Speaking at the time, Mr Scargill said the leadership at the NUM in Yorkshire had taken "vindictive action" against him.
Mr Scargill, 74, said he was given use of the rented three-bed Barbican flat for life when he became NUM president in 1982, a tenure that lasted 20 years.
After being elected Yorkshire President following his success at Saltley, Scargill became NUM President in 1981 and the scene was set for the 1984 dispute when, in defiance of the government's demand that 20 uneconomic mines should be closed with the loss of 20, 000 jobs, the strike went ahead without the endorsement of a pit head ballot.
BBC: Analysis: Arthur Scargill's silence over Thatcher death
The court was also asked whether there was a limit to the fuel allowance for Mr Scargill's house in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and if the NUM was expected to meet the costs of its security system and his annual tax return for the rest of his life.
Cyril Ramaphosa, once boss of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), is often cited as a case in point.
My last interview with him was in February 2012 at a rally in Birmingham to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Saltley Gates, when as an up-and-coming NUM activist he organised the flying pickets which succeeded in closing the Saltley coke depot, forcing the then Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath to concede a 27% pay increase.
BBC: Analysis: Arthur Scargill's silence over Thatcher death
Heath's defeat in 1974 and the re-election of a Labour government helped entrench the NUM's industrial muscle.
BBC: Analysis: Arthur Scargill's silence over Thatcher death
Two Marikana workers were arrested Oct. 12 for the murder of a NUM official, at his home, who had been expected to testify in front of a commission regarding the death of 34 people Aug. 16.
He was president of the NUM from 1982 until 2002, and led the union during the miners' strike in the 1980s.
The most recent violence at Lonmin spun from a rivalry between the emerging Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, or AMCU, and NUM, the country's largest mine union, who are competing for majority union membership in South Africa's platinum mines.
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