I am shocked at the arrogance of Kevin Day when he claims that the requirment of courts in the South-east for applicants to serve skeleton arguments is “no doubt designed to intimidate lay representatives” (4 March, page 22).
He should remember that subjecting a person to an antisocial behaviour order is not something to be entered into lightly and as a matter of course.
The various issues need to be thoroughly explored and the witness statements tested.
The antisocial behaviour industry seems to think that any restriction or impediment to granting an ASBO is somehow antisocial in itself rather than being a necessary check and referee to a dispute.
In the 1980s the refrain that unemployed people were credited with was “’gis a job, I can do that”.
In 2005 for some housing officers it is “’gis an ASBO, I want one of them”.
Gerry Glyde, Comment via Housing Today website
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Housing Today
