Back in 2006 my mother rented a flat were i was living with her, after 2 years my mother went back to portugal i stayed at the property, because the rent was to high i have triyed to ask her to come to london to terminate the contract but she never did so i decided to leave the property, i didnt provide the landlord a month in advance, the contract is not in my name, now the landlord is saying that is going to take me to court because i own him 1 month rent but he still have got 1 month deposit left by the original tenants, can he take me to court? what should i do?

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Welcome to BE.

Where is the property Portugal or London?

The flat is in London

I'll move your post into The Moving Back To The UK forum. I'm sorry but I don't know if anyone will be able to help you. There are probably other forums out there that will be able to answer your questions better than a British Expats forum.

I wouldn't think he could sue you as you have nothing in your name but i'm not a lawyer so don't take my word for it! There is a forum called the 'Consumer Action Group", forum that would be able to help you out with that stuff if there's no one on here! Here's the link

http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/

check in with them too, good luck

Thanks Mate...i will check the link

You could try contacting your local Citizen's Advice Bureau:

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/

He would be claiming under breach of contract. There was no written contract so he would try to imply a contract. If you had been paying rent then you were acting as if you were in a contract and so he could claim compensation.

Notwithstanding that - tell him to get lost and apologise to your mum for losing her deposit.