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Written by Emma Lunn

Rangers striker Shota Arveladze has won a long legal battle to evict tenants who fell £42k behind on rent payments.

The Daily Record tells how Arveladze has spent three years trying to evict David MacFarlane and his wife Catriona from his luxury five-bedroom home in Newton Mearns in East Renfrewshire, Scotland.

Shota’s lawyer Jim Bauld said the couple had run up more than £42,000 of rent arrears. Shota won a judgment against the pair last year but they dragged the case out by lodging an appeal and continuing to live in the house rent-free.

They lost the appeal in June but demanded to have their case heard at Scotland’s highest civil court, the Court of Session. However Sheriff Principal Bruce Kerr QC at Paisley Sheriff Court this week told them they had reached “the end of the line” and the case did not provide “a question of law of sufficient national importance to justify the attention of three judges at the Court of Session”.

MacFarlane argued that the eviction notice served on his family was wrong because it didn’t include the name of his son Christian, 22.

Bauld poured scorn on the claims and said the couple’s latest legal challenge was “almost an abuse of process” and that MacFarlane was “living rent-free in a property and using legal process to continue that.”

The MacFarlanes now have until mid-August to leave the property. According to the Daily Record, a letting agent allowed them to move into Shota’s property despite them both being former bankrupts and having been evicted from another house.


 

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    What is the name of the letting agent ?

    Extremely doubtful the letting agent can be sued successfully for all the losses and legal costs involved unless professional negligence can be proved because of letting to tenants who had been made bankrupt in the past.

    Presumably no Rent Guarantee Insurance was in place or applied for ( and refused due to the past experience of bankruptcy by the prospective tenants ).

    • 02 August 2014 18:47 PM
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    All too typical scenario. Tenants using the process to live rent free. And the legal system is helping them do it.

    This guy will never see the money owed. Add to that the legal fees he's no doubt incurred and you can see why people would rather have their property stand empty than rent.

    • 01 August 2014 10:32 AM
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    That's OK then as he can sue the agent if the tenants don't pay which they obviously will not.

    If the defence was someone not a tenant not being named in a notice which they do not need to be why on earth was this allowed to drag on so long?

    If the tenants had legal representation presumably they are being reported to the Scottish Bar Association for abuse of position by allowing a client to mount such a frivolous appeal?

    • 01 August 2014 09:29 AM
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