[2025] UKUT 161 (LC)

Case No: LC-2024-792

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

Ref: LON/OOAN/HMF/2024/2011

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

London, WC2A 2LL

4 June 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

HOUSING – RENT REPAYMENT ORDER – jurisdiction – licensing offence – whether application made within time – whether offence committed in “the period of 12 months ending with the day on which the application is made” – reasonable excuse – whether proper assessment of defence made and adequate reasons given for rejecting excuse – s.41(2)(b), Housing and Planning Act 2016 – appeal allowed

BETWEEN:

STEVAN GORGIEVSKI

Appellant

-and-

CARL GRIFFITHS (1)

JOSHUA SQUIRES (2)

MATTHEW FARRELL (3)

ROSS KERSLAKE (4)

WILLIAM CHURCHILL (5)

Respondents

4 Biscay Road,

London W6

Martin Rodger KC,

Deputy Chamber President

8 May 2025

Howard Lederman, instructed directly, for the appellant

Peter Eliot of Justice for Tenants, for the respondents

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Aly v Aly [1984] 1 WLR 936

Camden Borough Council v ADC Estates Ltd (1990) 61 P & CR 48

Jevan v Athansiadi [2024] UKUT 358

Marigold v Wells [2023] UKUT 33 (LC)

Moh v Rimal Properties Ltd [2024] UKUT 324 (LC)