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    • no i meant the email from parcel2go which email address did they send it from and who signed it off (whos name is at the bottom)
    • I understand confusion with this thread.  I tried to keep threads separate because there have been so many angles.    But a team member merged them all.  This is why it's hard to keep track. This forum exists to help little people fight injustice - however big or small.  Im here to try get a decent resolution. Not to give in to the ' big boys'. My "matter' became complicated 'matters' simply because a lender refused to sell a property. What can I say?  I'll try in a nutshell to give an overview: There's a long lease property. I originally bought it short lease with a s.146 on it from original freeholder.  I had no concerns. So lender should have been able to sell a well-maintained lovely long lease property.  The property was great. The issue is not the property.  Economy, sdlt increases, elections, brexit, covid, interest hikes etc didn't help.  The issue is simple - the lender wanted to keep it.   House or Flat? Before repo I offered to clear my loan.  I was a bit short and lender refused.  They said (recorded) they thought the property was worth much more and they were happy to keep accruing interest (in their benefit) until it reached a point where they felt they could repo and still easily quickly sell to get their £s back.  This was a mistake.  The market was (and is) tough.   2y later the lender ceo bid the same sum to buy the property for himself. He'd rejected higher offers in the intervening period whilst accruing interest. Lenders have a legal obligation to sell the property for the best price they can get. If they feel the offer is low they won't sell it, because it's likely the borrower will say the same. I had the property under offer to a fantastic niche buyer but lender rushed to repo and buyer got spooked and walked.  It had taken a long time to find such a lucrative buyer.  A sale which would have resulted in £s and another asset for me. Post repo lender had 1 offer immediately.  But dragged out the process for >1y - allegedly trying to get other offers. But disclosure shows there was only one valid buyer. Again, points as above. Lender appointed receiver (after 4 months) - simply to try acquire the freehold.  He used his powers as receiver to use me, as leaseholder, to serve notice on freeholders.  Legally that failed. Meanwhile lender failed to secure property - and squatters got in (3 times).  And they failed to maintain it.  So freeholders served a dilapidations notice (external) - on me as leaseholder (cc-ed to lender).   (That's how it works legally) Why serve a delapidations notice? If it's in the terms of the lease to maintain the property to a good standard, then serve an S146 notice instead as it's a clear breach of the lease. I don't own the freehold.  But I am a trustee and have to do right by the freeholders.  This is where matters got/ get complicated.  And probably lose most caggers.   Lawyers got involved for the freeholders to firstly void the receiver enfranchisement notice. Secondly, to serve the dilapidations notice.  The lack of maintenance was in breach of lease and had to be served to protect fh asset. Enfranchisement isn't something that can be "voided", it's in the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 that leaseholders have the right to buy the freehold of the property. It's normal, whether it is a "normal" leaseholder or a repossession with a leasehold house, to claim this right of enfranchisement and sell the property with said rights attached and the purchase price of the freehold included in the final completion price. That's likely what the mortgage provider wished to do. The lender did no repairs. They said a buyer would undertake them. Which was probably correct. If they had sold. After 1y lender finally agreed to sell to the 1st offeror and contracts went with lawyers.  Within 1 month lender reneged.  Lender tried to suggest buyer walked. Evidence shows he/ his lawyers continued trying to exchange (cash) for 4 months.  Evidence shows lender and receiver strategy had been to renege and for ceo to take control.   I still think that's their plan. Redact and scan said evidence up for others to look at? Lender then stupidly chose to pretty much bulldoze the property.  Other stuff was going on in the background. After repo I was in touch by phone and email and lender knew post got to me.   Despite this, after about 10 months (before and then during covid), they deliberately sent SDs and eventually a B petition to an incorrect address and an obscure small court.  They never served me properly.  (In hindsight I understand they hoped to get a backdoor B - so they could keep the property that way.)  Eventually the random court told them to email me by way of service.  At this point their ruse to make me B failed.  I got a lawyer (friend paid). The B petition was struck out. They’d failed to include the property as an asset. They were in breach of insolvency rules. So this is dealt with then. Simultaneously the receiver again appointed lawyers to act on my behalf as leaseholder. This time to serve notice on the freeholders for a lease extension.  He had hoped to try and vary the strict lease. Evidence shows the already long length of lease wasn't an issue.  The lender obviously hoped to get round their lack of permission to do works (which they were already doing) by hoping to remove the strict clauses that prevent leaseholder doing alterations.  You wouldn't vary a lease through a lease extension. You'd need a Deed of Variation for that. This may be done at the same time but the lease has already been extended once and that's all they have a right to. The extension created a new legal angle for me to deal with.  I had to act as trustee for freeholders against me as leaseholder/ the receiver.  Inconsistencies and incompetence by receiver lawyers dragged this out 3y.  It still isn't properly resolved. The lease has already been extended once so they have no right to another extension. It seems pretty easy to just get the lawyer to say no and stick by those terms as the law is on your side there. Meanwhile - going back to the the works the lender undertook. The works were consciously in breach of lease.  The lender hadn't remedied the breaches listed in the dilapidations notice.  They destroyed the property.  The trustees compiled all evidence.  The freeholders lawyers then served a forfeiture notice. This notice started a different legal battle. I was acting for the freeholders against what the lender had done on my behalf as leaseholder.  This legal battle took 3y to resolve. Again, order them to revert it as they didn't have permission to do the works, or else serve an S146 notice for breach of the lease. The simple exit would have been for lender to sell. A simple agreement to remedy the breaches and recompense the freeholders in compensation - and there's have been clean title to sell.  That option was proposed to them.   This happened by way of mediation for all parties 2y ago.  A resolution option was put forward and in principle agreed.  But immediately after the lender lawyers failed to engage.  A hard lesson to learn - mediation cannot be referred to in court. It's considered w/o prejudice. The steps they took have made no difference to their ability to sell the property.  Almost 3y since they finished works they still haven't sold. ** ** I followed up some leads myself.  A qualified cash buyer offered me a substantial sum.  The lender and receiver both refused it.   I found another offer in disclosure.  6 months later someone had apparently offered a substantial sum via an agent.  The receiver again rejected it.  The problem of course was that the agent had inflated the market price to get the business. But no-one was or is ever going to offer their list price.  Yet the receiver wanted/wants to hold out for the list price.  Which means 1y later not only has it not sold - disclosure shows few viewings and zero interest.  It's transparently over-priced.  And tarnished. For those asking why I don't give up - I couldn't/ can't.  Firstly I have fiduciary duties as a trustee. Secondly, legal advice indicates I (as leaseholder) could succeed with a large compensation claim v the lender.  Also - I started a claim v my old lawyer and the firm immediately reimbursed some £s. That was encouraging.  And a sign to continue.  So I'm going for compensation.  I had finance in place (via friend) to do a deal and take the property back off the lender - and that lawyer messed up bad.   He should have done a deal.  Instead further years have been wasted.   Maybe I only get back my lost savings - but that will be a result.   If I can add some kind of complaint/ claim v the receiver's conscious impropriety I will do so.   I have been left with nothing - so fighting for something is worth it. The lender wants to talk re a form of settlement.  Similar to my proposal 2y ago.  I have a pretty clear idea of what that means to me.  This is exactly why I do not give up.  And why I continue to ask for snippets of advice/ pointers on cag.  
    • It was all my own work based on my previous emails to P2G which Bank has seen.
    • I was referring to #415 where you wrote "I was forced to try to sell - and couldn't." . And nearer the start in #79 .. "I couldn't sell.  I had an incredibly valuable asset. Huge equity.  But the interest accrued / the property market suffered and I couldn't find a buyer even at a level just to clear the debt." In #194 you said you'd tried to sell for four years.  The reason for these points is that a lot of the claims against for example your surveyor, solicitor, broker, the lender and now the receiver are mainly founded in a belief that they should have been able to do something but did not. Things that might seem self evident to you but not necessarily to others. Pressing these claims may well need a bit more hard evidence, rather than an appeal to common sense. Can you show evidence of similar properties, with similar freehold issues, selling readily? And solid reasons why the lender should have been able to sell when you couldn't.
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      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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RECLAIM YOUR BANK CHARGES thats the name of this campaign. On this site and others, many many people have sucessfully recovered their charges by following the excellent guides and template letters. Now it seems greed has overtaken reality, sayings like (going for every penny I can get)and (banks have screwed us for years now its our turn) lose track of the basic aim to RECLAIM YOUR BANK CHARGES.

Yes reclaim all your charges, allow the bank the statutory time scale to repay, and then if they still delay go down the appropriate route of FOS or SCC depending on the size of the claim in relation to Scottish or English law. If your going for SCC then and only then add 8% interest.

This situation where people are claiming ci which grossly inflates their claims and will only result in the banks refusal to pay, often delaying things. It also adds to the backlog for every other person claiming.

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05/03/07 S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) handed in at branch

Found missing statements at home !!!!

08/03/07 Prelim+ schedule posted rec del

22/03/07 :mad: No reply to prelim LBA posted rec del

05/04/07 :mad: 14 days and no reply to LBA, sent e-mail

27/04/07 :D Offered FULL SETTLEMENT £3375

03/05/07 Cash in bank account :D :D

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There is definitely an argument for why CI should be claimed for.....but I certainly agree with your post to a degree.

 

It does often seem that people can't see past the pound signs and there are a number of people who won't listen to reason and must claim for CI at all costs - even jeapordising their claim because they want CI.

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Ok - you have a right to express your opinion, but I must say I have to disagree.

 

Claiming back your contractual interest is a perfectly valid route. And one with which I have been recently successful. Why not? The banks would certainly charge the same for borrowing off them.

 

It's not greed at all. Some people on here are in a huge amount of debt because of the charges and interest on those charges. The banks have had this money for x amount of years and have made money on it.

 

Also looking at it another way, we have lost money on those charges. This is money we would have had in our bank accounts, incurring interest.

 

Lastly, banks will use their delaying tactics regardless of the inclusion of contractual interest, proof of which you will find all over these (and other) forums. They, and they alone, are causing the back log in the system, by waiting until the last possible minute to settle the claims.

 

Again, you have a right to your opinion, but I felt I had to say something before others were scared off going down the ci route.

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Monument Card: Claim served 30th Mar - Directions taken - 14 + 14 day deadline 18th June - settlement signed & waiting for cheque

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Hi Nikki, your comments are appreciated, but as for people to be in huge amounts of debt because of charges and interest I disagree. Everyone has the option to cancel a D/D or S/O if there is insufficient funds in their account. The same applies to writing cheques without funds as available as well. Whether the monies we have been charged would still be in our accounts gaining interest is a matter for debate.

As for the time scale taken to resolve claims I think the FOS advises 8 weeks before the will accept a complaint against the bank.

Reading some of the threads on here banks seem to get the blame for everthing from financial ruin to global warming. We all need the services if banks throughout our lives and more often than not we get good service. Our argument is the amount the banks charge for the above indescretions (of which Ive had a few, £3k worth) whether I would still have had this amount in my account gaining interest is a matter for conjecture.

05/03/07 S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) handed in at branch

Found missing statements at home !!!!

08/03/07 Prelim+ schedule posted rec del

22/03/07 :mad: No reply to prelim LBA posted rec del

05/04/07 :mad: 14 days and no reply to LBA, sent e-mail

27/04/07 :D Offered FULL SETTLEMENT £3375

03/05/07 Cash in bank account :D :D

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Well, it is your thread dangler but I'm with Nikki. The banks ARE big and ugly enough to look after themselves and however you express it, they've been using OUR money to help them.

"banks seem to get the blame for everthing from financial ruin to global warming. " with some justification I would say.

"Everyone has the option to cancel a D/D or S/O if there is insufficient funds in their account" we could also stuff our money in our mattress but we chose not to. If I was running my finances out of a purse on a cash basis then the degree of 'black and white' through which you appear to view things might well be a valid view point, BUT life really is a little short for keeping track on all the daily machinations of the bank. They know this, and even if they refund all that is requested, they will STILL be in front. Sorry to delay any claims of yours but I shall still go after the ci that they have had from me. They must have known they were vulnerable - if not then heads need to roll.

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HI Kennyh, Its each to their own views as you rightly said. As for the daily machinations of the bank, they are not carried out randomly we know in advance when deductions will occur. In Scotland the thresholds for small claims courts are very different to English law, by adding CI many claims will go over the limit leaving the FOS as the only viable final course of action if the bank delays repayment. The FOS will only pursue claims without interest (basic charges), for this reason I say avoid CI until it has atleast been tried and tested in a court of law, as it only confuses newbies starting out.

05/03/07 S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) handed in at branch

Found missing statements at home !!!!

08/03/07 Prelim+ schedule posted rec del

22/03/07 :mad: No reply to prelim LBA posted rec del

05/04/07 :mad: 14 days and no reply to LBA, sent e-mail

27/04/07 :D Offered FULL SETTLEMENT £3375

03/05/07 Cash in bank account :D :D

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The banks have had the upper hand for years and we are all starting to learn they have been abusing this position for years. If they thought for one moment they could win one of us would have been in court by now.

 

All any of us are doing is challenging them to a day in court over these issues and they are running scared and interested only in delaying tactics and obstacles.

 

Keep pushing the envelope people - we haven't found their limit yet.

 

As for the charges kennyh, yes I could have cancelled my DD or SO. But then the banks could have charged me £2 instead of £25! And personally have always consider this the Consumer Action Group that happens to be ace for helping with Bank Charges, amongst other issues.

 

Just my own point of view :)

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Wow.... Dangler8 - you work for a bank? - If so then you pose some interesting arguments for them.... unfortunately the rest of us have woken up to the scams lies and threats that have eminated from the financial groups - all we are simply saying is enough is enough !!! - The practices of "rip-off" Britain must stop. The BBC Whistle-Blower program indicated to what extend that bank's took the pee.... and to what lengths they were prepared to go to to part us from our hard earned cash.

We are simply using their own facts and figures and apply the treatment to them.

And long may it continue... my claim is with CI - apologies if it holds your up, but I am gonna claim what I believe is correct, after all if the boot was on the other foot ..........

01.08.06 - RBOS - S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) request

 

01.08.06 - Alliance @ Leicester Credit Card - S.A.R sent

03.09.06 - £495 owed - Alliance and Leicester sent cheque for £130 - Accepted as partial payment

03.09.06 Alliance & Leicester - LBA letter sent to recover remainder

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To all who respond to my thread, I take on board your comments and welcome your opinions.

I am sure that all the pro CI enthusiasts are in England and claiming under English law where the court thresholds are higher. Please spare a thought for us in Scotland where we are limited to 750 and 1500 limits. Many of our average claims would be pushed well over the 1500 limit if we added CI, the banks are well aware of that and offer refunds of basic charges only. I wish I could take the bank to open court as my basic claim is £3k+ (so you can guess I dont work in a bank) but this would be very risky, untried and a virtual minefield. Read flyboy80 thread today This leaves the FOS as my only option and the FOS wont entertain claims with interest added, only the basic charges.

05/03/07 S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) handed in at branch

Found missing statements at home !!!!

08/03/07 Prelim+ schedule posted rec del

22/03/07 :mad: No reply to prelim LBA posted rec del

05/04/07 :mad: 14 days and no reply to LBA, sent e-mail

27/04/07 :D Offered FULL SETTLEMENT £3375

03/05/07 Cash in bank account :D :D

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Hi kennyh, court is not an option Im afraid, so Im sitting in limbo until the bank offers a refund or stautory 56 days are up and I can go to FOS.

AS for splitting claims, courts have already disallowed this as an abuse of court time.

05/03/07 S.A.R - (Subject Access Request) handed in at branch

Found missing statements at home !!!!

08/03/07 Prelim+ schedule posted rec del

22/03/07 :mad: No reply to prelim LBA posted rec del

05/04/07 :mad: 14 days and no reply to LBA, sent e-mail

27/04/07 :D Offered FULL SETTLEMENT £3375

03/05/07 Cash in bank account :D :D

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you will find as dangler says subsequent claims thrown out for abuse of the system.

If my post has been useful, tip my scales and let me know

 

Always start with the User guide!

Stuck with RBS charges? Click here!!

 

RBS CA1 £2794 SETTLED!!! RBS CA2 £503 SETTLED!!! HBOS CC £498 SETTLED!!! Barclaycard £705 (with CCI) ONGOING!!! NATWEST CA ONGOING!!! LLOYDS CA x 2, CC, LOAN ONGOING!!! HFC LOAN ONGOING!!!

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