Thank you for Chris Baker's excellent article "Leaseholders fear power shift" (The Argus, September 3).

If repairs aren't well done after being paid for up-front, does this mean we'll never get our money back?

The tribunals can't help but the courts still can. The county court's jurisdiction extends both to paid and unpaid service charges. The tribunal's jurisdiction is confined to unpaid service charges.

We can still claim back overpaid or wrongly paid money but in different places - just another reason for doing away with all the convoluted housing legislation and substituting one consolidated act for leaseholders.

We didn't have tribunals when my block got a £1.5 million repair bill. Our solicitors warned us if we carried on fighting we'd be homeless and bankrupted by court costs.

-Shula Rich, Chairman of Brighton, Hove and District Leaseholders' Association, Hove