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The legal background
The legal background
The legal background to this appeal is found in the provisions of the Housing Act 2004 relating to two housing offences and to the provisions about civil penalties for such offences.
- Heading
- Introduction
- The legal background
- Failure to comply with an improvement notice
- Failure to comply with HMO regulations
- Financial penalties
- The facts, and the decision in the FTT
- The appeal
- Ground 1: mitigation arising from the respondent’s approval of the premises for Mr Douglas
- Ground 2: the “final determinant” and the benefit to the landlord
- Ground 3: totality
- Discussion and conclusion
- Conclusions