[2025] UKUT 2 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-199

AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL PROPERTY CHAMBER AND AN APPLICATION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW

REF: LON/OOBN/HNA/2023/0046

Royal Courts of Justice,

Strand, London WC2A 2LL

7 January 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – CIVIL PENALTY – licensing offence – true meaning of local housing authority policy – whether policy “too rigid” – s.249A, Housing Act 2004 – appeal allowed

JUDICIAL REVIEW – FTT’s power to review and amend its own decisions – alternative remedy available to challenge illegitimate review by appeal – application refused

BETWEEN:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST

Appellant

-and-

MARBLE PROPERTIES (LONDON) LIMITED

Respondent

AND BETWEEN:

LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST

Claimant

-and-

THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (PROPERTY CHAMBER)

Defendant

-and-

MARBLE PROPERTIES (LONDON) LIMITED

Interested Party

Martin Rodger KC, Deputy Chamber President

17 December 2024

Riccardo Calzavara, instructed by Sharpe Pritchard, for the appellant/claimant

Neither the respondent/interested party nor the defendant participated

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

AA Homes & Housing Ltd v LB Croydon [2020] UKUT 181 (LC)

Brewer v Mann [2012] EWCA Civ 246

JS v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] UKUT 100 (AAC)

Kazi v Bradford Metropolitan District Council [2024] EWCA Civ 1037

London Borough of Waltham Forest v Marshall [2020] UKUT 35 (LC)

MT (Algeria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] 2 AC 110 

Point West GR Ltd v Bassi [2020] 1 WLR 4102

R (RB) v First-tier Tribunal [2010] MHLR 192

Sutton v Norwich City Council [2021] EWCA Civ 20