A head tenant has been jailed for 16 weeks after he changed the locks on a property that was illegally sublet to 35 men. Ilie Florin Dragusin evicted the men and removed their belongings from a converted three-bedroom semi-detached house. Brent council officers found the 35 tenants to be living in substandard conditions in an
A dog walker has been found guilty of fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds in disability benefits after being secretly filmed throwing a ball for her pets. Sandra Tipton, 53, alleged that her physical condition, which includes dizziness and a ‘frozen shoulder’ had not improved since she first claimed the benefit in 2013. The jury at
A man was fined for illegally changing the locks on a house rented by a family with two young children. Belfast landlord Ciaran Doherty was fined £500 in court on Tuesday for unlawfully depriving the family of occupation of a house they were renting from him. Both the couple’s children were under two years old
An ex-wife has been granted £115million in one of the UK’s biggest ever divorce settlements. The woman and her former husband cannot be named for legal reasons after Justice Baker concluded there was “little if any” public interest in identifying the chief executive of a company behind a “very well-known product.” The case was heard
The Home Office said foreign medics are to be excluded from the government’s cap on skilled migration. NHS bosses said the move would be a “huge relief” to health trusts. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it was “extremely welcome.” The Royal College of GPs said it was a “great step forward.” The cap sets the
The Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett delivered a speech on ‘the age of reform’, at the fifth BAILII lecture. He discussing the courts modernisation programme and highlighted the online divorce pilot scheme, saying that it was ‘working well.’ “The (online divorce) pilot has now moved to general availability since 1 May. Over 600 applications were
A landlord from Peterborough who housed tenants, including young children, in an overcrowded and dangerous property has been fined after he failed to make improvements. Raashid Alyas was fined £4,000 and ordered to pay another £1,000 in other costs at Peterborough Magistrates’ Court after admitting a number of offences relating to the home. The court
The Supreme Court considered whether a businessman should increase maintenance to his former wife 16 years after their divorce. Last year Graham Mills was ordered by the Court of Appeal to increase monthly maintenance payments to his former wife, Maria, from £1,100 per month to £1,441 for life as she was “unable to support her
A landlord in Immingham has been fined £1380 after he was found renting a house to multiple occupants without a licence. Yordan Kaloyanov, 37, was taken to court by North East Lincolnshire Council after its housing enforcement officers and Humberside Police raided a house on Pelham Road. Kaloyanov was found to be renting the property
A landlord from Devizes has been fined £11,600 for exposing tenants including a family with children to dangerous living conditions. Ansar Butt, 39, admitted 24 breaches of the Houses of Multiple Occupation Regulation and four counts of failing to undertake works following the issue of an improvement notice. The trial at Swindon Magistrates Court found