[2024] UKUT 175 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-440

LC-2023-441

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

FTT REF: LON/00BG/LSC/2021/0287

26 June 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

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

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – whether charges reasonably incurred – insurance commission – retention of commission by broker - considerations relevant to whether charges reasonably incurred when the landlord was committed to them under a long-term agreement

BETWEEN:

LIAM PHILIP SPENDER AND 103 OTHERS

Appellant

-and-

FIT NOMINEE LIMITED AND FTT NOMINEE 2 LIMITED

Respondent

Various Properties at St. David’s Square,

Westferry Road,

London,

E14 8JS

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

23 April 2024

Mr Liam Spender for the appellants

Mr Simon Allison for the respondent, instructed by JB Leitch Limited

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Auger v London Borough of Chelsea (2008) LRX/81/2007

Azhar v All Money Matters [2023] EWCA Civ 1341

Burr v OM Property Management [2013] 1 WLR 3071

Continental Property Ventures v White (2006) EW Lands LRX/60/2005

Cos Services Limited v Nicholson and another [2017] UKUT 382 (LC)

Daejan v Benson and others [2013] UKSC 14

London Borough of Lewisham v Rey-Ordieres and others [2013] UKUT 14 (LC)

Octagon Overseas Limited and anr v Cantlay and others [2024] UKUT 72 (LC)

Patel and others v Spender and others [2024] UKUT 62 (LC)

Waaler v Hounslow London Borough Council [2017] EWCA Civ 45

Williams v Southwark London Borough Council (2001) 33 HLR 22