Legal help anybody

[Murphman]

My son is the 'lead' tenant in his rented house, 4 students. The house has an old TV in the corner, they genuinely don't ever watch it and the landlord was supposed to remove it but didn't, you can guess what happened next?

 

They initially received a letter from TV licencing saying no further action would be taken and then today he received a summons, he's lost the letter so it's not looking good. The fear is he gets a criminal record, there are currently proposals backed by Chris Grayling that criminalisation for non payment of TV licences ceases and it becomes a civil matter.

 

He's studying law next year and is absolutely terrified this could affect an application. also. if the law is change does anybody know whether this is likely to be retrospective?

 

He's scared to death something so trivial could f*ck up his career, quite frankly I share his fears.

[PhilM]

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Edited February 26, 2015 by cymrococh

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