new court guidance on house repossesions?

[mak71]

Read this yesterday, said was to be implemented mid november

 

"Prime Minister Gordon Brown said new guidance was being given to the courts to halt actions to repossess properties unless all alternatives had been "fully examined"."

 

 

So will the dca"s be issued with any tougher procedures as well?

Looks like the government are going to make mortgage lenders look at all alternatives before filing for repossesion, maybe they should use this legislation to clamp down on the dma"s throwing sd"s about and abusing insolvency laws as well

 

Maybe with the credit crunch and recession the courts might be a little bit more lenient on debtors in court on unsecured debt , especially if they only ended up in court in the first place after dmc"s were trying to be heavy handed?

[ScarletPimpernel]

It will be interesting to see how the government will ensure that its will is done. We've already a seen a less than robust approach to the banks, whose trade association the British Bankers' Association (BBA), criticised about the banks' failure to help small businesses, said that: "in a recession, some firms would "inevitably" fail". Unless they are banks, of course, in which case no matter how dismal their performance, they will be bailed out by the taxpayer.

[alfwithhair]

Well they are obviously doing nothing at the moment. I just seen a story on the television news about a disabled bloke threatened with repossesion for a debt of less than £250. I was confirmed by the tv news reporter that this was all he owed.

[mr.ton]

This government needs to get on it knees to us coz its getting kicked out at the next election the way things stand

[philred]

no point thir all init for themselves

[alfwithhair]

Read this yesterday, said was to be implemented mid november

 

"Prime Minister Gordon Brown said new guidance was being given to the courts to halt actions to repossess properties unless all alternatives had been "fully examined"."

 

 

So will the dca"s be issued with any tougher procedures as well?

Looks like the government are going to make mortgage lenders look at all alternatives before filing for repossesion, maybe they should use this legislation to clamp down on the dma"s throwing sd"s about and abusing insolvency laws as well

 

Maybe with the credit crunch and recession the courts might be a little bit more lenient on debtors in court on unsecured debt , especially if they only ended up in court in the first place after dmc"s were trying to be heavy handed?

 

Usual government clap trap, that why this is in the news today.

They must of rearly 'examined the alternatives' NOT

BBC NEWS | Business | Repossession number 'up by 71%'