The only logic that justified £9,000 fees is one that saw them as a stepping stone towards a fully private system – following in the footsteps of the US, where student debt now totals well over $1tn.
He had more than justified his fee – for just 100 rupees ($1.60, even less if you're willing to haggle), the porter had done us a great service.
But some people found the convenience of the big travel sites justified paying the fee.
Nigel Tait, of Peter Carter Ruck and Partners, who has taken on CFAs against newspapers, says success fees are justified, given the nature of the risks involved.
Mobile operators have said the current level of termination fees was justified because of the huge fees they paid to E.U. member governments earlier in the decade for licenses to operate high-speed data networks.
This is unfair to the Guardian.' Nigel Tait, of Peter Carter Ruck and Partners, who has taken on CFAs against newspapers, says success fees are justified, given the nature of the risks involved.
It rubbished its claims that fees are justified because employment tribunals only benefit those who use them, not society at large, akin to arguing that victims of crime should fund the police through a system of charges.
What makes justified beliefs justified?
Visa says the fee was justified because signature debit was so much more useful than PIN debit; at the time, roughly 15percentt of merchants had keypads for entering a PIN.
The State presents no argument here, as it did below, that the additional fee makes out-of-state generators pay their "fair share" of the costs of Alabama waste disposal facilities, or that the additional fee is justified as a "compensatory tax". The Trial Court rejected these arguments, App. to Pet. for Cert.
Instead, the lawsuit says, Grant & Eisenhofer partner Jay Eisenhofer submitted an affidavit to the court suggesting a 17.5% fee was justified but that lawyers had unilaterally reduced that to 14%, or about $464 million, plus $30 million in expenses.
