At a possession hearing is it better to ask the court to dismiss the case and pay the court costs of £100? Or to have the case adjourned generally with permission to restore on terms that the current rent plus a regular portion of the arrears is paid with the court costs of £100 to be reserved? To cut a long story short I am endeavoring to help a friend out with a possession hearing on his Housing Association flat. This came about because of arrears of rent as the Local Authority cancelled his Housing Benefit because the DWP advised him to cease his JSA claim and become self employed. Historically he has erratic and seasonal casual earnings. And also the effect of the bedroom tax. The hearing is tomorrow afternoon and has already been adjourned once, which allowed us time to sort out his ongoing HB and get a significant payment out of the council. This made a substantial dent and he had also been making regular payments towards the balance of the arrears. Due to delays obtaining up to date statements from the HA it has been hard to determine where exactly he stood. Hence the Advice Centre pursued the general adjournment option and won't be attending court. However it now transpires that as of this afternoon we have cleared the arrears and the HA have confirmed that verbally. Hence my question as to how best to proceed. The advice centre assumed that the arrears would not be cleared but would be substantially reduced, hence they obtained agreement. We have been unsuccessful in trying to contact anybody at the Advice Centre as they don't work Mondays. So what to do?