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A landlord has been ordered to pay the maximum €15,000 compensation after refusing to accept payments under the State housing assistance scheme on behalf of a tenant he later evicted into homelessness.
The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has ordered the landlord, Sherman Chan, to pay his tenant Olga Burla the sum after ruling he had breached the Equal Status Act 2000 by discriminating against her on the grounds of housing assistance.