Commercial property let 7 months behind in rent had a court date for telephone hearing, both tenant and solicitor for tenant did not attend asked Judge to make a judgement but Judge decided to hold over for 21 days to find out why neither attended and said he would set a new hearing date at the earliest available date after 21 days. Cant win either way.
Just in case something serious happended to the tenant or tenants lawyer, thejudge has given directions accordingly. What you dont want is a judement, only for the tenant to make an application notice have it set aside.
The Judges decision was only based on possible covid reasons without considering why both parties or alternative parties could not respond, the tenant was not a covid reason, not sure about the lawyer.
This was the 3rd time a hearing had been set so now we await the 4th hearing and it has taken nearly 2 years to get there after the section 25 was superseded by the covid act coming into play. It is now 8 months without rent from a company that are working and the credit reports show they have the funds to pay, just jumped onto the band wagon as they are in the construction industry and not retail, entertainment, resturant or pubs sector to which i believe the act was set up to help and protect.
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