Deposit Protection Scheme

If a landlord holds your deposit without placing it in an independent registered scheme for more than 2 weeks, you are entitled to take them to the small claims court, whereby if found guilty they have to pay you back the deposit, plus a fine 3 x the deposit amount as compensation - i myself have actually taken a landlord through this process, and got the money back very quickly:

^ Bang on the money.

Nope, bang off the money. The OP is complaining about the fact that the deposit scheme, approved by the govt that VV is talking about seems to have "screwed him over" somehow.

@OP: what I want to know is how you think the DPS or the landlord actually and deliberately and maliciously withheld your deposit. Or was it mis-communication / or a lack of awareness about how the scheme works on his / her part? How would this have been different without the DPS?