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Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (2006) is a book edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English unjust enrichment law and restitution. Content [ edit ]
The law responds to each of them by imposing an obligation to pay compensatory damages. Restitution for wrongs is the subject which deals with the issue of when exactly the law also responds by imposing an obligation to make restitution. Example. In Attorney General v Blake, [25] an English court found itself faced with the following claim. The ...
Paroline v. United States, 572 U.S. 434 (2014), is a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that to recover restitution under 18 U.S.C. § 2259, the government or the victim must establish a causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and the victim's harm or damages.
Truskowski said the jury convicted Owens on the three felony theft counts that totaled $37,986, while Barr argued the restitution was about $17,000 as Owens had performed work on the house and ...
Jan. 30—An eastern Kentucky natural gas company owner has agreed to pay Somerset Gas Services more than $1.2 million in restitution after pleading guilty to manipulating gas meters to make it ...
A former Fresno IRS employee who also worked as a private tax preparer was sentenced Thursday for 13 felonies related to identity theft and wire and tax fraud.
Pavey & Mathews would have received less restitution only if Mrs Paul had withdrawn her promise before the work had begun, but the builders had gone ahead anyway. Also, the quantum meruit (the amount rewarded) could be no higher than the objective market rate for the work, even if Mrs Paul’s promise was for a higher price.
The following is an excerpt about the change of position defence at work. The Change Of Position Issue. 76 As Mr Howe correctly observed in the course of argument, “change of position” is what this case is really all about. 77 In Lipkin Gorman (above) the House of Lords recognised change of position as a defence to restitutionary claims. In ...