Both 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 Square Chambers is: ‘top of the tree for consumer work’ with a set ‘full of genuine experts and specialists’ who are ‘user friendly and commercially aware’. Chambers is also ranked in […]

The Administrative Court handed down judgment in R (Berkeley Burke SIPP Administration Ltd) v Financial Ombudsman Service on 30 October 2018, dismissing the judicial review challenge. The claimant sought to challenge a decision of the FOS in relation to an overseas investment held in a self-invested personal pension (SIPP) wrapper. The disputed FOS determination concluded […]

In October’s Practical Law regulated lending column, Thomas Samuels considers whether the proposed expansion of the jurisdiction of the Financial Ombudsman Service warrants an overhaul of the underlying statutory scheme. Read the column here.

On 16 October 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) confirmed that, from 1 April 2019, the Financial Ombudsman Service’s (“FOS”) jurisdiction will expand to cover approximately 210,000 additional small and medium enterprises (“SMEs”). Following a consultation launched in January this year, the FCA determined that the FOS’ jurisdiction should expand to cover SMEs with an […]

Gough Square is delighted to welcome Sabrina Goodchild as its new tenant. Sabrina read PPE at Oxford and represented England at the international mooting finals in The Hague. Her profile may be viewed here.

In September’s Practical Law regulated lending column, Ruth Bala considers applications for FCA validation orders following Plaxedes Chickombe & ors v FCA and Clydesdale Financial Services Ltd t/a Barclays Partner Finance [2018] UKUT 0258 (TCC). Read the column here.

On 2 August 2018, the FCA published its Interim Report in its Consumer Credit Review (Discussion Paper DP18/7). The FCA took over regulation of consumer credit on 1 April 2014 and, at that point, a number of provisions which had previously been contained in the the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (“the CCA”) and associated Regulations were replaced […]

On 17 July HM Treasury published the Consumer Credit (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018. These draft Regulations will come into force on the date that the UK withdraws from the EU. The most notable feature is the abolition of the names “SECCI” (the Standard European Consumer Credit Information) and, for overdrafts, “ECCI” (the European Consumer Credit Information) to […]

In July’s Practical Law lending column, James Ross discusses parties’ ability to contract out of the CCA in light of Carney v N M Rothschild & Sons Ltd [2018] EWHC 958 (Comm). Read the column here.

Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Banca Nazionale del Lavoro v Playboy Club London ([2018] UKSC 43). The claim related to a reference provided by the Defendant bank in relation to a high net worth individual for a line of credit to gamble at the Claimant’s club. The reference was obtained by […]