(NB: Mrs Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs, is covered in my 3 June 2008 (74 pg) Witness Statement; (4 pg) Main Points, and in my 2 January 2009 Subject Access Request to the Ministry of Justice)

Since 2003, the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal has placed on its online database - ref #992 - a so-called 'summary' of its 17 June 2003 so-called 'determination', LVT/SC/007/120/02 that contains defamatory accusations against me - and is misleading

SECTONS

• (1) The statements made about me in the summary of the case on the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal database amount to defamation of my name and of my character

• 1.1 The first part of the statement is misleading - as it FALSELY blames me for the adjournment. The 'mafia' also FALSELY accused me of being "responsible" for the action - in the process overlooking my statutory right to challenge the application - as emphasised by the tribunal.

• 1.2 The second part of the statement suggests further collusion

• 1.3 Compilation of the misleading summary was helped by the fact that the LVT FAILED TO PERFORM ITS LEGAL REMIT by NOT including a summary of the impact of its findings on the global sum demanded

• (2) By Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs - twice - refusing to include a summary of the findings in the 17 June 2003 report, as well as ignoring my request to amend the entry on the tribunal's public, online database, the London LVT has - and continues, SINCE 2003 - to defame my name and my character - in the public domain

• (3) THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED is due to...

(1) The statements made about me in the summary of the case on the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal database amount to defamation of my name and of my character

The 'very convenient' summary, of the 17 June 2003 so-called 'determination', LVT/SC/007/120/02 - on the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal database, ref. # 992, (to which I have added my comments) - since 2003 reads:

"Dispute concerned works that, following delay caused by adjournment requested by Respondent, had risen from £564,467 (US$995,400) to £592,762 (US$1.045 million) or £600,904 (US$1.060 million) from 30 June 2003 to 30 September 2003"

This is placed prominently on the first page of the 17 June 2003 report, issued by the Chair, Mrs J.S.L. Goulden JP, Mr J Humphrys, FRICS, and Dr A Fox BSc PhD MCIArb.

1.1 The first part of the statement is misleading - as it FALSELY blames me for the adjournment. The 'mafia' also FALSELY accused me of being "responsible" for the action - in the process overlooking my statutory right to challenge the application - as emphasised by the tribunal.

"Dispute concerned works that, following delay caused by adjournment requested by Respondent..."

As blatantly obvious from the section on the tribunal, the “adjournment” was CAUSED BY THE TRIBUNAL - because IT COLLUDED with 'Steel Services' aka Andrew Ladsky and his aides, Martin Russell Jones in ensuring that I was NOT supplied with the information to which I am legally entitled (LVT # 2 ; # 3 ; # 8.1.3)...

...and was forced to act as per its mandate as a result of my turning up with a surveyor, a solicitor and a barrister at the 5 February 2003 hearing - which it and its 'customers', 'SS', MRJ and Brian Gale were very clearly not expecting (My Diary 5 Feb 03 ; LVT # 8.1.5)...

... forcing the Chair, Mrs J.S.L. Goulden JP to schedule subsequent hearings - which she said she was doing "in the interests of justice" (LVT # 3 ; point 16 of the 17 June 2003 report)

Consider also point 64 of the 17 July 2003 report which states that I was "within my rights to challenge the application"

Please note that Cawdery Kaye Fireman & Taylor (CKFT) and Barrie Martin, FRICS, Martin Russell Jones, have accused me of being responsible for the LVT action - when, in fact the application was FILED BY 'Steel Services' on 7 August 2002:

•  Letter of 25 June 2003 from Lanny Silverstone, CKFT:

"...without going through the costly LVT process which has now resulted in a percentage uplift in the contract figure and a significant delay in the project" .

•  Libellous, scurrilous, 21 October 2003 'offer' from 'Ayesha Salim, CKFT:

"...and to continue to defend these proceedings is her own. Her decision to do so has caused inconvenience and expense to all the lessees of the building."

•  Equally outrageous, libellous and scurrilous letter of 4 August 2004 from Barrie Martin, FRICS, MRJ, in which he states that:

" [I] refused to pay [my] contribution and this resulted in the proceedings before the LVT which of course resulted in the considerable delay in the commencement of the work" .

Subtext of the above letters: You bitch! You've interfered with our plan: nobody was supposed to challenge the application to the tribunal. We were meant to walk away with a seal of approval for demanding that you - and your fellow leaseholders pay us £736,207 (US$1.3 million) (LVT # 4) - so that our 'dear' client, Andrew Ladsky, could build his penthouse flat and add three other flats to Jefferson House. But, thanks to the bent infrastructure supporting the residential leasehold sector, we still got away with it - and generated a multi-million £ Jackpot.

Of note, when, at the 5 February 2003 hearing, Andrew Ladsky asked the Chair: " Will Ms Rawé pay the £250,000 (US$441,000) of additional costs that will be incurred as a result of the delay in the start of the works due to hearing?" The Chair replies that I was perfectly within my rights to challenge the application made by Steel Services.

This is captured in the 17 June 2003 LVT/SC/007/120/02 report (ref. #992 on the LVT database) under point 64:

"Although she is in the minority, the Respondent's legal right to challenge the Applicant's proposal, as she has done, cannot be fettered"

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1.2 The second part of the statement suggests further collusion

"...had risen from £564,467 (US$995,400) to £592,762 (US$1.045 million) or £600,904 (US$1.060 million) from 30 June 2003 to 30 September 2003"

Hence, the second part of the statement is equally defamatory.

How on earth could the Chair, Mrs J.S.L. Goulden JP, Mr J Humphrys, FRICS, and Dr A Fox BSc PhD MCIArb, state – in their report DATED 17 June 2003 – that the “costs had risen from 30 June 2003 to 30 September 2003 to £600,904” – hence, 3 MONTHS - POST – issuing their report.

This was 'concocted' with Ladsky and his aides e.g. the 25 June 2003 letter to me from Lanny Silverstone, Cawdery Kaye Fireman & Taylor (CKFT) "...the costly LVT process has now resulted in a percentage uplift in the contract figure and a significant delay in the project"

Very, clearly, this was intended to help 'SS' rip-off the leaseholders. And it certainly proved 'very helpful' as, with the 29 November 2002 claim (Particulars of claim) so eagerly pursued by West London County Court, it must have helped secure FULL payment by the majority of the leaseholders, of the fraudulent July 2002 'service charge' demand (Pridie Brewster # 2 , # 3 , # 18) - which is a c. £500,000 THEFT - resulting in a multi-million Pound jackpot.

WHAT led the Chair, Mrs J.S.L. Goulden JP, Mr J Humphrys, FRICS, and Dr A Fox BSc PhD MCIArb, to conclude that they could state, in their report dated 17 June 2003, that "...the costs had risen from £564,467 to £592,762 or £600,904 from 30 June 2003 to 30 September 2003" – hence, make these categorical claims about so-called ‘costs increases’ 3 MONTHS – POST issuing their report?

1.3 Compilation of the misleading summary was helped by the fact that the LVT FAILED TO PERFORM ITS LEGAL REMIT by NOT including a summary of the impact of its findings on the global sum demanded

Failure by the Chair, Mrs J.S.L. Goulden JP, Mr J Humphrys, FRICS, and Dr A Fox BSc PhD MCIArbto to perform their legal remit is discussed under the main section for the LVT, under points # 4 and # 6. Failure by Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs, to address this failure is discussed under point # 7

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(2) By Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs - twice - refusing to include a summary of the findings in the 17 June 2003 report, as well as ignoring my request to amend the entry on the tribunal's public, online database, the London LVT has - and continues, SINCE 2003 - to defame my name and my character - in the public domain

My requests to Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs, to get the tribunal to perform its legal remit by including a summary of its determination in its 17 June 2003 report, and her refusals, are discussed under the main section for the LVT, under point # 7

In my 9 November 2003 correspondence to McGrath, I asked her to ensure that the summary of the case on the LVT database is amended to reflect a

"factually accurate summary of the case" as "the current version is particularly misleading" 

She replied in her 26 November 2003 letter that it had nothing to do with the LVT and that I needed to address my request to LEASE as it had responsibility for the database.

On my request to the Head of the LVTs, I had copied Nicholas Kissen, LEASE.

My request was IGNORED - and has been IGNORED since then i.e. since 2003.

Assuming that the reson is true, I find it extraordinary that Siobhan McGrath, President of the LVTs, has no responsibility in relation to what is captured on the database given that the cases are from her tribunals.

WHAT led Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs, and Nicholas Kissen, LEASE, to conclude that they could ignore my request for “a factually accurate summary of the case on their online database”?

WHAT led Siobhan McGrath, President LVTs, and Nicholas Kissen, LEASE, to conclude that they could take the decision to, since 2003, defame my name, character and reputation by having a libellous ‘summary’ of the case on their online database, accessible by the public?

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(3) THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THAT HAS HAPPENED is due to...

Mr Ladsky et. al. and their aides deciding that I (and other leaseholders) would be made to pay for this (2.4MB): the CONSTRUCTION OF A PENTHOUSE FLAT, ADDITION OF THREE OTHER FLATS AND RELATED WORKS - FOR WHICH WE ARE NOT LIABLE.

(This pack (2.3MB), as well as this pack (1.1MB) contain key evidential documents. As to the pay-off, it is evidenced by the block sale of flats in the latter part of 2006, beginning of 2007 which, of course, are in addition to the sale of the penthouse flat BGL 54 458 for £3.9 million (US$6.9 million) in December 2005, etc.)

Jefferson House July 2002

Jefferson House September 2005

 

To be more precise:

( PDF of above diagram - at February 2006)

UNBELIEVABLE! ISN'T IT?

THE LEASEHOLD VALUATION TRIBUNAL AND ITS THEN OVERALL HEAD, MR JOHN PRESCOTT, HAVE CAUSED ME TO DEVELOP THIS WEBSITE.

THIS OUTCOME IS OF THEIR OWN DOING.

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