The judge also imposed a payment plan to clear the club's €90m debt, which has been successfully adhered to, reducing the debt by almost two-thirds, and appointed three administrators to the club.
That was no mistake but a deliberate decision, however: The victorious powers were keen not to repeat the mistakes of the Versailles Treaty, which imposed drastic payments on Germany following World War I -- payments that were so unbearably high that they led to the eventual collapse of the newly founded Weimar Republic.
The historical precedent, he noted, was grim: "After the First World War, when the French imposed reparation payments on Germany, then they were sort of the tough taskmasters, they occupied the Saar, and the result was the rise of Hitler.
Unlike the highly criticised action taken by Premier Foods, which last year imposed "prebate" payments on their suppliers for the privilege of preserving trade relationships, First Milk probably feels hard done by.
Ensor [ 15] argues that one of the main types of informal payments is when medical staff misuse their power and market position to impose extra payments, (other reasons include payments for extra services due to insufficient funding).
He could have done it the conventional way, imposing lower payment rates across the board for providers, while preparing himself for battle with the health care industry.
It said some lenders might restrict their lending, or stop it altogether, or might find other ways to make money from their loans by imposing late payment fees.
In London riders providing on-the-ground delivery services for another company in this space, Deliveroo, went on strike this summer — after the company tried to impose new payment terms.
The embargo also takes food off the table in Cuban homes, by blocking the government's access to imported seeds, fertilizers, and spare parts for farm machinery, and by imposing exotic payment rules that add tens of millions of dollars to its bill for importing food from overseas.
Davidson faces just under two years on rations, with payment imposed at £5 a week plus 100 hours of unpaid community work as punishment for the offence.
The payment, imposed by the regulator Ofgem, is the biggest of its kind.
