LDC (Ferry Lane 2) GP3 Limited & Ors v Maria Ayoob & Ors

Decision date: 3 July 2025

Neutral citation: [2025] UKUT 205 (LC)

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Short overview

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This appeal concerned whether the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) was fair or lawful to reach different outcomes in 113 applications despite identical background facts to earlier North Lodge decisions involving the same landlord and properties. The Upper Tribunal held the FTT acted irrationally (or failed to take into account a relevant consideration), set aside the FTT decision and substituted an order that 50% of the rent is repayable in each case. The Upper Tribunal declined to remit for rehearing as disproportionate.

Ratio decidendi

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Where identical facts, the same landlord and the same properties are involved, a tribunal must not reach inconsistent outcomes without a relevant factual basis for doing so; in such circumstances an appellate tribunal may set aside and substitute a decision rather than remit when a rehearing would be disproportionate given the small amounts in dispute.

Obiter dicta

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The judgment indicated that reliance on wider Upper Tribunal decisions for guidance is legitimate but does not fix precedential amounts for awards, and observed that the argument about rule 23 (lead case status) was unnecessary to the decision.

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