Canary Riverside Estate Management Limited & Ors v Leaseholders Represented by The Residents' Association of Canary Riverside
Decision date: 5 September 2025
Neutral citation: [2025] UKUT 246 (LC)
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Short overview
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This appeal concerned FTT case management directions listing linked applications about renewal/variation of a tribunal-appointed manager's Order and related remediation funding and responsibilities for a building. The Upper Tribunal held the FTT was entitled to direct the linked matters to a single final hearing in October 2025 and had properly considered prosecution risk and other case-management factors. The appeal was dismissed in respect of the grounds challenged and the applications remain listed for the final hearing.
Ratio decidendi
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Where applications are inextricably linked, require overlapping evidence and time, and raise factual and legal issues that are best resolved together, a tribunal may properly exercise case-management powers to direct those applications to be determined together at a single final hearing rather than decide them at a preliminary hearing; in doing so a tribunal may form and take into account a view as to the likelihood of prosecution or urgency without impermissibly usurping other fora.
Obiter dicta
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The UT noted a potential statutory tension between provisions that prevent conferring Part 4 building-safety functions on a manager (s.2E) and provisions preventing variation/discharge of an order where there is a risk of recurrence (s.9A), suggesting one possible practical resolution is to leave the existing order in place until appropriate applications not subject to s.9A limitations are made; the UT also described earlier observations about the manager's continuing functions as tentative and made without full argument.