[2024] UKUT 00300 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-185

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

FTT REF: LON/0088/HNA/2022/0108

Royal Courts of Justice
Strand, London WC2A 2LL

25 September 2024

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

LANDLORD AND TENANT – FTT PROCEDURE – appeal against financial penalty imposed by local housing authority struck out by FTT for failure to file bundle of documents in response to authority’s case – appellant claiming to have no connection with unlicensed HMO – FTT directing itself by reference to CPR 9.3 and disregarding merits of the appeal – whether a proper exercise of its discretion – rules 3, 8 and 9, Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

SIRAJ DEANE

Appellant

-and-

LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

Respondent

86A Hatherley Gardens,

East Ham,

London E6

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

Determination on written representations

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

BPP Holdings v Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2016] EWCA Civ 121; [2016] 1 WLR 1915

BPP Holdings v Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs [2017] UKSC 55; [2017] 1 WLR 2945

Denton v T H White Limited [2004] EWCA Civ 906; [2014] 1 WLR 3926

Global Torch Ltd v Apex Global Management Ltd (No 2) [2014] UKSC 64

Haziri v Havering LBC [2019] UKUT 330 (LC)

Walbrook Trustee (Jersey) Ltd v Fattal [2008] EWCA Civ 427