[2024] UKUT 155 (LC)

This is an appeal from rent repayment orders made by the First-tier Tribunal (“the FTT”) requiring the appellant, Ms Yi, to repay rent to two of her tenants at 1, Observatory Mews, London E14. An order in respect of a third tenant is unappealed.

The FTT’s order to repay rent to Mr Hobbs, the first respondent, is appealed on the basis that the FTT’s treatment of rent arrears was incorrect; the appeal against the order in favour of Mr Alaike, the second respondent, relates simply to arithmetical errors made by the FTT.

The appellant has represented herself; written submissions in response to the application for permission to appeal were made on behalf of both respondents by Mr Muhammed Williams, an officer of the local housing authority, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Once permission to appeal was granted it is the authority’s policy not to provide representation for tenants, and Mr Hobbs submitted a statement of case which largely repeated Mr Williams’ arguments.