Oct 26, 2020 | Other News
26 Oct 2020 Two landlords have been fined over £100,000 after 35 people were found living in what a judge called “criminally improper conditions.” Arun Bajaj and Antonio Ferraiuolo let three small two-bedroom flats in a converted semi-detached Victorian home in...
May 11, 2020 | Fire, Other News
11 May 2020 “If you have a fire in your home, the most important thing you can do is get out immediately. A home can be completely engulfed in flames within a couple of minutes. The safety of you and your family is more important than your possessions.”...
Dec 12, 2019 | Other News
11 Dec 2019 Almost 40 per cent of battery-powered smoke alarms failed to activate in residential fires in England in the past year – a level virtually unchanged in nearly a decade, the Local Government Association has revealed. Latest figures show a fifth of...
Dec 3, 2019 | Civil Penalty Fines, Tribunal - FTT
29 Nov 2019 The First Tier Property Tribunal has thrown out an appeal by Islington Landlord Iqbal Ahmad. The property, a flat in Holloway Road London N7 was inspects as part of the licence application process and he accepted a licence with conditions pertaining to...
Dec 2, 2019 | Banning Order, Court Fine, Prohibition Order, Rent Repayment Order
02 Dec 2019 A rogue landlord has been fined more than £150,000 after failing to rectify safety hazards in a property he let. Two years ago Rehman was ordered to pay in excess of £340,000 after illegally converting houses into bedsits. A rogue landlord has been fined...
Nov 20, 2019 | Other News
20 Nov 2019 “We ignored the fire alarm because it goes off all the time” said many of the 211 students who were incredibly lucky to escape death as a fire ravaged their student residence at The Cube in Bolton on Friday 15th November 2019. Many others, who spoke to the...
Sep 23, 2019 | Court Fine
23 Sep 2019 Wrexham council discovers that HMO is unlicensed and that conditions at the property include inadequate fire safety provision. A landlord and her letting agent, 28-branch Countrywide chain Beresford Adams, must pay a total of £32,300 in fines, costs and...
Jun 14, 2019 | Other News
12 Jun 2019 The developer of the block involved in a devastating fire in Barking last weekend had carried out remedial fire safety work just weeks before flames ripped through the building. Bellway, the developer of Samuel Garside House, was carrying out a programme...
May 17, 2019 | Success, Case Study
By Des Taylor 15 May 2019 One of Landlords Defence’s clients had an inconceivable situation yesterday with a major manufacturer of interconnected smoke and heat detector fire alarm units. Our client had found problems some days ago with the units not working properly...
