Thursday, 6 September 2007

To court or not to court

The Dude [myself] has been involved with my local council Wandsworth in a fight over how much money dey collect on any given bill. Since I am a Council Lessee I've realised wot the lease percentage [.3%] means in real terms this is the amount lessees pay towards their Service Charges/Major Works bills.
Well people the amount in my view [calculations] means I am paying three pounds for every one pound spent! Which is extreme since by law one is not allowed to make a profit from these charges. It has meant dat for a while I paid nuffin to the Council since dey did not want dis news to get out! Fine up until a couple of years ago den dey saw how ill I was at an Area Panel meeting. I am/wuz a chairperson of an acredited Residents Association whence the Area Panel meeting which are held every three months.
Well dey decided on seeing how ill I was [will explain why I was sick at a later date] Dat [that] dis [this] would be a good time to take me on [dey were right] and decided to take me to court for the monies owed to dem.
It worked out very badly for me since with the local court behind the Council the judge found in Wandsworths favour on his own initiative!!! Dat means he found in Wandsworths favour without any representation by me basically...Anyway it all comes down to me having to pay the monies owed plus thousands in costs after I was misrepresented by numerous solicitors. I had to take the case to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal who rushed me through despite the fact I was recovering from a Chemotherapy treatment anyway the long an short of it all is dat the Tribunal
found in Wandsworth Boroughs favour even tho I was not present??? Yeah work dat one out!!!
Case ref no LON/00BJ/LIS/2006/0034-put dat reference number in the Tribunals website an one will see my case. Well it meant I had to prove my case about wot the lease percentage meant in real terms, so I employ a firm of Auditors to prove my case....Wot happens is the auditors were refused access to the Councils records under the Freedom of Information Act?? Impossible and illegal. So my solicitor allows Wandsworth to provide the figures to the auditors! It meant dey were given totals with no breakdown, figures paid by lessees but with no flat number or block number dey refused to even acknowledge any communication by my auditors for two weeks!! The auditors were forced to use the same accounting method as the Council which is archaic and meant dat the auditors would arrive at the figures Wandsworth wanted them to since the only way to work out the figures was by using their accounting method???
It all boils down to me being in possesion of false lease percentages provided by the Council to the Tribunal along with a whole lot more, yet I cannay do nought cos no one will back me since the Council are run by a bunch of Freemasons [in my view] So I need to find some honest people who will back me...An dat is no easy task believe me. Well now I am in the unenviable position of having to fight the costs incurred in fighting my corner.
The Law Society say it is up to me to take the solicitors to court if I believe dey have misrepresented me. More money an how am I to know whether the solicitors representing me will not do the same [misrepresent me] Anyway one small victory is the Law Society on looking at the charges I'm being asked to pay £8,500 got it reduced to £3,500 inc VAT but I still have to pay the auditors another £2,000 [already paid £3,000] plus VAT 17.5% on the £5,000.
Well I thought okay pay the solicitors since then [den] I can get to see this audit report which I have never completely seen yet am expected to pay for???
So I say will I get to see the Audit report before being expected to pay their bill [auditors] An the reply is no that will be withheld until I pay the bill!!!.......Well fuck them is all I can say. One is expected to pay for something one has never seen? Nah don't think so somehow this case raises more questions then it answers in my view.
So the fight goes on an on an on which is really draining for someone on Invalidity Benefit due to memory problems fatigue etc.
At least dis is down in my blog for the world to see.....HELP ME SOMEONE OUT THERE
Do you care about the fact people are in real hardship paying these ridiculous bills. If yor not intimidated by Freemasons [like me] Then speak to me cos I've got a complete package here dat should be headline news. Hell I've even written in my Will that all monies raised by the sale of my flat are to be spent in looking at my dispute with Wandsworth Council London. One might tink dats a bit extreme but I've had documents go missing found myself being watched, had my telephone tapped [anyone can do it just ask a PI] So the fight goes on I will refuse the deal given to me from the Law Society which means it will go to a higher authority to be assessed which will take three months. Das good it gives me time to get my act together an drum up some support/allies cos anyone who has a grudge against Wandsworth Borough or can see wot is happenning in the borough [hospitals closed services cut to the needy etc] Talk to me basically
okay people had my rant for now. All I can say is I've gotta be insane namaste y'all.
The Dude

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