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I have been fighting a disrepair claim with my landlord a london Council. for 17 years of disrepairs
There has already been a court case which ended in a trial in 2015 where they promised the Judge they would complete the repairs but did a few jobs and left the most important outstanding damp since 2007 and an electrical rewire they informed me in writing must be carried out to comply with the law in 2009
it all began after my roof was damaged by my neighbours in 2007. This was abandoned and failed to be repaired by landlord until 2012, where rain water seeped through my house and has resulted in my home being condemned last year as not fit for human habitation by my surveyor, who I first hired in 2012 and despite landlord stating my claims of disrepairs had no merit for 3 years they hired him for the trial in 2p15. I believe the roof has failed again, but landlord has failed to investigate this. Before 2007 my home never suffered any damp issues.
I even wrote to kier starmer before he was PM in 2022 who wrote to camdens solicitor to chase up my disrepair, they lied to him on so many things even saying I was only a tenant for ten years when I have been a tenant at my home for 35 years she said that I was very dificult and refused to let camden employees inspect my home.. another lie, I had only refused one person, the evil man who in court in 2015 had promised to carry out all the work, he even wrote to me after saying all the things he would do but did hardly anything, took a year to do very litte, but after commisioning a damp survey did NONE Of the recomendations, so I believe I was within my rights to reufse this man, in writing I said I was happy for anyone to come but him she even told kier that they would find me a decant home and carry out the repairs only when I left, but they havnt even offered me one place, they told me to bid on a homeless site, where I am constantly outbid, and the only place I was offered was in worse disrepair than mine with LOADS of damp..
I submitted a claim for disrepairs in the court in May 2022, and there was to be a Trial a week ago, but due to the utterly dishonorable conduct of landlords legal team, I suffered a heart attack a month ago for the first time and withdrew my claim a week ago just before the trial as I feared it would kill me,
I had for months asked the legal team to work with me on an index and bundle but they refused despite me being a litigant in person and being very sick which my landlord caused
when I told them about the heart attack they finally sent me an index but with nothing in it just headers for sections
I sent them my complete bundle a week later which was uptil then in chronological order, and said I was amending it to be in section soon
a week later I sent them my paginated index
they had told me 3 days before deadline for filing bundle in an email I had to remove everything from my bundle pre 2021 which for a case that was 17 years old totally was outrageous, and said they would send me their bundle soooon of what should be included..I initially wrote right back and refused
but stayed up all night and started to work and removing all I could to please them
but by 8am I had gone utterly mad and told them I was complying with their demands and amending my bundle
but i also was given an offer to settle which closed at 4pm that day and said I give up and was ready to settle
which they had asked me to make a figure for my costs, and I asked for alot for costs, but it only paid me about 50p an hour for all the work I did
.. they totally ignored my offer to settle
and then at 5.09pm with less than one working day to file they wrote to me finally sending their bundle as I had to file the next day by 4pm
But the worse thing was they had intitally given me an index where my section as the claimant was C to put my evidence. but in their demands they told me I couldnt put anything there, I had to put all my evidence at the end, when as the defendant their evidence should be at the end... but the worst bit at the end they allocated me 10 pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for ALL my evidence of 17 years!!!!!!!!!!!!???
Part of their evidence was 75 pages of my rambiling emails to them begging them over the prevoious year to please help me, to carry out the repairs. to stop lying about me, to stop terrorising me bascially the ramblings of a women they drove utterly crazy and sick
I stayed up all night working on trying to rework my bundle even more, cutting as much as I could until found it was crazy , then started putting things back in, and decided in the end to just present my evidence and in my witness statement I explained what they did, and appologised for not complying with landlords demands, but stated they were being unreasonable
So I rearanging my bundle taking things out, putting them back in going totally mad, my heart was in absolute agony by now, by1am I started printing, while still working on aligning my bundle, amending my witness statement and skeleton argument references ect..
but by 3pm I was sweating so badly and my heart felt it was in a vice, I was only 5 mins from the courts by taxi, I could have made the last mad rush, but at 3.30 I just said thats it, I cant kill myself. I give up
I still thought about filing, the next day late, but I ended up deciding to discontinue my claim and give up completely
as soon as I sent it landlords barrister emailed me saying landlord wanted to settle and could he call me later that day, I dont think they got the discontinuance intime
so anyway I agreed to settle and asked him to call
he didnt
but emailed me at 4pm saying his clients wanted to discuss things and he would get back to me the following day
Over the night I decide I was going to fight this again
I wrote to him my plan
that I would settle for 7k more than they offered when previously I asked for 12k extra
if they refused
that I was going to the head of the council asking him to settle this claim
and failing that going to ask kier starmers team to help me
and failing that
I was going to go back to court
then he never responded
2 days later the evil landlords solicitor emailed me
saying we could charge you costs, but will kindly not ask you for anyting if you drop your claim
and do nothing
After this I contacted head of council hes ignored me,
kier starmers team who use to respond within 24 hours and kept saying really sympathetic things and said until your claim is out of litigation we cant do anything
but I wrote to them now ten days ago and theyve also blanked me
I was hoping to give these two parties 3 months before trying to go back to court
which would also give my heart some much needed time out
as I am really badly dyslexic as also very sick
But now I think I should just go back to court and ask now to start a fresh claim as the old one was such a mess, with them constanly lying about things saying I hadnt filed things, or did it late, which I didnt I had permission.
For eg stating I didnt file a seperate schedule of loss
but I did it like my solicitor who I had at start
only seeking rent renumeration
and was only seeking 15-25k
yet when I filed landlord refused to offer a penny,
and after 7 years of my claims worth as filed in 22 and was able to claim back 6 years prior to that,
only when my home was condemend landlord offered 7k which isnt even one years of rent?
Ive developed a dealy auto immune disease in 2019 after I carried out 6 months of extensive damp works to my home as Camden refused to do anything, and were ignoring all my requests. A day after I completed this work, I awoke with hands and feet so swollen you couldnt see any bones, and my limbs were all burningI have developed an array of issues, where before 50 I was a healthy person who rode my bike everyday, but I had to give it away due to the pain in my back. I have developed a constant sore throat which sometimes my tongue and mouth burns and goes numb, I suffer problem with breathing, swelling in my brain, my eyes, my liver, and most recently a swelling in my heart and lungs giving me extreme symptoms of a heart attack on 7.7.24 for the first time, where bloods showed my immune system was clearly in crisis from the A&E Blood tests. My son who had no physical problems until a couple of years ago, began coughing occasionally, but now he is constantly coughing and has problems breathing, and in the last couple of years,His bedroom and mine are the worst damp rooms in our home
so what are peoples thoughts on my rights and chances
theres so much more
courts really messed up loads of things
but I will raise these delicately
for eg at trail in 2015 judge who previosly ordered me to limit 300 pages of correspondance to 20 pages, and 100 pages of pictures to 20, then when I filed a bundle with 600 pages..
She claimed she couldnt find my bundle and gagged me from discussing anyting pertaining to my bundle
so then everytime I said anyting lanlord looked through my bundle and said no she cant discuss that its in her bundle and judge agreed
and then landlord lied about loads of things
2 days after trial court confrrimed in writing they did recieve my bundle
Many thanks sorry so long
There has already been a court case which ended in a trial in 2015 where they promised the Judge they would complete the repairs but did a few jobs and left the most important outstanding damp since 2007 and an electrical rewire they informed me in writing must be carried out to comply with the law in 2009
it all began after my roof was damaged by my neighbours in 2007. This was abandoned and failed to be repaired by landlord until 2012, where rain water seeped through my house and has resulted in my home being condemned last year as not fit for human habitation by my surveyor, who I first hired in 2012 and despite landlord stating my claims of disrepairs had no merit for 3 years they hired him for the trial in 2p15. I believe the roof has failed again, but landlord has failed to investigate this. Before 2007 my home never suffered any damp issues.
I even wrote to kier starmer before he was PM in 2022 who wrote to camdens solicitor to chase up my disrepair, they lied to him on so many things even saying I was only a tenant for ten years when I have been a tenant at my home for 35 years she said that I was very dificult and refused to let camden employees inspect my home.. another lie, I had only refused one person, the evil man who in court in 2015 had promised to carry out all the work, he even wrote to me after saying all the things he would do but did hardly anything, took a year to do very litte, but after commisioning a damp survey did NONE Of the recomendations, so I believe I was within my rights to reufse this man, in writing I said I was happy for anyone to come but him she even told kier that they would find me a decant home and carry out the repairs only when I left, but they havnt even offered me one place, they told me to bid on a homeless site, where I am constantly outbid, and the only place I was offered was in worse disrepair than mine with LOADS of damp..
I submitted a claim for disrepairs in the court in May 2022, and there was to be a Trial a week ago, but due to the utterly dishonorable conduct of landlords legal team, I suffered a heart attack a month ago for the first time and withdrew my claim a week ago just before the trial as I feared it would kill me,
I had for months asked the legal team to work with me on an index and bundle but they refused despite me being a litigant in person and being very sick which my landlord caused
when I told them about the heart attack they finally sent me an index but with nothing in it just headers for sections
I sent them my complete bundle a week later which was uptil then in chronological order, and said I was amending it to be in section soon
a week later I sent them my paginated index
they had told me 3 days before deadline for filing bundle in an email I had to remove everything from my bundle pre 2021 which for a case that was 17 years old totally was outrageous, and said they would send me their bundle soooon of what should be included..I initially wrote right back and refused
but stayed up all night and started to work and removing all I could to please them
but by 8am I had gone utterly mad and told them I was complying with their demands and amending my bundle
but i also was given an offer to settle which closed at 4pm that day and said I give up and was ready to settle
which they had asked me to make a figure for my costs, and I asked for alot for costs, but it only paid me about 50p an hour for all the work I did
.. they totally ignored my offer to settle
and then at 5.09pm with less than one working day to file they wrote to me finally sending their bundle as I had to file the next day by 4pm
But the worse thing was they had intitally given me an index where my section as the claimant was C to put my evidence. but in their demands they told me I couldnt put anything there, I had to put all my evidence at the end, when as the defendant their evidence should be at the end... but the worst bit at the end they allocated me 10 pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for ALL my evidence of 17 years!!!!!!!!!!!!???
Part of their evidence was 75 pages of my rambiling emails to them begging them over the prevoious year to please help me, to carry out the repairs. to stop lying about me, to stop terrorising me bascially the ramblings of a women they drove utterly crazy and sick
I stayed up all night working on trying to rework my bundle even more, cutting as much as I could until found it was crazy , then started putting things back in, and decided in the end to just present my evidence and in my witness statement I explained what they did, and appologised for not complying with landlords demands, but stated they were being unreasonable
So I rearanging my bundle taking things out, putting them back in going totally mad, my heart was in absolute agony by now, by1am I started printing, while still working on aligning my bundle, amending my witness statement and skeleton argument references ect..
but by 3pm I was sweating so badly and my heart felt it was in a vice, I was only 5 mins from the courts by taxi, I could have made the last mad rush, but at 3.30 I just said thats it, I cant kill myself. I give up
I still thought about filing, the next day late, but I ended up deciding to discontinue my claim and give up completely
as soon as I sent it landlords barrister emailed me saying landlord wanted to settle and could he call me later that day, I dont think they got the discontinuance intime
so anyway I agreed to settle and asked him to call
he didnt
but emailed me at 4pm saying his clients wanted to discuss things and he would get back to me the following day
Over the night I decide I was going to fight this again
I wrote to him my plan
that I would settle for 7k more than they offered when previously I asked for 12k extra
if they refused
that I was going to the head of the council asking him to settle this claim
and failing that going to ask kier starmers team to help me
and failing that
I was going to go back to court
then he never responded
2 days later the evil landlords solicitor emailed me
saying we could charge you costs, but will kindly not ask you for anyting if you drop your claim
and do nothing
After this I contacted head of council hes ignored me,
kier starmers team who use to respond within 24 hours and kept saying really sympathetic things and said until your claim is out of litigation we cant do anything
but I wrote to them now ten days ago and theyve also blanked me
I was hoping to give these two parties 3 months before trying to go back to court
which would also give my heart some much needed time out
as I am really badly dyslexic as also very sick
But now I think I should just go back to court and ask now to start a fresh claim as the old one was such a mess, with them constanly lying about things saying I hadnt filed things, or did it late, which I didnt I had permission.
For eg stating I didnt file a seperate schedule of loss
but I did it like my solicitor who I had at start
only seeking rent renumeration
and was only seeking 15-25k
yet when I filed landlord refused to offer a penny,
and after 7 years of my claims worth as filed in 22 and was able to claim back 6 years prior to that,
only when my home was condemend landlord offered 7k which isnt even one years of rent?
Ive developed a dealy auto immune disease in 2019 after I carried out 6 months of extensive damp works to my home as Camden refused to do anything, and were ignoring all my requests. A day after I completed this work, I awoke with hands and feet so swollen you couldnt see any bones, and my limbs were all burningI have developed an array of issues, where before 50 I was a healthy person who rode my bike everyday, but I had to give it away due to the pain in my back. I have developed a constant sore throat which sometimes my tongue and mouth burns and goes numb, I suffer problem with breathing, swelling in my brain, my eyes, my liver, and most recently a swelling in my heart and lungs giving me extreme symptoms of a heart attack on 7.7.24 for the first time, where bloods showed my immune system was clearly in crisis from the A&E Blood tests. My son who had no physical problems until a couple of years ago, began coughing occasionally, but now he is constantly coughing and has problems breathing, and in the last couple of years,His bedroom and mine are the worst damp rooms in our home
so what are peoples thoughts on my rights and chances
theres so much more
courts really messed up loads of things
but I will raise these delicately
for eg at trail in 2015 judge who previosly ordered me to limit 300 pages of correspondance to 20 pages, and 100 pages of pictures to 20, then when I filed a bundle with 600 pages..
She claimed she couldnt find my bundle and gagged me from discussing anyting pertaining to my bundle
so then everytime I said anyting lanlord looked through my bundle and said no she cant discuss that its in her bundle and judge agreed
and then landlord lied about loads of things
2 days after trial court confrrimed in writing they did recieve my bundle
Many thanks sorry so long
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