714 Lordship Lane, London N22 5JN
LON/00AP/HMF/2021/0299 · Haringey · decided 11 May 2023 · rent repayment order
old rules| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Individual |
| Applicants | 2 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 24 Jun 2020 to 30 Apr 2021 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure (or not yet checked); £764.67 then deducted for utilities |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £3,260 per applicant on average; £6,520 in total for 2 applicants |
| Share of the maximum | 60%, as the tribunal stated it |
| Tribunal fees to be reimbursed | £300 |
| 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
a sample of the exchanges in the chat group). The exchanges exhibit all the qualities of genuine, natural conversations between tenants and a landlord. The internal evidence of the exchanges in the chat group is enough to persuade us to the criminal standard that it is genuine. To have fabricated it would have require a remarkable level of skill and imagination and a command of realistic dialogue rare in fiction. … We accordingly reject this possibility, in addition to that relied on by the Respondent. … We find that the group chat provided is genuine, and as a result that the occupation of the property was as described by the Applicants. An HMO licence was required. … The Respondent did not raise the issue of reasonable excuse (section 72(5) of the 2004 Act). That was no doubt inevitable given the nature of her case. We have, however, considered whether such a defence is available to her. … When she relinquished the tenancy, it reverted to the company. … The Respondent said that, in respect of this tenancy, she relied on her previous knowledge of HMO licensing. She was not a member of a landlord’s association. She did receive email updates from some websites that she had in the past subscribed to, but she agreed that she was not really up to date with her obligations. …
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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