BREAKING: Blackpool County Court is first to adjourn Coronavirus evictions
The announcement, which is likely to be followed by other county courts handling Section 8 evictions, is ahead of the government’s promised emergency laws.
Blackpool’s County
Court is the first in the UK to suspend all Section 8 evictions despite the
fact that the government has yet to introduce its emergency legislation.
In a statement released today, the county court says all new eviction proceedings at the court will now be adjourned until the beginning of June. It is believed that many more county courts will now follow suit, effectively bringing any new eviction processes to a standstill in England within a few days.
“Landlords now have to busy themselves with ongoing cases but there will be many adjournments and this was the first that came through yesterday from Blackpool County Court on a section 8 case,” says Paul Shamplina of Landlord Action.
“If landlords are experiencing adjournments, they need to provide the court order to their lender so that they can ask or their mortgage payments to be suspended.
“We are still
awaiting the government’s decision as to when possession claims have to be
stopped at court for a three-month period.
“But it wouldn’t surprise me if the courts soon shut down for a period of
time. We are unknown territory. Our advice line at Landlord Action has
been very busy advising concerned landlords.”
The full text of
the Blackpool County Court statement
UPON IT BEING
RECORDED that:
(i) There is a public health emergency caused by the Covid 19 pandemic and that it is likely to have economic consequences on the continued occupation of residential dwellings by those who have not or cannot meet the charges associated with occupation;
(ii) That the declared intention of the Government is to pass emergency legislation to prevent evictions of those who rent residential property during the pandemic;
(iii) That the Government has invited lenders to support borrowers by way of mortgage holidays’ in respect of mortgages secured on residential properties;
(iv) That enforcement of any possession orders is unlikely to be in the interests of justice at this stage WITHOUT A HEARING IT IS ORDERED that:
1. The hearing of possession proceedings listed
for 1st April 2020 is vacated.
2. The proceedings will be re-listed on the first open date after 19th June
2020, unless by no later than 4pm on 12th June 2020, the court makes a further
order.
3. The court having made this Order without a hearing, the parties’ attention
is drawn to the right to apply to have it set aside or varied.
Any such application must be made formally by application notice (Form N244,
fee payable) within 7 days of the date of service of this Order.
4. Any application made pursuant to paragraph 3 above will be listed for
hearing by telephone as urgent business not earlier than the third day and not
later than the seventh day after the application is received by the court.
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