A NEWCASTLE man whose house was nearly wrongly sold by a court order in a case of mistaken identity has been left with a legal bill of $14,000.The NSW Supreme Court "writ of sale" was lifted last week but the man, Robert Mitrevski, of Adamstown, is furious about what happened.Mr Mitrevski, who is paying off a rental property at Jesmond, discovered a writ of sale had been placed on the property as part of a four-year court battle involving another Robert Mitrevski, a Sydney businessman, and a married couple, George and Vera Bakovski, also of Sydney. "But I have never met this Robert Mitrevski, he's not me, it's got nothing to do with me," Mr Mitrevski said yesterday."The Government has all these records and files and things that could be checked, should be checked, and yet someone can walk in and get the right to sell your house just because you have the same name as the person they are after. It's outrageous."What's worse, the only way I found out about this was that I went to my bank manager to ask about a car loan and he told me he couldn't do it because I owed the bank $3 million. I said 'What? I don't owe $3 million.'"That's when we found the writ against my house. It's taken all these weeks, the stress has been unbelievable, to sort all of this out."I've had to hire a lawyer to pay to get it fixed up." Spokespeople for the NSW Supreme Court and the NSW Department of Lands both agreed yesterday that the writ should never have been placed over his property but neither was prepared to acknowledge responsibility."Writs are issued by a court in respect of debts owed by judgement debtors," a Lands Department spokesman said yesterday. A Supreme Court spokeswoman said the court had issued "a writ for levy over property" owned by the Mr Mitrevski involved in the court case, but the identification of that property would have been done by the Department of Lands.The court and the department said costs incurred by Mr Mitrevski "should be borne by the judgement creditors", the Bakovskis.Jesmond real estate agent Allen Reece said he managed the Jesmond house for Mr Mitrevski and found it hard to believe what had happened to him."There's a moral to the story, though, and that's make sure you use your full name in registering a property," Mr Reece said."If the house was registered in the name of Robert Steven Mitrevski it probably would not have happened."