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LON/00BC/LSC/2024/0234 · service charges · Redbridge · decided 11 Dec 2024

The tribunal found that the 15% back-office fee charged as part of the service charge is payable and not unreasonable, was not an administration charge, and made an order preventing the landlord's tribunal costs being passed to tenants through the service charge, but refused to order reimbursement of the application fees.

Outcome	Payable as demanded
Section 20C (landlord's costs of the case)	Order made
Section 20 consultation	Not in issue
Who applied	Leaseholder(s)
Freeholder / landlord	not a company, or not stated
Management company	none named
Managing agent	none named
Building	One flat
Service charge years in dispute	2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Items in dispute	administration charges, other
Items disallowed or reduced	none stated
Total demanded	not stated as one figure
Total found payable	not stated as one figure
Fees or costs ordered	none stated

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years: in respect of the service charge years 2019/20 to 2024/25
outcome: The tribunal determines that the contested service charges are payable
s20c: The tribunal makes an order under section 20C of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 that none of the landlord’s costs of the tribunal

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