[2024] UKUT 120 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-585

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

FTT REF: LON/00BK/LSC/2022/0399

15 May 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – apportionment – landlord’s contractual obligation to act reasonably – whether the standard imposed by the express term in the lease is reasonableness or rationality – can a reasonable outcome be unfair?

BETWEEN:

GRAHAM BRADLEY (1)

MICHAEL RHODES (2)

Appellants

-and-

ABACUS LAND 4 LIMITED

Respondent

Apartments 202 & 206, Romney House,

47 Marsham Street,

London, SW1P 3DR

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

6 March 2024 and 18 April 2024

Mr James Sandham for the appellants on a direct access basis

Mr Tom Morris for the respondent, instructed by JB Leitch Limited

© CROWN COPYRIGHT 2024

The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223

Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd and another [2015] UKSC 17

Cain v Islington [2015] UKUT 542 (LC)

G & AGorrara Ltd and others v Kenilworth Court Block E RTM Co Ltd [2024] UKUT 379 (LC)

Hawk Investment Properties Ltd v Eames and others [2023] UKUT 168 (LC)

Hayes v Willoughby [2013] UKUT 17

Paragon Finance plc v Nash and another [2001] EWCA Civ 1466

Socimer International Bank Ltd v Standard Bank London Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 116

Williams and others v Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Ltd [2023] UKSC 6

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