[2024] UKUT 403 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-571

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

REF: CHI/00HE/HNA/2023/0030

12 December 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – operation of house in multiple occupation without a licence - need to prove the commission of the offence beyond reasonable doubt – whether the First-tier Tribunal had sufficient evidence to find that all five occupants lived at the property as their sole or main residence.

BETWEEN:

RICHARD O’HALLORAN

Appellant

-and-

CORNWALL COUNCIL

Respondent

22 Trevail Way,

St Austell,

Cornwall,

PL25 4QT

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Determination on written representations

Mr Karol Hart of Freemans Solicitors LLP, for the appellant

Cornwall Council’s Legal Services department, for the respondent

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The following cases were referred to in this decision:

Camfield v Uyiekpen [2022] UKUT 2324 (LC)

Opara v Olasemo [2020] UKUT 96 (LC)