February’s PLC Column: Default Notices and ‘Doyle’
February 21, 2019In February’s Practical Law lending column Thomas Samuels considers the status of default notices in light of the recent judgment in Doyle v PRA...
January’s PLC Column: Claims Management Regulation
February 4, 2019In January’s Practical Law regulated lending column, Lee Finch considers the impact of the FCA taking over responsibility for the regulation of claims management companies,...
‘Doyle v PRA’: Limitation and Debt Claims
January 25, 2019The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Doyle v PRA Group (UK) Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 12. The case addresses the recurring question of...
Pension Cold Call Ban
January 9, 2019The Information Commissioner’s Office has announced a prohibition on all cold-calls in relation to personal pension schemes, to come into force from Thursday 10...
New Heads of Chambers
January 9, 2019Gough Square is delighted to announce that its new Heads of Chambers are Kevin de Haan, QC and Jonathan Goulding. Chambers expresses its thanks...
November’s PLC column: judgments on unenforceable agreements
December 18, 2018In November’s Practical Law regulated lending column, James Ross considers the status of judgments obtained in relation to unenforceable consumer credit agreements. Read the column...
High Court holds that a purchase by a TSO falls within CPUT
December 13, 2018On 9th November 2018, the High Court handed down Judgment in Warwickshire County Council v Halfords Autocentres Limited [2018] EWHC 3007 (Admin), allowing the...
Gough Square recognised as the leading consumer law set
November 1, 2018Both Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500 have ranked Gough Square Chambers as the only Band 1 set for Consumer Law. The Legal 500 said Gough...
Administrative Court rules that SIPP operator owed extensive duty of due dilligence
November 1, 2018The Administrative Court handed down judgment in R (Berkeley Burke SIPP Administration Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service on 30 October 2018, dismissing the judicial...
October’s PLC Column: FOS Expansion
October 26, 2018In October’s Practical Law regulated lending column, Thomas Samuels considers whether the proposed expansion of the jurisdiction of the Financial Ombudsman Service warrants an...
FOS jurisdiction to expand
October 18, 2018On 16 October 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") confirmed that, from 1 April 2019, the Financial Ombudsman Service's ("FOS") jurisdiction will expand to...
Sabrina Goodchild Joins as Tenant
October 9, 2018Gough Square is delighted to welcome Sabrina Goodchild as its new tenant. Sabrina read PPE at Oxford and represented England at the international mooting...