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HMO—landlord liable for RRO despite company landlord Cabo v Dezotti [2022] UKUT 240 (LC), [2022] All ER (D) 11 (Sep)	The Court of Appeal handed down judgment on 6 November 2025.	The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that the Upper Tribunal (UT) had been justified in concluding that the appellant had been an undisclosed principal under an occupation agreement and had therefore been the respondent’s landlord for the purposes of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (HPA 2016) such that a rent repayment order could be made. The UT had dismissed an appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT), ordering the appellant freehold owner of a property to repay rent of £9,600 to the respondent. The UT found that the FTT had been entitled to find that the appellant had been the defendant’s landlord and that she could be the subject of a rent repayment order under the HPA 2016. The appellant's name had not been on the so-called holiday letting agreement under which the respondent had occupied

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