News from the Residential Property Investor, the bi-monthly magazine for RLA members other artilces from the April / May 2001 issue RPI news archive

Makeover for possession rules - April / May 2001

New and faster possession procedures are to apply from October.

The newly published Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2001 say that possession claims must be heard usually ('the standard period') within eight weeks of a claim being issued.

Defendants must be served with claim forms and particulars not less than 21 days before the hearing date and, in the case of accelerated possession claims of property let on an assured shorthold tenancy, any defence must be filed within 14 days of receipt of notice.

Defendants who do not files defences within the specified time will still be able to take part in hearings although the court may take this into account 'when deciding what order to make about costs'.
 

other artilces from the April / May 2001 issue

• Incentives and Disincentives
• Mixed messages on rising market
• RLA promotes understanding
• Landlords offered renovation finance
• Makeover for possession rules
• BPF urges take up of pilot deposit schemes
• Landlord cleared of manslaughter
• Strategy failure criticised
• In brief
• Brown's conversion
• Easy PC record keeping packages