A ‘flagrant disregard for the law’: Landlords ordered to pay damages to tenants over CCTV monitoring

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A ‘flagrant disregard for the law’: Landlords ordered to pay damages to tenants over CCTV monitoring
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Cameras at Co Cork property sent notifications to couple’s phones when tenants entered and exited

A Residential Tenancies Board tribunal found the tenants were entitled to have their rights upheld while the tenancy was ongoing. Photograph: iStockhave been ordered to pay damages for their “flagrant disregard for the law” after monitoring their tenants through CCTV cameras following a “serious incident” at the property during which a resident doused himself in petrol.The female landlord told the tribunal they visited the male tenant on June 7th last year as they were “concerned about him”.

After being discharged from hospital on June 19th, the male tenant, who had been staying with his parents, met his wife at the property one evening before she received a text from the female landlord asking her “to get him to leave”. However, it said the landlords “are not permitted to act in such flagrant disregard for the law” despite their concerns for the safety and security of the property.

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