Originally Posted by Janet Plank:
“Chrissie cannot give Diane a week to move until she has been to court to prove that Diane's behaviour towards her landlord was threatening, or worse, and she would have to prove it. That would take months. The scripts being written for Diane, a great actress, at present are stupid and I am surprised that she is acepting this.”
Exactly, even under the badly named accelerated eviction which can only be done via a Section 21 the notice needs to be served two months before and have expired before you can bring legal proceedings then you have to wait for a court date and as I have said before Section 8 is just as lengthy
A lot of the wait after paperwork is the court date and then Judges are not so keen to side with a Landlord and of late many have picked holes in the legal docs as the notice wording changed slightly and they deem many not to have complied with correct procedure.
Even the changes to the anti social behaviour side of eviction still takes time and unless you are relying on Grounds 5 or 8 of an S8 there is no guarantee a court will side with the landlord even with proof
But as we know this is a soap so dramatic licence and to whip the viewer up into disliking Chrissie that little bit more.