Recovering costs: First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) (T547)

This guide helps you understand what happens about the costs, fees and expenses in an application to the First-tier Tribunal Property Chamber (Residential Property).

You usually must pay your own expenses and legal costs. However, the tribunal can order the other party to pay costs when:

• there is a written contract or lease allowing a party (usually a landlord) to claim costs from the other party (usually a tenant)
• an act of parliament says so
• a party’s legal representative has unreasonably increased costs incurred by another party (sometimes called a ‘wasted costs’ order)
• a party has unreasonably brought, defended or conducted the case