal Defence, and it contains three major flaws:

- They completely omitted any mention or defence of the 5-month SAR breach.

- They signed a Statement of Truth claiming the spreadsheet contained "no financial data" but only my name and flat number. I have the file showing £60k - £80k in detailed claims, loss-adjuster notes, and household names.

- They attached historical emails as evidence to argue about an irrelevant property rent issue, accidentally proving they completely lied in their May SAR response when they stated in writing they had permanently deleted all my historical files. I also continue to get group emails from them about the apartment complex, although this should come from my letting agent only now as they said my email had been deleted as part of the SAR.

We have both submitted our Directions Questionnaires and selected "YES" to a determination without a hearing (Paper Trial).

My questions for the forum:

1. Since they completely left the SAR breach undefended, will a judge treat that as an automatic admission of that breach in a paper trial?
2. How heavily will a District Judge penalise the Defendant's overall credibility once I prove they made a false statement under a signed Statement of Truth?
3. Based on how judges usually handle these low-value data claims, what is a realistic, reasonable compensation amount I could expect to get, both if we settle it during the 1-hour mediation call, or if it goes all the way to a judge for a decision on the papers? Given that I have a real history of identity theft that made the stress of this breach much worse, how do judges typically view that kind of background impact?

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