P C RESIDENTS (FINCHLEY ROAD) LIMITED v SEKINAT ABIOLA AND OTHERS

Decision date: 8 April 2013

Neutral citation: [2013] UKUT 165 (LC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerned a Management Order under s.24 Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 appointing Bruce Maunder Taylor as "Manager and Receiver" of Palace Court after lessees applied for management. The Lands Chamber held the LVT could appoint a manager and could confer on that manager functions ordinarily exercisable by a receiver when ancillary to management, but had no power to appoint a receiver as such; it removed the words "and Receiver" and corrected an inconsistency referring to "rent". The Chamber left open challenges to any specific acts by the manager for separate proceedings.

Ratio decidendi

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The dispositive ratio is that under s.24(1) the tribunal may appoint a manager (not a receiver), but may vest in that manager such functions as the tribunal thinks fit, including functions ordinarily exercisable by a receiver where those functions are ancillary to the management role; on appeal the Lands Chamber may amend a management order to remove erroneous or misleading terminology without remitting the matter.

Obiter dicta

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The judgment suggested obiter that, in an appropriate case, a manager could be described as a receiver if the functions conferred justify that description, and that typographical or plainly inadvertent inconsistencies in a management order may be corrected on appeal.

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