[2023] UKUT 306 (LC)

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL

(PROPERTY CHAMBER)

HOUSING – RENT REPAYMENT ORDER – statutory definitions of “person managing” and “person in control of” an HMO – effect of paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 2004 when the person managing or in control of an HMO is a health service body within the meaning of section 9 of the National Health Service Act 2006

BETWEEN:

PHOEBE COTTAM AND SIX OTHERS

Appellant

-and-

LOWE MANAGEMENT LIMITED

Respondent

Re: The Gables, 2-4 Blackheath Park London SE3 9RR

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Decision on written representations

Decision Date: 20 December 2023

Flat Justice for the appellant

Mr M Croskell for the respondent, instructed by Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Cabo v Dezotti [2022] UKUT 240 (LC)

Global 100 Limited v Jimenez and others [2023] EWCA Civ 1243

Hastings Borough Council v Braear Developments Limited [2015] UKUT 415 (LC)

Pollway Nominees Limited v Croydon London Borough Council [1987] 1 AC 79

R v London Borough of Lambeth ex p Clayhope Properties Limited [1988] QB 563

Truman, Hanbury, Buxton & Co. Ltd v Kerslake [1894] 2 Q.B. 774

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