[2023] UKUT 152 (LC)

This is Ms Yambasu’s appeal from a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (“the FTT”) about the reasonableness of service charges in the sum of £4,375.95 demanded from her in February 2016. The charges were her share of the estimated cost of major works to be carried out at the respondent local authority’s property, 1 – 38 Cronin Street in North Peckham, where Ms Yambasu has a long lease of flat number 15.

Ms Yambasu presented her own case to the Tribunal, and the respondent was represented by Mr Stephen Evans of counsel; I am grateful to them both.

I should say a word about the bundles. Unfortunately it was not possible for the parties to agree a bundle, and each presented their own. The respondent’s bundle consisted of the FTT bundle itself, and a further bundle of appeal documents. The respondent did not send a full copy of its bundle to the appellant, making the assumption that she had kept the bundle from the FTT. This was unhelpful both to the appellant and to the Tribunal. However, the appellant was able to see all the documents referred to during the hearing.