Flat 47 Harriot House, Jamaica Street, London E1 3DT
LON/00BG/HMF/2021/0176 · Tower Hamlets · decided 27 Jan 2022 · rent repayment order
old rulesfigures not yet checked| Offence | Unlicensed HMO |
|---|---|
| Landlord | Company and individuals: Bright Knights Ltd |
| Applicants | 3 tenants |
| Rent | not stated as one figure |
| Period the order relates to | 1 Jul 2019 to 27 Oct 2020 |
| Maximum the tribunal could award | not stated as one figure |
| Amount the tribunal ordered | £6,202 per applicant on average; £18,606 in total for 3 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
was relatively low in the scale of seriousness, by reason of mitigating circumstances or otherwise. In determining how much lower the RRO should be, the tribunal should take into account the purposes intended to be served by the jurisdiction to make an RRO, namely to punish offending landlords; deter landlords from further offences; dissuade other landlords from breaching the law; and removing from landlords the financial benefit of offending. … Levels of fines in each case are set relative to statutory maxima which define the limit of the due sanction and the fine for each offender is modulated on a spectrum of which that limit defines one end – effectively the maximum fine is reserved for the most serious cases. However, an RRO is penal but not a fine. The maximum RRO is set by the rent the tenant happened to pay, not by the gravity of the offence. It is possible for a landlord who has conducted themselves appallingly to pay less than a landlord who has conducted themselves perfectly (other than failing to obtain a licence) due to the levels of rent each happened to charge for their respective properties. … It is the result which inevitably follows from using the repayment of rent as the penalty rather than a fine. The maximum RRO, set by the amount of the rent, is a cap, not the maximum or other measure of the gravity of the parties’ conduct. …
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