Last November, our publisher wrote about an interesting test case, before the Supreme Court, which demonstrated what could happen when European human rights law was applied to a landlord's attempt to evict an anti-social or non-paying tenant. (You can catch up, if you like, here.) Today, the Daily Mail - under the slightly more hysterical headline...

... picks up on the story, with news of a new ruling as applied to a council tenant in Hounslow. She's apparently been receiving (the equivalent of) £15,000 a year in housing benefit, but hadn't been passing the money on in rent (an argument, if ever we've heard one, for housing benefit to go directly to landlords). She managed to avoid eviction on human rights grounds, and has agreed to pay the £3,536.39 in arrears at £5 a week... in other words over 13 and a half years. Good lack with that.

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