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Case Number: UT/2024/000060
Remote video hearing
JUDICIAL REVIEW – DISCLOSURE – Claimant’s interlocutory application for disclosure of documents (internal discussions and communication in run- up to issue of HMRC decision letter to refuse out of time claim) - documents not necessary for fair and just resolution of issues in case – application dismissed
Judgment date: 7 October 2024
Before
UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE SWAMI RAGHAVAN
Between
THE KING (on the application of)
RETTIG HEATING GROUP UK LIMITED
(IN LIQUIDATION)
Claimant
and
THE COMMISSIONERS FOR HIS MAJESTY’S REVENUE AND CUSTOMS
Defendants
Representation:
For the Claimant: Michael Firth KC, counsel, instructed by Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP
For the Defendants: Malcolm Birdling and Laura Ruxandu, counsel, instructed by the General Counsel and Solicitor to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
DECISION
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- Introduction
- Background
- Claimant’s Grounds of judicial review and HMRC’s defence
- Ground 1
- Ground 2
- Grounds 3-5
- HMRC Officer Ms Murphy’s 23 August 2024 Witness Statement
- Legal principles
- The disclosure sought and outline of parties’ submissions
- Discussion
- Inconsistencies mean disclosure appropriate?
- Whether disclosure necessary to resolve issues fair and justly in relation to issues raised
- Conclusions
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