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The saga comes to an end...?

12/2/2016

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So, those of you who have been with us on our epic, Kafkaesque odyssey through the Machiavellian machinations of Arms, the Maltese Government, the Maltese Office of the Ombudsman, the Maltese National Audit Office, the Maltese courts... will probably not need a refresher.  However, just in case, these are the salient highlights:
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August 2013:  We find out that we have been overcharged by more than 3 000 euro on our utilities.  We tell our landlord that we will therefore not pay the 1 600 euro arrears on the Arms bill.

August 2013:  Our ex landlord succeeds in applying a garnishee order on our bank account and my salary because, prima facie, we “owe” him money.

October 2013:  I submit a complaint to the EU Commission and a petition to the EU Parliament.

November 2013:  I write to then Arms CEO James Davis, cc’d to Minister for Energy, Konrad Mizzi and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, asking for a refund of our overcharge.  This would also have the effect of cancelling the arrears on the Arms account and therefore would necessitate a stop to the court proceedings.  Legalistic gobbledegook was the reply, and therefore I had to attend court for nearly two years.

November 2013 to July 2015:  I attend court monthly to have my say on why we should get the garnisheed money back.

Spring 2014:  We correspond with the National Audit Office because we felt that Arms was just as negligent as our landlord in this affair.  Arms systemically overcharges ALL tenants because it does not allow tenants to apply for the residential tariff for people living in their primary residences WITHOUT the permission of the landlord.  This has created a fraud triangle between landlords, letting agents and Arms.  The net effect is that it is not in any of these three’s interests to remedy this situation.  Disappointlngly we were told that, because we were in sub judice, the NAO could not intervene.  This was a nonsense, we felt, because Arms was neither the plaintiff nor the defendant.

August 2014:  I submit a complaint to the Maltese Office of the Ombudsman.  Again, we are totally disillusioned because again I was told that nothing could be done because I was in sub judice.  Therefore I write a complaint on behalf of all tenants, instead.  To date I have not been informed by the Office of the Ombudsman of any closure, or solution to this problem.

July 10th 2015:  The magistrate in the Small Claims Court ruled that in the same way that 'Ignorance is no excuse' for tenants, it was also no excuse for landlords, and therefore the landlord had to pay half the Arms arrears.
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July 14th 2015:  I watch the live video stream of the discussion of my petition 1737/2013 in the EU Parliament.  The EU Commission representative said that the Commission was unhappy with the response of the Maltese Government re the Arms/tenant issue and therefore my petition was to be kept open.
 
February, 2016:  I receive an update from the EU Commission re my complaint.  This is the letter: 


reply from the EU Commission 100216
File Size: 127 kb
File Type: pdf
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So, all going well, we will hopefully be refunded our money.  All we have to do is prove that we lived in the property we lived in, et voila!

It only took 2 and a half years (and counting) of time, effort, angst, stress...  to get to this point.  And it wasn't any Maltese check and balance that got us here.  

​Thank goodness for the EU is all I can say.
37 Comments
Tibo
13/2/2016 08:32:50 am

Hello,

Good JOB !!! I will try to see what their reaction is to my own demands. And will keep you updated on my own refunds to see if they really take this into account or not

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Johanna MacRae
13/2/2016 08:37:38 am

Brilliant. :) Hopefully, the saga will come to an end for ALL tenants.

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Nicky Oblie
13/2/2016 12:24:19 pm

Brilliant work!! A very big thank you for paving the way for the rest of us. You have literally made a fundamental change for the good of all EU residents living in Malta.

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Johanna MacRae
13/2/2016 10:18:51 pm

Thank you. :)

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Bernard J Schranz
15/2/2016 11:20:49 am

Well done for your perseverance !!! So admirable.
Hope this long drawn saga will have the satisfactory ending of justice served the right way. Good luck.

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Johanna MacRae
15/2/2016 04:03:17 pm

Thank you, Bernard. Hopefully it will. Somebody in authority just has to see that this abuse cannot continue.

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