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Flat 208 Trelawney Estate, Paragon Road, London E9 6PH

LON/00AM/HMB/2020/0005 · Hackney · decided 6 Mar 2023 · rent repayment order

old rules
OffenceUnlicensed HMO
LandlordIndividual
Applicants1 tenant
Rent£735 per month
Period the order relates to1 Oct 2019 to 28 Jan 2020
Maximum the tribunal could award£2,869
Amount the tribunal ordered£2,152 (1 applicant)
Share of the maximum75%, as the tribunal stated it
Tribunal fees to be reimbursed£100
RulesOld 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

recompense, but to incentivise landlords. … It conveys the message, “a landlord who commits one of the offences listed in section 40(3) is liable to forfeit every penny he receives for a 12- month period”. Further, a landlord is encouraged to put matters right since he will know that, once he does so, there will be no danger of his being ordered to repay future rental payments.” 18. … (2) A rent repayment order is an order requiring the landlord under a tenancy of housing in England to— (a) repay an amount of rent paid by a tenant, or (b) pay a local housing authority an amount in respect of a relevant award of universal credit paid (to any person) in respect of rent under the tenancy.” 19. Section 40(3) lists seven offences “committed by a landlord in relation to housing in England let by that landlord”. … There is a criminal sanction in respect of some of these offences which may result in imprisonment. In other cases, the local housing authority might be expected to take action in the more serious case. However, recognising that the enforcement action taken by local authorities was been too low, the 2016 Act was enacted to provide additional protection for vulnerable tenants against rogue landlords. …

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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