On 5 Feb, 17:59, "Peter Smyth" wrote:
As a punter, you've no knowledge of the internal processes of your
local council. If they pay cheques in automatically, thats entirely
their lookout. You gave a cheque with conditions attached to cashing
it, if they didn't read the conditions thats up to them.

(IANAL and there may be /other/ cases that establish you can't do the
above...)

IR v Fry is relevant here. Simply banking the cheque does not necessarily
imply acceptance of the offer.
http://www.andersonsolicitors.com/Downloads/IRvFry.pdf


Yup, that one works. Although note "practical points 2a-c" in the
linked document.

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