Peers jailed for expenses fraud ordered to pay back £188,000 – Daily Telegraph

Posted September 27th, 2012 in expenses, false accounting, fraud, news, peerages & dignities, repayment by sally

“Two Tory peers jailed for fraudulently claiming thousands of pounds of parliamentary expenses have been ordered to pay back £188,000.”

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Daily Telegraph, 26th September 2012

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RAF cigarette smuggler Paul Garbutt told to pay back £80k – BBC News

Posted September 11th, 2012 in armed forces, drug trafficking, news, repayment, sentencing by tracey

“A former RAF senior aircraftman from Teesside jailed for his part in a cigarette smuggling operation has been ordered to pay back £80,000.”

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BBC News, 11th September 2012

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Type of interest due on overpaid tax is at discretion of national governments, ECJ says – OUT-LAW.com

Posted July 20th, 2012 in EC law, interest, news, repayment, VAT by tracey

“It is for European member states to determine how interest should be calculated on repayments of overpaid tax, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.”

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OUT-LAW.com, 19th July 2012

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MPs’ expenses: jailed trio ordered to pay back legal costs – Daily Telegraph

Posted December 16th, 2011 in costs, expenses, false accounting, news, parliament, repayment by tracey

“Three former Labour MPs who were jailed for fiddling their expenses have been ordered to pay back a total of £125,000 – less than half of the money spent on their court cases.”

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Daily Telegraph, 15th December 2011

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Peers who fail to repay wrongly claimed expenses to be banned from Lords – The Guardian

Posted December 14th, 2011 in debts, expenses, news, parliament, repayment by sally

“Disgraced peers who fail to repay wrongly claimed expenses are to be barred from returning to parliament.”

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The Guardian, 14th December 2011

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Legal Services Commission v Henthorn – WLR Daily

Posted December 2nd, 2011 in barristers, fees, law reports, legal aid, limitations, repayment by tracey

Legal Services Commission v Henthorn: [2011] EWCA Civ 1415;  [2011] WLR (D)  343

” A claim for recoupment of alleged overpayment of money paid on account to counsel, in respect of work done under a civil legal aid certificate, was governed by regulation 100(8) of the Civil Legal Aid Regulations 1989, and the cause of action accrued from the date of the ‘assessment’ there referred to, and time did not start to run until that date, not when the work was completed by counsel.”

WLR Daily, 30th November 2011

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Sharma and another v Simposh Ltd – WLR Daily

Posted November 28th, 2011 in deposits, law reports, repayment, sale of land by sally

Sharma and another v Simposh Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1383; [2011] WLR (D) 341

“Property in a deposit could pass to the vendor notwithstanding that the sale contract was void for non-compliance with the formal requirements of section 2 of the Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989, provided that the payment was not intended to be conditional upon completion of the transaction; and the vendor could retain the deposit if the purchaser had received the expected benefit.”

WLR Daily, 23rd November 2011

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