Judge Deeds – my ordeal

In England, if a Cypriot bought a house without deeds,
They’d be rightly outraged and they’d lobby MPs
So imagine my sense of injustice, living here,
In Cyprus what I’ve paid for is costing me dear.

Aged 72, I must appeal to the court,
just to get deeds of the house that I bought.
Expats heed this tale before embarkation.
Sadly, there are hundreds, in the same situation.

My registered conveyance promised deeds by 2006,
But, the lawyer mortgaged land upon which my house sits.
Let me hasten to add, NOT the lawyer I used…
It’s the lawyer that sold to me! We’ll call him ‘the accused’…

I await the court hearing, costing two thousand euros
Ah, if only it would hit the fan of the EU Bureaus?
Then this unfair practice would be changed by law
Promised by leaders here oft times before.

I will keep you posted of how the verdict pans out
It’s good to talk – or in my case – shout!
Psalm 118 and verse 6 helps me see….
‘I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Submitted by Joan Sadler
By Grace
Oroklini, Larnaca