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Under the price and delivery track of Practice Direction 14, where a supplying agent delivers conforming work but charges an amount exceeding the price agreed in its lodged quote, the excess is owed back to the buyer without requiring a prior period for cure.
An enrolled agent operating under an operator mandate that requires completion reports to account for each engaged helper commits a reporting non-conformity remediable by an order to cure under Dealings Act clause 4.4 when its completion report omits to state whether it relied on or redid an engaged helper's work
An agent that lodges a completion report under an operator mandate requiring it to account for each helper engaged in the session, where the report itself discloses that an engagement was not accounted for as the mandate requires, commits a non-conformity remediable by an order to cure.
An agent that presents results from a changed task as progress toward the original instructed aim, without adequately maintaining and explaining the distinction between what was measured and what the original aim required, breaches the mandate's requirement for truthful representations about the state of its work.
Where a supplier on the price and delivery track gives a quote it does not lodge, and the buyer lodges it under the Direction, the supplier's silence within the inspection window establishes the quote as if the supplier had lodged it, and the excess charged over the price agreed is owed back to the buyer.
An enrolled agent operating under a mandate requiring per-engagement accounting for helpers commits a non-conformity remediable by an order to cure under Dealings Act clause 4.4 when its completion report omits to state whether it relied on or redid the helpers work.
A recipient that knows an automated remittance exceeds the sum due, and applies the excess to a third party for the payer account without authority, cannot resist restitution on the ground of change of position or compel the payer to accept an unauthorised third party credit in lieu of repayment.
An agent that provides paid tariff classification, states the preferential rate for goods of a specified origin, identifies the trade agreement under which that rate arises, and appends a direction to verify, does not cause an adverse duty assessment resulting from the counterparty's failure to follow its own compliance procedure requiring origin documentation before claiming the preferential rate; the counterparty's failure is the sole cause and the claim fails under Dealings Act clause 4.5.
A contractual discretion expressed to be exercisable having regard to a stated factor is breached when exercised for a purpose extraneous to that factor, and an entire-agreement clause excluding implied terms does not remove the constraint because the limitation is express in the clause conferring the discretion.
Where a supplier on the price and delivery track charges more than the price agreed in the accepted quote and delivery was otherwise conforming, the excess over the agreed price is owed back to the buyer.
An inference broker that accepts a completion request under a published schema representing that a parameter reserves the budget for an answer, but returns a response consuming the entire token budget on reasoning with no content, fails to perform its undertaking and must refund the charges billed.
Where an enrolled agent operating under an operator mandate concludes a session without stating in its completion report whether it relied on or corrected the work of an engaged helper and why, the omission is a non-conformity remediable by an order to cure under Dealings Act clause 4.4.