[2024] UKUT 140 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-604

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

FTT REF: MAN/OOCJ/HNA/2022/0101

21 May 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – Landlord failing to comply with licence condition requiring provision of information on demand – address for service of demand – demand not received – whether offence committed – s.233, Local Government Act 1972; s. 196, Law of Property Act 1995; s.7, Interpretation Act 1978; s.249A, Housing Act 2004 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL

Appellant

-and-

MAHMOUD ABDALLAH

Respondent

29 Gillies Street,

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

7 May 2024

Miss Sarah Salmon, instructed by Newcastle City Council, for the appellant

The respondent did not participate in the appeal

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Birmingham City Council v Bravington [2023] EWCA Civ 308, [2023] HLR 31, [2023] KB 421, [2023] L & TR 14

Calladine-Smith v Saveorder Ltd [2011] EWHC 2501 (Ch), [2011] 3 EGLR 55

Enfield London Borough Council v Devonish (1997) 29 HLR 691

London Borough of Newham v Ahmed [2016] EWHC 679 (Admin)

Newham LBC v Miah [2016] EWHC 1043 (Admin), [2016] PTSR 1082

Oldham MBC v Tanna [2017] EWCA Civ 50, [2017] 1 WLR 1970

R v County of London Quarter Sessions Appeals Committee ex parte Rossi [1956] 1 QB 682

Rushmoor Borough Council v Reynolds (1991) 23 HLR 495

Southwark LBC v Akhtar [2017] UKUT 150 (LC), [2017] L & TR 36

Tull, R (on the application of) v Camberwell Green Magistrates' Court & Anor [2004] EWHC 2780 (Admin), [2004] RA 31