BVI property company gets £138k liability orders for rates set aside

A property investment company in the British Virgin Islands has successfully applied for liability orders worth £138,800 for unpaid non-domestic rates to be set aside.

The London Borough of Brent had obtained liability orders on the basis that the company had been in rateable occupation of six separate hereditaments since 2007. 

A district judge sitting at Willesden Magistrates' Court is reported to have accepted that there was a genuine and arguable dispute about whether they had in fact been; that the liability orders had been obtained as a result of a substantial procedural defect; and that the application to set aside the orders had been made promptly.

George Mackenzie of Francis Taylor Building acted for the successful applicant, which has since been acquired by London Irish Partners. He was instructed by Fergus Buckley and Kirsten Jepsen of Fladgate LLP.