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    • Here is my final draft: I, XXXXXX, being the Defendant in this case will state as follows; I make this Witness Statement in support of my defence in the claim and further to my set aside application dated 1 November 2022. The claimants witness statement confirms that it mostly relies on hearsay evidence as confirmed by the drafts in person in the opening paragraph. It is my understanding they must serve notice to any hearsay evidence pursuant to CPR 33.2(1)(B) (notice of intention to rely on hearsay evidence) and Section 2 (1) (A) of the Civil Evidence Act.   1.        The claimant failed to comply with the additional directions ordered by District Judge Davis on the 2 February 2024 'The Claim shall be automatically struck out at 4pm on 3 April 2024 unless the Claimant delivers to the Court and to the Defendant the following documents.' 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The Claimant failed to carry out such basic checks. Subsequently all letters prior to and including ,The Pre action Protocol letter of claim dated 7 January 2020 and the claim form dated 14th February 2020 were all served to a previous address which I moved out of in 2018.   5.        I became aware of original Judgement following a routine credit check on or around 14th September 2020.   6.        Upon the discovery of the Judgement debt, I made immediate contact with the Court and the Claimant Solicitors, putting them on notice that I was making investigations in relation to the Judgement debt as it was not familiar to me.  I asked them to provide me with a copy of the original loan agreement but this was not provided to me.   The correspondence to the Claimant Solicotors is attached and marked ‘Appendix 3’   7.        I then sent a Data Subject Access Request to Barclays but no agreement was provided. Details the timeline of communication between myself and Barclays are attached and marked ‘Appendix 4’and the copies of correspondence between myself and Barclays are attached and marked ‘Appendix 5’.   8.        The claimant relies upon and exhibits a reconstituted version of the alleged agreement.   It is again denied that I have ever entered into an agreement with Barclaycard on or around 2000.  It is admitted that I did hold other credit agreements with other creditors and as such should this be a debt that was assigned to Barclaycard from another brand therefore the reconstituted agreement disclosed is invalid being pre April 2007 and not legally enforceable pursuant to HH Judge Waksman in Carey v HSBC 2009 EWHC3417.  Details of this are attached and marked ‘Appendix 6’.   The original credit agreement must be provided along with any reconstituted version on a modified credit agreement and must contain the names and address of debtor and creditor, agreement number and cancelation clause.   9.        Therefore the claimant is put to strict proof to disclose a true executed legible agreement on which its claim relies upon and not try to mislead the court.   10.   As per CPR 1.4(2)(a) the court encourages parties to cooperate with each other in the conduct of proceedings in order to try and save time and costs for the parties and to also save the time and resources of the court however, despite vast attempts at mediation the claimants have been most unreasonable and have remained unwilling to mediate. Until such time the claimant can comply and disclose a true executed copy of the original assigned agreement they refer to within the particulars of this claim they are not entitled while the default continues, to enforce the agreement pursuant to section 78.6 (a) of the Credit Consumer Act 1974. I believe that the facts stated in this Witness Statement are true.  I understand that proceedings for contempt of court may be brought against anyone who makes, or causes to be made, a false statement in a document verified by a statement of truth without an honest belief in its truth. Signed                 ………………………………………………….. Name                  XXXX Date                     30 April 2024
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GMAC RFC - closing down mortgage operations in UK?


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GMAC RFC announced on 29 Sept 2008 that all their sales force are to be made redundant by the end of the year! - and not currently writing any new business in UK.

 

Anyone had a GMAC mortgage which has been sold to another lender? - and what your experience was of the transfer?

 

GMAC had sold a tranche of mortages to Bradford & Bingley - and we know what happened to them! :)

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I think you may find that most sub prime lenders are not taking on new business at the mo. Mainly because they deal with the "high risk" customers they can no longertake thatchance as they are becoming even highre risk.

I am with KMC who Bradford were suposedly buying loads of mortagages from but I believe it fell through. I dont think it wouold change an awful lot as you will be just going to anouther sub prime lender. Tyhey are always changing comapnies regardless of the recession , sorry credit crunch

 

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we were with GMAC, but they sold it to MAS number 5. They seem quite good. This was about 18 months ago though.

WE WERE WITH GMAC AND WAS THEN SOLD TO MORTGAE EXPRESS WHO ARE PART OF BRADFORD AND BINGLEY! NOT SURE WHAT WILL HAPPEN NOW THOUGH, p.s. just a grip!! THEY HAVE NOT PASSED ON AS YET THE INTEREST RATE CUT FORM LAST WEEK, SO UNFAIR.

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Hi

 

GMAC RFC announced on 29 Sept 2008 that all their sales force are to be made redundant by the end of the year! - and not currently writing any new business in UK.

 

Anyone had a GMAC mortgage which has been sold to another lender? - and what your experience was of the transfer?

 

GMAC had sold a tranche of mortages to Bradford & Bingley - and we know what happened to them! :)

 

GMAC-RFC is changing its strategy in order to work through difficult market conditions and is currently in transition to form an international asset management company, responsible for managing over 16bn of mortgage assets. They will lend in the future but this won't happen in the short to medium term.

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we were with GMAC, but they sold it to MAS number 5. They seem quite good. This was about 18 months ago though.

 

MAS number 5, is a company owned by Platform Homeloans which is a 100% owned subsidiary of Britannia building society. Most probably WMS would be servicing your mortgage.

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My Gmac Fixed rate finishes next july . Anybody got any idea what is likely to happen then ? The paperwork says I'll go onto a high rate (Libor + 3%) unless I renew with a different deal or move my mortgage, but as I'm at 90% now and property values still dropping I'm unlikely to be able to transfer elsewhere .

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i too am with GMAC. theyve always been reasonable even though ive ben to court with em!!

i need to read my terms with em but they havent sold mine on yet and passed on the last .5% rate cut. im hopin theyll do the same with the 1.5% one!!

god knows i need it.

 

when they do sell the debts are the terms the same with these new companies??? or can they change (for the worse)??

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I am also with GMAC and it runs out on 30th Nov . Payments are currently £1059 but will go to £1289. This was before the rate cut. Are they likely to pass this on? My broker says that there are no alternatives at the present. Anybody got any advice?

Its better to live one day as a lion than a thousand days as a lamb!!!;-)

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No 2 company trying to make me bankrupt going under, I had my main mortgage with GMAC, and secured loan with London & Scottish who are now in administration - the news gets better and better!

 

I suppose I could do the 'moral' stance and offer 1p in £1 or £1 per £100 but they took my house and both owe me in fees and charges - so I will settle for no collections activity on their behalf as full and final...

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Im with them too - based on Libor and only reviewed 3 monthly, when i called to see if the rate would be dropping i was told it would be reviewed the first week in december - fingers still crossed

 

 

Im not sure it is based on Libor. All my rate cuts have been passed on without waiting 3 months. Tends to be a month or 2 later.

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Hi folks, I have a mortgage with GMAC currently and im finding it hard to keep up repayments at the moment. Im 2 months in arrears.

 

Ive been reading various articles about GMAC recently however and it seems a possibility that they might file for bankruptcy themselves!

 

Could someone please tell me what happens to everyones mortgages if this happens to GMAC ?

 

Many Thanks

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The mortgage will probably have already been 'sold' onto another company and be serviced by a third party, at least my research into this suggests - I may be wrong but nearly all GMACs mortgages were SVP types dressed up as 'sub-prime special deals' and nearly all got transferred to another company after the initial 'deal' period finished - sometimes before.

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The mortgage will probably have already been 'sold' onto another company and be serviced by a third party, at least my research into this suggests - I may be wrong but nearly all GMACs mortgages were SVP types dressed up as 'sub-prime special deals' and nearly all got transferred to another company after the initial 'deal' period finished - sometimes before.

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

My mortgage is only 2 years old and I have not been informed of any change in ownership of my mortgage at anytime.

 

Is that normal or does that mean GMAC have not sold my mortgage on ?

 

And if they do still have it and they go into liquidation does anyone know what happens then?

Do the liquidators sell the assets ie mortgages in blocks to the highest bidder? or do they keep it in GMAC or holding company until the fixed rate period ends, has anything like this happened before.

 

Many thanks in advance if anyone replys

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Ive been reading various articles about GMAC recently however and it seems a possibility that they might file for bankruptcy themselves!

 

GMAC has been suffering the credit crunch for sometime. Last year, they withdrew a number of already approved mortgage offers causing applicants problems. If the current situation continues, the company could go into administration.

 

I understand GMAC has made a large number of its mortgage workforce redundant effective 31st December 2008.

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