[2023] UKUT 168 (LC)

Venue – Royal Courts of Justice

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL

(PROPERTY CHAMBER)

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – apportionment – effect of section 27A(6) of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 – standard of review to be applied to a determination by a Landlord’s surveyor of a new method of apportionment pursuant to the lease

BETWEEN

HAWK INVESTMENT PROPERTIES LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

DIANA AND CHRISTOPHER EAMES (1)

ERIK MIELKE AND KAREN MARIE RICHARDSON (2)

TIMOTHY ADRIAN ROBERT CLARK AND PENELOPE JANE COOPER (3)

RICHARD JOHN LATHAM (4) MARK COMISKEY (5)

HARSHA RANIL PERERA (6)

JOHN WILLIAM BISWELL AND JENNIFER BISWELL (7)

ANNE VALENTINE (8)

NICHOLAS CHARLES HOWES AND SUSAN JEAN HOWES (9)

NANCY JACKSON (10)

ELIZABETH ANNE BLOSSOM AND JONATHAN HINKINS (11)

DIANE HARRISON (12)

Respondents

Re: 1-12 Heritage Close, High Street, St Albans, AL3 4EB

Judge Elizabeth Cooke

1 June 2023

Decision Date: 20 July 2023

Mr Mark Loveday and Ms Ceri Edmonds for the appellant, instructed by Darlington Hardcastles Solicitors

Mr Nicholas Grundy KC for the respondents, instructed by SA Law LLP

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Limited v Williams [2023] UKSC 6

Braganza v BP Shipping Limited [2015] UKSC 17

Hayes v Willoughby [2013] UKSC 17

London Borough of Hounslow v Waaler [2017] EWCA Civ 45

Sheffield City Council v Oliver [2017] EWCA Civ 255

Windermere Marina Village Limited v Wild [2014] UKUT 163 (LC)