Repayment of rates

Repayment of rates - 1988 - Times 18/3/88, p30 .

In R v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council Ex parte Chetnik Developments Ltd , HL 17 March 1988, it was held that where General Rate Act 1967 s9 authorised a refund of an amount paid in respect of rates in compliance with a demand which the ratepayer might successfully have resisted the rating authority should not retain such payments unless there were special circumstances in which a particular overpayment was made such as to justify retention.