{"id":213,"date":"2020-11-12T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2020-11-12T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T14:22:33","slug":"first-rro-for-an-illegal-eviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/first-rro-for-an-illegal-eviction\/","title":{"rendered":"First RRO for an illegal eviction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This application (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/residential-property-tribunal-decisions\/6-byron-street-redfield-bristol-bs5-9nn-chi-00hb-hmf-2020-0006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coxswain v James CHI\/00HB\/HMB\/2020\/0006<\/a>) seemed to throw the book at the Respondent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Licensing<\/li><li>Illegal Eviction<\/li><li>Harassment<\/li><li>Failure to comply with Improvement Notice<\/li><li>Not supplying a Gas Safety Certificate (GSC)<\/li><li>Not protecting a deposit&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And after 2 Case Management Conferences (CMCs), an extended hearing, 34 pages of very careful and deliberate consideration in the judgment&#8230; a beautiful new baby was born: the first Rent Repayment Order (RRO) for an illegal eviction. \u00a31,560. At least we haven&#8217;t seen any others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, there were twins: the judgment gives a perfectly logical explanation of why rent arrears should not be taken into consideration in making a RRO award. Exactly as we have argued in a case we are currently seeking to appeal at the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber) (UT). As Judge Dobson rightly argues in this case: to reduce a RRO award for rent arrears doubly penalises a tenant:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-700x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-700x309.jpg 700w, https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-768x339.jpg 768w, https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The deliberations in the judgment are a masterpiece in how Tribunals should be assessing these cases, taking into consideration the recent decisions of the UT in <em>Vadamalayan<\/em> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/100-100-100\/\" target=\"_blank\">see our discussion here<\/a>) and <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/27\/appeal-win-sort-of\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chan<\/a><\/em> as well as the intended purposes of the Act when first considered in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, say you had an illegal eviction, harassment and a licensing offence made out: would that be one RRO or three? Watch this space&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This application (Coxswain v James CHI\/00HB\/HMB\/2020\/0006) seemed to throw the book at the Respondent: Licensing Illegal Eviction Harassment Failure to comply with Improvement Notice Not supplying a Gas Safety Certificate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getrentback.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}