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CAM/38UE/HMK/2025/0624 · Vale of White Horse · decided 30 Jun 2026 · rent repayment order
old rulesDismissed: the tribunal did not make a rent repayment order in this decision. See the original for its reasons.
| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 1 tenant |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 7 Aug 2024 to 19 Apr 2025 |
| Rules | Old rules (offence before 1 May 2026): maximum 12 months' rent. |
Read from the PDF automatically. Amounts are totals for the decision, across all its applicants.
From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
and the financial circumstances of the Respondent. … Ultimately, it only needed to determine the first issue, but it considered also the second and third to an extent. Facts. The main disputed fact between the parties was whether the Property was occupied as their sole or main residence by only four people (as contended by the Respondent) or five or more people (as contended by the Applicant). Part of that disagreement centred around whether one of those people was the Respondent. He said that he lived at the Property. The Applicant said that he did not. It did not actually matter: if five people had lived there, whether one was the Respondent or not was irrelevant. … The Tribunal was tasked with determining whether an offence was being committed. … The only other matters that were truly in dispute so far as relevant to the Tribunal’s decision related to the occupation of the Property, including whether the Respondent had ever lived there. On its face, the witnesses’ evidence would necessarily have been contradictory. However, on analysis, that was not so. This is because all agreed that the Respondent was regularly present at the Property and the Applicant had little detailed knowledge of who exactly had lived there and over what periods. …
An extract from the part of the decision that sets the amount. To keep people's names out, any sentence that might contain one is left out (marked …). The full reasons are in the original decision.
The original
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Past decisions are not a prediction. The tribunal decides each case on its facts, including the landlord's and tenant's conduct.