Section 8 Possession

So I now have a Court Order for Possession and another for the five months rent owed plus legal fees. Tenant told his sob story and got the maximum 42 days’ notice from the judge. I’d best not say any more about that.

Lawyer says that the Council are now advising tenants to disregard the possession order and wait for the bailiffs. If the tenant left on the date which the Court orders him to leave then he will have, in the Council’s eyes, made himself intentionally homeless!

Does anyone else have experience of anything like this? Is the Council not showing contempt for the Court?

Meanwhile, you taxpayers out there are funding this guy’s UC including the rent element that he’s not paying over.

What a crazy one-sided system.