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In my Opinion , Your contractual rights to Interest on Back pay can only be determined by your individual employment contract (which is probably completely silent on the matter). Custom & Practice and the application of internal processes to your colleagues' T&C's may be relevant to your claim under the Equal Pay Act. I suggest the following given your fairly recent tenure with your employers If you have a trade union or staff association body raise the issue on a generalistic and non -identifiable basis through them. In the absence of the above and your presumed requirement to retain your current employment tread carefully. You may wish to keep bated breath until at least you have enjoyed/endured one year's employment with the Company. At that point you wil enjoy certain legal protection in relation to your current employment and your employer will or should be expected to be aware of this. This should allow you (if you so desire at that time) to put in a backdated claim with minimal chance of receiving the ultimate sanction. In the real world, I would recommend you undertake a mental cost/benefit analysis of taking this step. This is only an opinion given by an individual who asserts no legal background or qualifications but seeks to assists others throught the exercise of opinons gained through life experience. Please Read,Interpret and Action entirely at your own risk. Finally, Good Luck

Anyone considered the merits of including the cost of the highlighter pen in their court case. Would we be justified in buying the full pack of four for the sake of clarity?

Good Luck to you! I think you have established a new contract with them ... so may sure they abide to it by the letter.... if they breach the contract may they pay hot & heavy!

Have you send them a copy of your T & C's ? I wouldn't be too concerned if they are legal or enforceable as that's the way the banks seem to like them!

Just to Let you all know that Halifax have now verbally agreed to give me a 100% Refund in respect of all Unpaid items and Monthly charges for the last 6 Years. This is a 3 Figure Sum. Initial offer was arbitrary and quickly refused. Time from sending First email is 9 Days! Approximately another 3 Emails and 5 Phonecalls to various people was enough to convince them of our consumer rights and commitment to pursue for 100% refund. Whilst, I didn't send the letters on the site, The information contained within them was powerful enough to succinctly reject their prevarication, their biased interpretation of the OFT Ruling, advise them of the law of the land and demonstrate my tenacity for full settlement. Best Wishes to all & I will be pleased to send donation for book-tokens etc. on receiving the full offer in writing and subsequent refund. I think their offices are now creaking under the pressure of multiple claims and I am convinced that all of us who show sufficient commitment to this can only succeed at the point of our choosing!

It occurs to me from reading this forum that the banks standard practice appears in many cases to offer 50% refund of the disputed fees. Now given that there are bound to be many errors, additions and omissions in each person's claims does this not indicate that the banks are not actually gong through each individul's claims to ascertain the levied charges. If this is the case maybe we should all claim 200% to quickly arrive at the desired 100% refund!