[2024] UKUT 205 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-38

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

FTT REF: LON/00AE/LSC/2022/0332

16 July 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

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

LANDLORD AND TENANT – SERVICE CHARGES – recovery of legal and mediation expenses as service charges – construction of the lease

BETWEEN:

THANET LODGE (MAPESBURY ROAD)

RTM COMPANY LIMITED

Appellants

-and-

ARUN MIRCHANDANI

Respondent

29 Thanet Lodge,

10 Mapesbury Road,

London, NW2 4JA

Upper Tribunal Judge Elizabeth Cooke

Decision on written representations

Streathers Highgate LLP for the appellants

Raphael Levy for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36

Assethold Ltd v Watts [2014] UKUT 537 (LC)

Holland Park Management Company Limited v Dell [2023] EWCA Civ 1460

Kensquare Ltd v Boakye [2021] EWCA Civ 1725

London Borough of Tower Hamlets v Lessees of Brewster House and Malting House [2024] UKUT 193 (LC)

No. 1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd v East Tower Apartments Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 1119

Sella House Ltd v Mears (1988) 21 HLR 147