The APPG on Fair Business Banking launched their highly anticipated dispute resolution report on 11 July 2018.  The report, authored by Kevin Hollinrake MP and undertaken by the Centre for Policy Studies, sets out the position of the APPG on […]

In a letter to Treasury Select Committee chair Nicky Morgan MP, Ross McEwan, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, speaking about the GRG report, acknowledges that the bank could have “done better” in managing SME customers in financial […]

The Times Brief reports that we have launched an online petition in an attempt to apply public pressure on banks to settle compensation claims for financial product mis-selling. The petition launched on Friday calls on the government to create a […]

Major banks and other financial services institutions are often in dispute with customers who deserve protection. Access to court is costly. The FOS ombudsman scheme is inadequate. The FCA is not equipped to resolve disputes. Tribunals offer scrutiny, justice and […]

RBS has been accused of deliberately destroying small businesses In the past five years, LexLaw has issued more High Court litigation over bank misconduct than all other law firms in the UK By VICKI OWEN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY […]

The Times Brief reports that a company with a Queen’s award for its work in boosting British entrepreneurs is suing two of the country’s biggest banks after they refused to pay up for allegedly mis-selling the not-for-profit business a complicated […]

The Sunday Times reports on the largest ever publicly disclosed settlement of an interest rate swaps mis-selling case. The derivatives in question were sold to a Care Home by Lloyds Bank, which refused to compensate their customer via the FCA-backed IRHP Review […]

Kiki Loizou, of The Sunday Times, reports on our Financial Services Litigation team’s recent successful settlement of a swaps mis-selling litigation case.  A multi-cancellable swap was sold to a Care Home operator by Lloyds Bank. The bank refused to compensate […]

LLOYDS BANK – INTEREST RATE HEDGING PRODUCT (IRHP) MIS-SELLING £4.6 MILLION GBP LITIGATION SETTLEMENT WITH SME CARE HOME LONDON, UK – Lloyds Bank Plc (LLOY.L) has settled a High Court claim[1] over the mis-selling of three complex financial derivatives[2], sold initially […]

LEXLAW Principal, M Ali Akram, was interviewed by BBC Radio 4′s “The Report” alongside our client, a firm of family butchers, who are bank mis-selling victims. The programme discusses the mis-selling of interest rate swaps (derivatives) by retail banks to UK […]