Gadens | Australia | 4 Mar 2024
Since around Aprill 2011, the Sheriff’s Office of Victoria has taken the view that they would not execute a court warrant of possession against a…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 4 Mar 2024
The Supreme Court of NSW has decided if an interest rate of 70.72% per annum made a short-term loan secured by residential mortgage unjust. This is…
Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP | United Kingdom | 26 Feb 2024
As of the first week of January, HM Land Registry announced that it had launched a pilot scheme in col…
Cozen O'Connor | USA | 22 Feb 2024
The FTC and California’s Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) obtained default judgments against six companies doing business as…
Taylor Wessing | United Kingdom | 20 Feb 2024
This case considered the exercise of powers by a security trustee and senior participant in a loan to settle debt owed by a mortgagor and…
Lexology PRO | Australia, China, Nigeria, etc. | 14 Feb 2024
Australian court rules on a crypto reward programme, Sweden prepares to crack down on excessive early fixed-term mortgage exit costs, the US CFPB proposes rules to rein in overdraft junk fees – plus other key updates.
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP | USA | 31 Jan 2024
The Alabama Supreme Court recently issued a major published decision on circumstances in which a residential borrower can challenge a mortgage…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 26 Jan 2024
Mascot Towers is a strata disaster. Locked out of their homes and business premises for almost 5 years, the Strata Law has failed the owners of Mascot…
CP LLP | Canada | 23 Jan 2024
Almost all mortgage agreements provide that if a mortgage goes into default, the borrower will be responsible for paying various fees and charges…
K&L Gates LLP | USA | 23 Jan 2024
Not often do courts explicitly reverse their own precedent, especially when that precedent was a unanimous 7-0 opinion issued only a few years…