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Introduction
Introduction
This is an appeal from the First-tier Tribunal’s refusal to award costs in favour of the appellants, who are leaseholders in Phoenix Place, Liverpool. Their names are set out in the attached schedule. They applied for an order for costs against the respondents, the freeholder and managing agent of the block, or alternatively their legal representatives, after the FTT declared that it had no jurisdiction to hear an application made by the respondents.
The appeal has been determined under the Tribunal’s written representations procedure. The appellants have been represented by Mr Jonathan Upton and the respondents by Mr David Gilchrist, and I am grateful to them both.
- Heading
- Introduction
- The legal background
- The factual background
- The proceedings in the FTT
- The FTT’s power to award costs
- The application for costs and the FTT’s decision
- The appeal from the costs decision
- The Tribunal’s own decision on the appellants’ application for costs
- Should an order for costs be made?
- Conclusions