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Enforcement of undertaking to redeem charge

  • Wragge & Co LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 20 2009

A vendor's solicitor is required to comply with an undertaking to redeem charges over their client's property, notwithstanding that the sum due under the charges is double the purchase price

Managing the threat of payment fraud

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 10 2010

Payment fraud, where a consumer uses someone else's payment details to make a purchase, is an increasing burden on the UK economy

Authority in a borrower’s mortgage application is an effective waiver of legal professional privilege

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 17 2011

The claimant lender, Mortgage Express, sought production of a number of files of a predecessor firm (the firm) of the defendant solicitor, where the firm had acted for both Mortgage Express and its borrowers

Do you have the power?

  • Howes Percival LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 11 2011

Prudent planners arrange their affairs to take account of circumstances which might arise in the future

Limits of authority

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 3 2011

A great advantage of powers of attorney is the flexibility permitted to the drafter in crafting the attorney's powers

Cheshire Mortgage Corporation Limited and Blemain Finance Limited v Morna Gandison and Balfour and Manson, 23 September 2011.

  • Morton Fraser
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 9 2011

Two Outer House cases in which Cheshire Mortgage and Blemain Finance (connected companies) were the victims of a mortgage fraud and sought to sue the solicitors instructed by the fraudsters (the banks had instructed separate solicitors) for breach of warranty of authority

Solicitors Regulation Authority issues guidance on PPI claims

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • January 19 2012

On 4 January 2012, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (the SRA) issued guidance to solicitors on their professional duties when dealing with claims relating to mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI

One ombudsman, two ombudsmen, three ombudsmen, more?

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 31 2011

In a world where the various ombudsmen are replacing the Courts for the resolution of consumer claims, what happens when two or more respondent firms are covered by the jurisdiction of different ombudsman schemes? For example, what if a mortgage borrower wants to claim against his conveyancing solicitor and his mortgage broker at the same time?

Statutory interest and the real world time to bridge the gap?

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 24 2011

In the UK it is accepted that the aim of compensation is to put a person back into the position they would have been in had they not suffered loss

Solicitors’ liability for breach of trust

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 24 2011

Where the defendant firm of solicitors had paid away mortgage monies to the vendors’ purported solicitors who did not exist in breach of the Council of Mortgage Lenders’ (CML) Handbook, they were liable to the lender for breach of trust