[2025] UKUT 97 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-608

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

FTT Ref: LON/00AY/HIN/2021/0021

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

London WC2A 2LL

25 March 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – FTT PROCEDURE – COSTS – appeal to FTT against improvement notice – application by successful appellant for costs of appeal refused by FTT – whether appellant’s case presented on flawed basis – whether FTT’s assessment of respondent’s conduct flawed – rule 13(1)(b), Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013 – appeal dismissed

BETWEEN:

MANAQUEL COMPANY LIMITED

Appellant

-and-

LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

Respondent

Dorchester Court, Herne Hill,

London SE24

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

27 February 2025

Nicholas Isaac KC and Richard Miller, instructed by Comptons Solicitors LLP, for the appellant

Nicholas Ham, instructed by Lambeth Council Legal Services, for the respondent

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Bristol City Council v Aldford Two LLP [2011] UKUT 130 (LC)

Curd v Liverpool City Council [2024] UKUT 218 (LC), [2024] HLR 43

Lea v GP Ilfracombe Management Co Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 1241, [2025] 1 WLR 371

Ridehalgh v Horsfield [1994] EWCA Civ 40, [1994] Ch 205

Waltham Forest London Borough Council v Hussain [2023] EWCA Civ 733, [2024] KB 154 (reversing Waltham Forest London Borough Council v Hussain [2022] UKUT 241 (LC), [2023] HLR 1)

Willow Court Management Ltd v Alexander [2016] UKUT 290 (LC), [2016] L & TR 34