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"In the eyes of the Tribunal the review letter contained several preconceptions, prejudgments and non-sequiturs"
"the absurdity of this reason is demonstrated by simply stating it"
"We therefore find that Mr Sked misdirected himself as to the Policy in carrying out the review and his decision is therefore one that no reasonable review officer could have arrived at."
... commonly known here at N2D as 'Skeds' ... that is to say these are Judges comments regarding UKBA Review Officer Ian Sked's reasons for rejecting peoples appeals against seizures.
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Wow, if anyone can extract any meaning from that, I'll be impressed!
ReplyDeleteAnd,"Borislav Borisov"??? WTF?
I'm reminded of "Life of Brian", where Brian believes that his father was a Roman called "Biggus Dickus".
If SH responds to this letter, he'll be told that there's no such person? "It's a joke name, you stupid English person!"
Boris say if you know what good for you accept this reply as answer then go away and not come back!
ReplyDeleteI am sure UKBA will accept this letter for bringing all your cigarettes and tobacco into the country!!
ReplyDeleteIt's just a fob off letter or at least that what it looks like to me
karl
Actually, to be fair, I think I do know what he is saying.
ReplyDeleteHe is saying that the words "Duty Free" are kind of generic and not to be taken literally.
And he refers you to the official receipt ("the fiscal cash slip from fiscal device..." etc) which would have been issued to you in the shop and which would state that all taxes and dues had been paid at the appropriate level.
My Bulgarian is worse than his English, by a long way, and at a level as defined by art.3 para xii of the Law on Literal Translation, sect iv 1993.
Oh l've got to respond ... they're the only ones talking to me.
ReplyDeleteBritish Embassy in Sofia BG, UKBA and HMRC won't! So much for stopping dodgy imports of tobacco!
@Lysistrata ... problem is that all cigarettes have to have duty paid stickers on all the packets and of course the duty free ones don't. UKBA say (verbally)they will confiscate them regardless of any receipt.
ReplyDeleteOpen season on UK smokers!
ReplyDeleteBabelfish lives.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I'm a qualified translator and although I don't speak Bulgarian , I'm pretty used to mangled English (Denglish being my native tongue as it were).
"and accounted by way of issuing fiscal cash slip from fiscal device of approved for"
Boris is saying that , although the packets bear the 'Duty Free' sticker, your till receipt should state that infact it is 'Duty Paid' and that the till receipt is proof.
...which of course it isn't in the eyes of UKBA
l'm certain the UKBA are fluent in Bulgarian Cyrillic!
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't the airport just sell the proper duty paid cigarettes like they do in Sofia airport?
ReplyDeleteanon 09.54
ReplyDeletecos that would put paid to the white envelopes for the customs there! ;-)