[2024] UKUT 24 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-223

ON APPEAL FROM THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

FTT Ref: CAM/26UL/HNA/2022/0003

Royal Courts of Justice,

Strand, London WC2A

29 January 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – validity of notice of intent to impose financial penalty – adequacy of statement of reasons – whether failure to give sufficient reasons invalidated penalty or was cured by other material from which reasons were apparent – section 249A, Housing Act 2004 – Management of Houses in Multiple Occupation (England) Regulations 2006 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

WELWYN HATFIELD BOROUGH COUNCIL

Appellant

-and-

HONGMEI WANG

Respondent

132 Aldykes,

Roe Green, Hatfield

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

16 January 2024

Tara O’Leary, instructed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council for the Appellant

The respondent did not attend the hearing and was not represented

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Director of Public Prosecutions v McFarlane [2020] 1 Cr. App. R. 4

Maharaj v Liverpool City Council [2022] UKUT 140 (LC)

Mannai Investment Co Ltd v Eagle Star Life Assurance Co. Ltd [1997] AC 749

Nash v Birmingham Crown Court [2005] EWHC 338

Newbold v Coal Authority [2014] 1 WLR 1288

R v Home Sec., Ex p Jeyeanthan [2000] 1 WLR 354

Waltham Forest LBC v Younis [2019] UKUT 362 (LC)