Fixed Penalty Notice in UK Law

  • Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis
    • Supreme Court
    • 04 Noviembre 2015
    ...... the law relating to contractual penalty clauses, or, as we will call it, the penalty ... that sum on such a transaction, the sum fixed must be a penalty. In the sense of direct and ... of the Sellers to require Cavendish, by a Notice served at any time between 1 January and 31 March ......
  • International Transport Roth GmbH and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 Febrero 2002
    ...... and Asylum Act, 1999 was passed and a new penalty regime created to deter those intentionally or ... within 60 days of service of the penalty notice if the liability falls to be discharged. Section ..., are liable for each such entrant to a fixed penalty of £2,000 unless they can establish: (i) ......
  • Broome v Cassell & Company Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Febrero 1972
    ...... exceed the amount by which the required penalty (if that is the right word) exceeds the required .... . 89 The next point to notice is that it has always been a principle of English ... 149 Damages for any tort are or ought to be fixed at a sum which will compensate the plaintiff, so ......
  • Gouriet v Union of Post Office Workers
    • House of Lords
    • 26 Julio 1977
    ...... for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding £20". . . 14 It ... ex parte was granted at once, without any notice having been given to it. There was no evidence of ... orders, which are governed by no fixed technical rules as to locus standi or ......
  • Ridehalgh v Horsefield; Watson v Watson (Wasted Costs Orders)
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 26 Enero 1994
    ...... . 18 Notice was duly given to the solicitors and a further ... practice or other serious professional penalty. It covers any significant breach of a ... tenancy which arose on expiry of the last fixed term tenancy in October 1989 was accordingly an ......
  • Adams v Cape Industries Plc
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 Julio 1989
    ...... personal knowledge and attested to under penalty of perjury". As a result of those directions, and ... 2 claims against the United States was fixed for 20th June 1983. Settlement was discussed. An ... a proviso for termination on 12 months' notice. The duties imposed on CPC were to carry out the ......
  • White and Carter (Councils) Ltd v McGregor
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Diciembre 1961
    ...... debated whether this clause provides a penalty or liquidated damages but on the view which I ... of his scheme of acting wrongfully, gave notice that he would not fulfil the contract. … He had ...This plainly was a contract of hire for a fixed period which had been commenced and under which ......
  • R (McCann) v Manchester Crown Court
    • House of Lords
    • 17 Octubre 2002
    ...... not, however, accompanied by a hearsay notice under the Magistrates' Courts (Hearsay Evidence ... that it is preferable to apply a single fixed standard of a balance of probabilities. ...The penalty for breach is punishment for contempt of court. ......
  • Warner v Metropolitan Police Commissioner; R v Warner
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 1968
    ...... has been infringed he must pay the penalty. This may well seem unjust but it is a ... if they were alert they would at least notice something suspicious. Lord Parker pointed out the ... intention needed, leaving these to be fixed in relation to the legal context in which the ......
  • Whitney v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • House of Lords
    • 06 Noviembre 1925
    ...... words of the statute so as to make this notice as a mere notice null and void." ..., which consists in this that there is a fixed proportion between the weight of the air fed into ... liable to an immediate and a continuing penalty. By what right such a penalty could even in ......
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