[2024] UKUT 324 (LC)

Case Nos: LC-2024-191 and LC-2024-521

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

REFS: LON/OOBK/HMF/2023/0113 (LC-2024-191), LON/00AM/HMF/2023/0323

(LC-2024-5210 18 October 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – RENT REPAYMENT ORDER – meaning of “the period of 12 months ending with the day on which the application is made” – date and time at which a defence takes effect

BETWEEN:

KIMBERLEY RUTH SING TZE MOH (1)

ALESSANDRO FACCIORUSSO (2)

SOFIA SANIA SERRANO (3)

Appellants

(LC-2024-191)

-and-

RIMAL PROPERTIES LIMITED

Respondent

Flat 501, Jerome House,

14 Lisson Grove,London,

NW1 6TS

DR JAMES KIELY (1)

MS HOLLIE SAUNDERS (2)

MR JOSEPH HIGGINS (3)

Appellants

(LC-2024-521)

-and-

BOSTALL ESTATES LIMITED

Respondent

Flat 3, 8 Reighton Road, London, E5 8SG

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke on 8 October 2024

Royal Courts of Justice

In LC-2024-521, Mr Justin Bates KC and Mr Peter Sibley for the appellants, instructed by JMW Solicitors LLP acting pro bono. Mr Karol Hart for the respondent of Freemans Solicitors

In LC-2024-521 Dr James Kiely represented the appellants. Ms Mandeep Heer represented the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Dodds v Walker [1981] 1 WLR 1027

Gurusinghe and others v Drumlin Ltd [2021 UKUT 268 (LC

Lester v Garland 33 ER 748

Luton Borough Council v Altavon Luton Ltd [2020] HLR 4

Matthew v Sedman [2021] UKSC 19

Segal v Young [2001] NSWCA 141

Stewart v Chapman [1951] 2 KB 792

R v Waltham Forest Borough Council [2020] 1 WLR 2929