I'll be removing this thread shortly on the grounds that it is not relevant to the site, which is about mortgage repossession and shortfall-related debt rather than landlord and tenancy disputes.(posted 7321 days ago)I want to clarify a couple of issues before I do that.
It is not a breach of the Data Protection Act to post the landlord's name and address on this site.
The Home Repossession Page encourages posters to post the names and - where possible - the address of creditors, debt chasers, etc.
Whether the landlord would be hopping mad or not is irrelevant. I strongly discourage posters from taking other people's "hopping madness" into account when they post here. We are not here to mollify creditors, alleged creditors and the like. We are here to identify creditors, debt chasers, to discuss them, to discuss what they do, how they do it and to share what we learn about our rights. Consideration for how mad these people might get obstructs that discussion.
It may well be that there is a separate legal discussion about the level of malice involved in posting this landlord's name and address. But that is a legal discussion, not a legal absolute. This site encourages such discussion to take place for two reasons:
1. openness
2. this area of the law (where privacy butts up against the right to discuss/share personal issues) is not well defined. That this should be clarified by discussion (in the courts/chambers) rather than through legislation is simply a characteristic of England's precedent-based legal system.