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You are here: Home / News / Forfeiture / LKP wins press awards for two years running

LKP wins press awards for two years running

April 18, 2014 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Sebastian O'Kelly receives the LSL Property Press Award for Scoop of the Year 2014 from TV presenter Julia Somerville
Sebastian O’Kelly receives the LSL Property Press Award for Scoop of the Year 2014 from TV presenter Julia Somerville

March 17 2014: Sebastian O’Kelly, Campaign against retirement leasehold exploitation chairman and director of the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership, last night won a press award for his campaigning journalism over leasehold for the second year running.

O’Kelly won the “Scoop of the Year” category for his report into the scandalous forfeiture of the £800,000 flat belonging to Dennis Jackson, at Plantation Wharf in Battersea.PressAwardsdouble

Thanks to the efforts of O’Kelly, Martin Boyd, LKP co-director, and Sir Peter Bottomley, the forfeiture was overturned. The dispute, which began over £9,000 in unpaid service charges, has cost Jackson more than £100,000.

The report can be read here

In winning the award, O’Kelly defeated competition from the Sunday Times, Inside Housing and Estates Gazette.

The award was presented at a ceremony in central London hosted by Julia Somerville, the TV news presenter. She said:

“Please acknowledge the work of Sebastian O’Kelly, from The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership and of course the former property editor of the Mail on Sunday for over 12 years, this year’s Gold Award winner for his scoop on Plantation Wharf.

“The case of leasehold pensioner Dennis Jackson, who would have lost his £800,000 flat in Battersea had not Sebastian himself taken up the case, persuading politicians and the CEO of Prudential to intervene. For his trouble, he was thrown out of Wandsworth County Court by the judge hearing the case. Gutsy stuff!”

Coincidentally, the award category was sponsored by the Property Ombudsman, which will shortly be one of the ombudsman services to which all leasehold managing agents will have to belong.

O’Kelly said:

“Saving Dennis Jackson from total ruin was an LKP team effort and thanks must go to Peter Bottomley, who did not hesitate to wade in to do the necessary even though Jackson was not a constituent.

“The case demonstrates the injustices of the leasehold system in stark clarity.

“It is extraordinary, and a major issue, that the decision on lifting Jackson’s forfeiture – his entire life assets – was held in a closed court from which the public (myself and Martin Boyd) were ejected.

“Yet the deputy district judge did this without a second’s hesitation. In what other area of law would such a decision with such consequences have been possible, except leasehold?

“The rest was equally unedifying: the pleased-with-themselves lawyers who racked up outrageous fees; the remorseful freeholders insisting on meeting LKP to say that they did not know how to stop what they had started and did not want to take away a pensioner’s £800,000 home; the residents of Plantation Wharf, who at a certain point could have stopped this litigation but sat on their hands.

“Jackson’s fellow leasehold litigant Rosemary Irving, and former chair of the residents’ association at Plantation Wharf, died a week before the final LVT case was heard. 

“The awfulness of this case needs to be read in entirety, and the OFT should note the wrongs that can happen in leasehold.

“Jackson is now completing the sale of his flat and, although £100,000 poorer, he can carry on with the rest of his life.

“He doesn’t need to give Plantation Wharf a second’s thought, and it certainly doesn’t deserve it.”

LKP wins Best Online Editorial 2013

Sebastian O'Kelly and Andrew Neal, the veteran newspaper editor and broadcaster who presented LKP with the LSL Property Award for Best Online Editorial 2013
Sebastian O’Kelly and Andrew Neal, the veteran newspaper editor and broadcaster, who presented the Leasehold Knowledge Partnership with the LSL Property Award for Best Online Editorial 2013

March 2013: The Leasehold Knowledge Partnership winning Best Online Editorial at the LSL Property Press Awards in March was a massive public recognition of its campaigning achievements.

LKP won the award in the face of competition from the Financial Times Online and Estates Gazette.

It was a team award, with due credit to Martin Boyd, head of LKP strategy and Charter Quay leaseholder, who provides invaluable advice on handling leasehold disputes.

The award was presented to Sebastian O’Kelly, of LKP, by veteran broadcaster and journalist Andrew Neil, who edited the Sunday Times for 11 years.

In handing it over, Neil said the judges were impressed by the website’s trenchant views, thorough investigations and total avoidance of PR puffery.

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  1. chas

    April 23, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    Well written Sebastian, congratulations for year two, If you wish to make it a hat-trick visit us at ABC and I can show you just how shoddy and complicit Peverel/Cirrus/Glyn Jackson had been.

    The 20 year period (as flagged up by Peverel Technicians) made the Warden Call System obsolete, (even when it worked very well) but of course not replacing the Warden Call System means CIRRUS would not be able to Price Fix and up-date a system, again creating monies for the Peverel Group.

    We were supposed to have been consulted regarding the up-date but no written consultation was ever seen?

    Peverel even had the Insurance Company pay for the up-date?

    I have to date only received part of what was asked for, we have been able to put together a catalogue of Peverel/Cirrus/Jackson failings that can be shown which are contractually incorrect. I believe that the collusion had occurred at ABC?

    Peverel Management Services decided not to include us as part of the Price Fixing even when Peverel Group admitted that they believed that all contracts after late 2006, had been Priced Fixed?

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