[2025] UKUT 00300 (LC)

Case No: LC-2023-835

IN THE MATTER OF A NOTICE OF REFERENCE

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand,

30 September 2025

TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007

COMPENSATION - COSTS – whether conditional offer engages s.4 Land Compensation Act 1961 – offer in excess of award in any event – time for consideration of offer – amount claimable under the Litigants in Person (Costs and Expenses) Act 1975 – Schedule 4, Electricity Act 1989

BETWEEN:

SIMON NELSON

Claimant

-and-

SOUTHERN ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION

Compensating Authority

Dale House, Foundry Road,

Anna Valley,

Andover,

Hampshire,

SP11 7NG

Mr P McCrea OBE FRICS FCIArb

Decision on Written Representations

The claimant represented himself

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, for the compensating authority

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The following cases are referred to in this decision:

Nelson v Southern Electric Power Distribution [2025] UKUT 0213 (LC)

Golf Café Bars Limited v West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Network Rail Infrastructure Limited [2021] UKUT 0048 (LC)