When Does An Englishman's Castle No Longer Becomes His Own?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3589749/Pensioner-s-anger-squatter-wins-right-400-000-house-faces-losing-flat-pay-legal-bills.html

[Peter Pedant]

/// millions work hard to pay a mortgage or rent, this lowlife gets given it on a plate. Mental judges as usual.//

millions work .... irrelevant to this case
mortgage ..........irrelevant to this case
rent ..... relevant to this case - he didnt pay any

judges have to apply the settled law - squatters right and adverse possession have been law since ... god knows when 1189 probably
without frothing at the mouth

and he fitted the bill

[jno]

apparently squatting was an issue during the peasants' revolt, PP. You might say it's the reverse of landowners stealing the common from the goose.