5 Niagara Avenue, London, W5 4UD
LON/00AJ/HMF/2024/0610 · Ealing · decided 12 May 2025 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Harassment |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 1 tenant |
| Rent | £352 per month |
| Period the order relates to | ? to 15 Mar 2024 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked) |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £3,250 (1 applicant) |
| Share of the maximum | not stated |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £165 |
| 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; the maximum is left out of the statistics until it has been checked.
From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
considered. If the offence relates to HMO licensing, the amount must relate to rent paid by the Applicants in a period, not exceeding 12 months, during which the Respondents were committing the offence. This aspect is discussed rather more fully below. … (2) The amount must relate to rent paid during the period mentioned in the table. If the order is made on the ground that The amount must relate to rent the landlord has committed repaid by the tenant in respect of An offence mentioned in row 1 or 2 of The period of 12 months ending with the table in section 40(3) the date of the offence An offence mentioned in row 3, 4, 5, 6, A period, not exceeding 12 months, or 7 of the table in section 40(3) during which the landlord was committing the offence … (3) The amount that the landlord may be required to repay in respect of a period must not exceed- (a) the rent repaid in respect of that period, less (b) any relevant award of universal credit paid (to any person) in respect of rent under the tenancy during that period. … Because cases have to be proved to the criminal standard of proof, the burden is on the tenant to establish that an offence has been committed. The landlord has the right to silence. There is no provision for judgment by default. …
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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