For these claims, the electronic information existing in the database was compared to the paper claim forms submitted by the claimants.

Claim preparers often attended interviews with claimants and frequently acted as interpreters.

Some claim preparers indicated that claimants were referred by employees of the Jordanian Ministry of Labour or the Amman office of the Palestinian Authority.

One of these claims competes with a previously paid category C claim the others compete with previously paid category D claims.

The awards for these category A claims should be reduced to the amounts appropriate to the proper status of the claims.

As the category D Palestinian late claims were not filed until the end of the regular category D work programme, matches between regular and Palestinian category D claims were identified upon review of the latter claims.

At the direction of the Panel, interviews were scheduled with the majority of these claimants.

In summary, the Panel's objective was to review the claims by applying established principles in a consistent and objective manner, having regard to the particular features of this claims population.

As the role of the claim preparers in the preparation of claims appeared to warrant further scrutiny, at the Panel's instruction, a number of claim preparers were interviewed during the technical mission to Jordan in January 2005.

Under the terms of the 1947 peace treaty with the Allies, Italy relinquished all claims to Libya.

The claim preparers were often listed as the contact persons in the claim files and some claim files included attestations from the claim preparers opining on the merits of the claim.

Claims

All of the competing claimants were interviewed during the technical missions to Kuwait and Jordan.

review of non overlapping claims in the FOURTHsecond group of overlapping claims

Some claimants indicated that they engaged a claim preparer after seeing advertisements placed in Kuwaiti newspapers offering assistance with the filing of Palestinian late claims .

(e) Medical claims

In particular, the Panel considered that it was appropriate to propose, as needed, adjustments to such awards in the light of new information and evidence presented.

Duplicate claims

Category C corrections Recommendations for corrections to category C claims are those arising from confirmed duplicate claims, discrepancies between the electronic and paper claim formats, and multiple recovery based on the duplication of claim awards.

Stand alone claims

A similar exercise was conducted with respect to category C for the purpose of identifying duplicate claims during claims processing.

Concerning the issue of duplicate claims, the secretariat indicated that it was aware of the risk of duplicate claims from the outset of claims processing and took steps to identify and eliminate such claims during the course of claims processing.

In connection with the claims by governments for loss of life and reduced quality of life of their nationals, Iraq asserts that the claims are inadmissible because the Claimants concerned lack legal standing to bring such claims before the Commission.

The Panel notes that common traits displayed by these claim preparers include their command of the English language and familiarity with the Commission's claim development procedures and jurisprudence from the regular claims programme.

The secretariat has also used these electronic searches for duplicate claims in the Palestinian late claims programme, the Bedouin programme and the category A and C late claims programme.

First F4 instalment, claim Nos. 5000363, 5000408 and 5000409.

Subsidiary claimants should similarly be recognized, including resident family members at the time of displacement, spouses, domestic partners, dependents, legal heirs and others who should be entitled to claim on the same basis as primary claimants.

Claims and Survey Unit

The total losses alleged in the instalment therefore are USD 35,972,592.

Where a claimant claims in a currency other than Kuwaiti dinars, the Panel values the claim in Kuwaiti dinars using the appropriate exchange rate.

The present report sets out the Panel's recommendations for a fourthsecond group of overlapping claims from resolved E4 instalments (the fourthsecond group of overlapping claims ).

Valuation of secured claims

Fourth, in some instances the information contained in the audited accounts was inconsistent with other evidence proffered by the claimants.

As for the question on trafficking in Ethiopian women, a number of claims had been submitted to the Labour Court with regard to incidents that had taken place in the mid 1990s.

Only unreasonable claims may be refused, but the state will bear the burden of proving unreasonableness.

Draft article 15 Category of claims

These claims are discussed below.

These E4 claims were considered in the second instalment of E4 claims.

This global approach was suited to the specifics of category C claims processing, as category C claims are subject to mass claims processing procedures and are not subject to extensive individual review or claim development.

Details of the claims or parts of claims that were deferred from previous F4 instalments or transferred from other claims categories are discussed in the relevant sections of this report.

Most Affluents seem unprepared for this change, but such demands will need to be accommodated.

Recommendations for corrections to category A claims include the following kinds of corrections duplicate claims, higher to lower amounts, family to individual and change of submitting responsible entity.

The Panel recalls that in its Sixth Instalment Report it identified three streams of claimants in order to address the varying circumstances of claimants, in particular the quality and quantity of business records available to support individual claims.

During their interviews, the claim preparers denied that they fabricated or altered evidence to bolster a claim or assisted claimants without valid losses to fabricate claims.

In addition to initial fees and disbursements, claim preparers often charged contingency fees based on the outcome of the claims.