[2024] UKUT 93 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-388

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

FTT REF: MAN/00BN/HNA/2021/0063

Royal Courts of Justice

10 April 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – failure to comply with an improvement notice – defence of reasonable excuse – notice correctly served but the landlord did not receive it – failure to update address for service at HM Land Registry

BETWEEN:

NAILA TABASSAM

Appellant

-and-

MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL

Respondent

58 Ollier Avenue,

Manchester,

M12 5SW

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

3 April 2024

Mr Mikhail Charles for the appellant, instructed by Northwest Solicitors Ltd

Mr Paul Whatley for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

IR Management Ltd v Salford City Council [2020] UKUT 81 (LC)

London Borough of Waltham Forest v Marshall [2020] UKUT 35 (LC)

Marigold and others v Wells [2022] UKUT 33 (LC)

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council v Tanna [2017] EWCA Civ 50

Perrin v HMRC [2018] UKUT 156 (TCC)

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