7th
Jun 2017
An organisation is asking the government to set up a new type of court
that wholly specialises in private rented sector housing issues to
accelerate the present ‘slow, complex, and underfunded’ judicial
process.
The new court's aim would be to help tenants and private landlords to seek justice much more quickly such as drastically reducing the current forty three weeks, that it take takes landlords to evict a non-paying tenant and retrieve their property back.
The call for the specialist court is one of six major points that the organisation has outlined in its own manifesto prior to the general election. Their 'paper' also requests that the government should consider their stance on their punitive landlord tax policies and instead start to encourage more investment into the private rented sector by being more 'pro'.
The organisation wants the government to introduce the specialised courts and that they should 'mirror' the Residential Property Tribunal, thus doing away with expensive lawyers and their protacted legal arguments where issues, in the main, can be ruled upon quickly.
The following statement appears on the association's website: “We know this model works. Scotland has been using a similar specialist tribunal successfully for some time for housing disrepair matters and has now expanded it to cover possession matters as well. Ireland also has a successful specialist housing disrepair Tribunal.
“We have invested a great deal into the existing Residential Property Tribunal structure but continually limit its operations to matters involving HMO licensing."
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