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The Magistrate, in delivering judgment, said, "Something
might happen if you all join with the tenants in trying to put
pressure on the L.C.C. If I am entitled to make a Closing Order
it would bring the thing to a head. ”He then made a Closing Order
in respect of all three houses and added, "Perhaps that will stir
somebody up to do something.”
It must be realised that the Magistrate had heard evidence
from a builder who had been brought to Court by the defendants
with a view to resisting Abatement Orders being made, and the
Magistrate gamed the impression from the builder's evidence that
these premises were in an extremely bad condition of repair, but,
whilst it is admitted that the property is old and neglected, it is by
no means in the ruinous condition which the Magistrate appeared
to have accepted it to be.