Daejan Properties Ltd v Griffin and another

Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 – Service charge – Reasonableness – Appellant landlord carrying out emergency works to building – Replacement of steel beams supporting workway used to access flats on upper floors – Section 27A of 1985 Act – Whether respondent lessees of flats liable to pay for entirety of cost of works through service charge – Whether liability of respondents to be reduced on ground that cost of works increased by historic neglect – Appeal allowed

Westleigh Properties Ltd v Grimes

UPPER TRIBUNAL (LANDS CHAMBER)       UT Neutral citation number: [2014] UKUT 0213(LC) LT Case Number: LRX/74/2013                                                                                 TRIBUNALS, COURTS AND ENFORCEMENT ACT 2007   LANDLORD AND TENANT – service charges – restrictive contribution covenant – whether management fee recoverable – appeal dismissed       IN THE MATTER OF AN APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION OF THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY TRIBUNAL (NORTHERN RENT ASSESSMENT PANEL)   BETWEEN:                                            WESTLEIGH PROPERTIES LTD                  Appellant and         MRS J S GRIMES                                     Respondent                                                                                     Re: 18 Winner Street,        Paignton,        Devon        TQ3 3BJ         Determination on written representations     © CROWN COPYRIGHT 2014   The following case is referred to in this decision:   Waverley Borough Council v Arya [2013] UKUT 0501 (LC)     Introduction 1.By a decision made on 6 April 2013 the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal for the Southern Rent Assessment Panel (“the LVT”) determined that the appellant, Westleigh Properties Limited, was not entitled to recover management fees which had been added to the service charges payable by the respondent, Mrs Grimes, and two other lessees of flats at 18 Winner Street, Paignton, Devon TQ3 3BJ (“the Property”) for the years 2004-2012.  This appeal raises the sole issue whether the LVT’s decision was correct.

Hakmi v Hakmi and others

JUDGMENT: APPROVED BY THE COURT FOR HANDING DOWN (SUBJECT TO EDITORIAL CORREC-TIONS). MR N STRAUSS QC (Sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court): .

L Batley Pet Products Ltd v North Lanarkshire Council

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