[2024] UKUT 00303 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-148

IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL UNDER

SECTION 18 OF THE LAND COMPENSATION ACT 1961

Royal Courts of Justice

24 October 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

COMPENSATION - COSTS – Certificate of Appropriate Alternative Development – Tribunal cancelling Authority’s ‘nil’ certificate and substituting positive certificate – Respondent claiming its costs – whether Appellant the successful party – whether conduct justified award of costs in Respondent’s favour - rule10(6)(aa), Tribunal Procedure (Upper Tribunal) (Lands Chamber) Rules 2010

BETWEEN:

MR MOHAMMED BASHIR

Appellant

-and-

THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

Respondent

117, 119-121 High Street

Stratford

London

E15 2QQ

DECISION ON WRITTEN REPRESENTATIONS

Her Honour Judge Alice Robinson and Mr Peter D McCrea OBE FRICS FCIArb

James Pereira KC and Mark O’Brien O’Reilly, instructed by Holmes & Hill LLPfor the appellant

Neil Cameron KC and Nick Grant, instructed by DLA Piper LLPfor the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Bashir v London Borough of Newham [2024] UKUT 00146 (LC)

Leech Homes Limited v Northumberland County Council [2021] EWCA Civ 198

Pigot v The Environment Agency [2020] 1444 (Ch)

R. (Viridor Waste Management Limited) v Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2016] EWHC 2502 (Admin)

Summit Property Limited v Pitmans [2001] EWCA Civ 2020