Naz v Redbridge LBC [2013] High Court

Mr Naz let a property to joint tenants. The council alleged that the property had been let to multiple tenants as a House in Multiple Occupation and billed the landlord for the council tax as the liability rested with the landlord. The landlord appealed to a valuation tribunal claiming that the whole property had been subject to a joint tenancy at the relevant time, he produced a written tenancy agreement supporting this.

The tribunal