69 Coopersale Road, London E9 6AU
LON/00AM/HMF/2020/0217 · Hackney · decided 14 Jun 2021 · rent repayment order
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 9 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £7,596.27 per applicant on average; £68,366.45 in total for 9 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | not stated |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £300 |
| Rules | Old rules (offence before 1 May 2026): maximum 12 months' rent. |
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From the tribunal's reasons on the amount
To do so would be to punish the landlord for matters that form no part of the offence. … It might on the other hand be open to a landlord to rely on material showing that in all respects other than the failure to license the premises he had been a model landlord. That could constitute mitigation in accordance with the principles that generally apply in sentencing. … The RPT must take an overall view of the circumstances in determining what amount would be reasonable.” 11. But the statutory wording on which that paragraph is based is absent from the 2016 Act. … That means that there is nothing to detract from the obvious starting point, which is the rent itself for the relevant period of up to twelve months. Indeed, there is no other available starting point, which is unsurprising; this is a rent repayment order so we start with the rent. … In doing so he considered a number of sums that the landlord wanted to be deducted from the rent in calculating the payment. … But under the current statutory provisions the restriction of a rent repayment order to the landlord’s profit is impossible to justify. The rent repayment order is no longer tempered by a requirement of reasonableness; and it is not possible to find in the current statute any support for limiting the rent repayment order to the landlord’s profits. That principle should no longer be applied. …
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The original
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