May 15, 2020
If you’ve rented any form of student accommodation from a private landlord and have an Assured Shorthold Tenancy, you could be eligible to make a no win no fee claim for damages against them and you could be entitled to as much as 3 times the original deposit amount.
When you legally hand over a deposit to your Landlord at the start of your tenancy, they must pay your deposit into one of three authorised deposit protection schemes within 30 days of receiving your deposit.
The government approved tenancy deposit schemes are designed to make sure you get your deposit back when you
If your landlord has not done one of the following then you may be entitled to make a claim against them:
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Take away some of the risk when it comes to making a claim. No win no fee means you only pay solicitors fees for landlord compensation claims when you are successful.
This is all information that relates to your tenancy and the landlord is legally obliged to provide to you, the tenant. It includes:
The Tenant paid a £950 deposit to the landlord and the landlord had put the deposit into an approved scheme.
However the landlord made a mistake and failed to provide the prescribed information to the tenant and this proved to be of great importance.
The landlord was ordered to pay 3 times the deposit back along with the original deposit
£2850 + 950 - £3800
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