Hi, it’s Deborah and Euzi
In a recent court case the Thurrock Council imposed a £10,000 penalty on the Respondent, Mr Daoudi for operating a house in multiple occupation (HMO) without a licence. Mr Daoudi successfully appealed to the First-tier Tribunal (FTT), which decided that no penalty should have been imposed because Mr Daoudi had claimed not to know that his property needed an HMO licence, because he promptly applied for one when threatened with prosecution and because it was not clear how well the local authority had published its licensing scheme before it came into force. The Upper Tribunal (UT) set aside the FTT decision and imposed a penalty of £4,000 on Mr Daoudi, deciding that the FTT had taken into account irrelevant factors when reaching its decision. The UT stressed that even though Mr Daoudi had promptly applied for a licence when threatened with prosecution, there is still a need to impose penalties which deter other landlords from committing licensing offences.
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