Letts, Arthur v Director General of Social Security [1985] FCA 246

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(AEW) IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ) ) WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY ) No. WAG 1 of 1985 ) GENERAL DIVISION ) ON APPEAL FROM THE GENERAL DIVISTON OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL CONSTITUTED BY THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE J.D. DAVIES BETWEEN : a APTHUP LETTS Applicant and THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF SOCIAL SECURITY Respondent MINUTES OF ORDER COURT: Wocdward, Tachey and Pincus JJ. DATE: 29 May 1985 PLACE: Perth

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

The appeal be dismissed.

(Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with by 0.36 of the

Federal Court Rules).

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IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

WESTERN AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY No. WAG 1 of 1985

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GENERAL DIVISION

ON APPEAL FROM THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE

ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL CONSTITUTED PY

THE HONOURABLE MP JUSTICE J.D. DAVIES

BETWEEN :

= ARTHUR LETTS Arplicant and THE DIRECTCR GENERZL OF SCCIAL SECUPITY Respondent COURT: Woodward, Toohey and Pincus Jd. DATE: 29 May 1985 PLACE: Perth EX-TEMPOPE JUDGMENT WOODWARD J.

This is an appeal by Mr Arthur Letts against a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, constituted by Mr dustice Davies, which affirmed a decision of the Secretary of the Department of Social Security to deduct $8 per fortnight from Mr Letts' age pension. The deduction is being made because it is

alleged that Mr Letts, over a period of some time, received a sum

of about $7000 by making a false claim for an age pension in the name of Alan Ryan. Mr Letts was convicted of an offence under the

Crimes Act 1914 in relation to this matter.

Mr Letts is obviously suffering under a great sense of injustice over this conviction and over other dealings with the police and other persons in authority over the years, and although every member of the Court feels a considerable degree of sympathy for Mr Letts in the obvious distress from which he suffers, we can only be concerned with the possible errors of law in the decision