Friday, 9 July 2010

10:00-10:45 | Registration

Registration; tea and coffee TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College Oxford

10:45-12:45 | Session 1

Chair: Malcolm Gammie CBE QC (One Essex Court)

Unjust enrichment and public bodies: a hybrid approach Dr Rebecca Williams (Oxford)
Reasons for restitution: Reassessing Woolwich Dr Charlie Webb (LSE)
Change of position: A defence of “unjust disenrichment” Prof James Edelman (Oxford)
Change of position as unjust disenrichment – A reply to Prof Edelman William Swadling (Oxford)

12:45-14:00 | Lunch

14:00-15:45 | Session 2

Chair: David Ewart QC (Pump Court Tax Chambers)

Mistaken overpayments of tax Dr Duncan Sheehan (UEA)
Recovery of overpaid taxes in Ireland – from Murphy v AG to Harris v Quigley Dr Niamh Connolly (TCD)
San
 Giorgio
 and
 the 
domestic
 law
 of 
restitution
 – 
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relationship
 revisited Maximilian Schlote (Oxford)

15:45-16:15 | Tea and coffee

16:15-18:00 | Session 3

Chair: Zoe O’Sullivan (One Essex Court)

Public law restitutionary claims: the German perspective Dr Birke Häcker (Munich)
The recovery of ultra vires payments by public bodies Prof Charles Mitchell (Oxford)
Property, proportionality and change of position Niamh Cleary (TCD)

Evening

18:30 Drinks reception, on the Chestnut Lawn (weather permitting)
19:30 Dinner in Hall

Saturday, 10 July 2010

08:00 Breakfast (for resident delegates)

09:00-10:45 | Session 4

Chair: Claire Reffin (One Essex Court)

A critical look at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell v IRC Laura Farrell (TCD/Law Library Dublin)
Absence of Problems? A German lawyer’s critical perspective on an absence of basis analysis of Woolwich Dr Anne Sanders (Cologne / BverfG)
Canadian perspectives Prof Robert Chambers (UCL)

10:45-11:15 | Tea and coffee

11:15-13:00 | Session 5

Chair: The Hon Mr Justice Henderson

Defences to claims for restitution of overpaid tax James Lee (Birmingham)
Restitution of overpaid tax in Australia: the Woolwich principle Prof Simone Degeling (UNSW)
Judicial techniques in relation to remedies for overpaid tax Prof Catherine Barnard (Cambridge) & Julian Ghosh QC (Cambridge / Leiden / Pump Court)

13:00-14:00 | Lunch

Conference ends

Also available at the conference

When can change of position be a defence to claims for restitution of unlawfully exacted tax? Prof Elise Bant (Melbourne)

Delegates may download papers here.

Other papers expected for the book

Interest after Sempra Dr Tariq Baloch (Freshfields, Dubai / LSE)
Tax, restitution and Hastings-Bass Monica Bhandari (KCL)
Duress colore offici Prof Nelson Enonchong (Birmingham)
Tax, rights and the stability of unjust enrichment Prof Steve Hedley (Cork)
The San Giorgio principle: invalid taxes, unjust enrichment and EU law Dr Eoin O’Dell (TCD)