[2025] EWHC 2477 (Ch)

At the heart of each of the counterclaims are factual issues as to what each defendant would have done in relation to rent if she or he had known, as they know now, that as from 15 December 2023, because they had not been given an ECR, their properties were deemed unfit for human habitation and they were not required to pay rent until the ECR was given. This is dealt with in the written evidence of each, and in oral evidence by Ms Jones and Mr Wadley.