Sentences with phrase «gratia payments»
Western Australian government announces a Redress Scheme to provide ex gratia payments for children who have suffered harm in State Care.
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deliver compensation to members of the Stolen Generations in Commonwealth jurisdictions (Northern Territory, ACT and Jervis Bay), including, ex gratia payments of $ 75,000 to living Stolen Generations survivors and one - off payments of $ 7,000 under a Funeral Assistance Fund
It is interesting to note by comparison that at present the Queensland government has introduced the Redress Scheme to provide ex gratia payments to people who experienced abuse and neglect as children in Queensland institutions.
Another issue of particular concern for governments is whether the provision of assessed or ex gratia payments under any administrative (that is, non-curial and non-tribunal) scheme, would necessarily displace any additional civil action in the courts concerning the same issue (as would appear to be the intended effect of Rec.
Indeed, the Federal Government recently demonstrated its capacity to provide redress to Australian Defence Force Prisoners of War of the Japanese, by committing ex gratia payments of $ 25,000 to each Prisoner of War, civilian internees and detainees of the Japanese or their surviving spouses.
At present, there are variations between States and Territories as to whether ex gratia payments are available, in what circumstances, and as to the level of payments.
HREOC notes that a number of schemes have recently been introduced nationally which compensate or provide ex gratia payments to individuals, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who have variously been subject to institutional care or abuse in care; who have had their wages and savings controlled; or who have been forcibly removed from their families.
Compensation can be considered on top of certain ex gratia payments made to provide redress.
Police forces do sometimes make ex gratia payments or pay compensation following such damage, for example where the raid was at the wrong premises.
In the end, 286 people received ex gratia payments ranging from $ 8,000 to $ 24,000.
The defendant argued before the Court of Appeal that ex gratia payments made by a defendant occupied a special position: such payments did not «accrue» as a result of death.
Gary Nimako also alleged that some of the ex-ministers took ex gratia payments as MPs and as Ministers.
The Minority Spokesperson on Energy and Mines, K.T. Hammond, says recipients of the ex gratia payments by the Ghana National Petroleum Commission (GNPC), should be languishing in prison, calling the payment to Tsatsu Tsikata and three others, «criminal.»
In addition, it would be an ex gratia payment, with no strings attached as to how the money could be used.
Baron is campaigning for Cameron to make a statement to parliament acknowledging the issue and an ex gratia payment of # 25 million into a benevolent fund for veterans and their descendants.
Be that as it may, it is the combination of the failure of the state to regulate this point beyond the Housing Act 1988, combined with the lack of compensation to the buyer, which frames this issue within the terms of A1P1 and possibly represents the best opportunity for some restitution of the buyer's share (in the absence of an ex gratia payment).
An employer ordered by the Ontario Small Claims Court to pay severance despite having provided their former employee a total of sixty - two (62) weeks working notice and ex gratia payment upon termination.
The decision of the House of Lords in R (O'Brien) v Independent Assessor [2007] UKHL 10, [2007] All ER (D) 239 (Mar) will be of importance not only to people who have an existing claim for compensation under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (CJA 1988), s 133 but also for those whose claims had been accepted, by 19 April 2006, for an ex gratia payment.
Not exact matches
The society agreed to fork out the ex gratia advance of awards after several of the solicitors accused of providing a shoddy service deferred payment pending a hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).