[2023] UKUT 233 (LC)

This is an appeal from a rent repayment order made by the First-tier Tribunal against the respondent landlords, Mr and Mrs Morrison. The tenants who applied for the order are three of the five tenants who lived in the house at the relevant time; they appeal the order made in their favour, with permission from the FTT. They say that instead of making an order that the respondents repay 70% of the rent the three of them paid (three-fifths of the whole) the FTT’s order should have been for repayment of 70% of the whole of the rent because each had been jointly and severally liable to the respondents for the whole.

The appeal has been decided under the Tribunal’s written representations procedure. The appellants’ grounds of appeal were drafted by Clark Edward Barrett of Represent Law Ltd, and the respondents have not been legally represented.