Property offered to the tenant as a sole tenant. Within first month of the tenancy, tenant due to some arguments with his wife, left the property by leaving his wife and kids in the property, resultantly, rent arrears immediately started after first month. Wife contacted the council for help, however, council stated that she needs to have the tenancy under her name. Despite of the arguments with his wife, the tenant contacted the landlord and “DEMANDED” the tenancy to be changed to his wife name. The landlord clearly refused. During inspection of the property, it was found that the tenant wife is running a catering business in the property which attracted lot of mice in the property. Rent arrears continued to accrue more. With no option left, the landlord approached us for eviction. We served section 8 notice and matter taken to the court. Surprisingly, the main tenant filed the defence and alleged the disrepair issues including leakage of roof etc. Landlord contacted the tenant who started laughing. On the first hearing, matter represented by us and tenant also attended the hearing and represented by Duty Solicitors. However, within 8-9 minutes, the District Judge ordered the tenant :-