2024 c. 22 – Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
2024 c. 21 – Victims and Prisoners Act 2024
2024 c. 19 – British Nationality (Irish Citizens) Act 2024
2024 c. 18 – Building Societies Act 1986 (Amendment) Act 2024
2024 c. 13 – Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
‘Adverts featuring the actor Dominic West as a sneering bank manager will be pulled from TV in their current form after the advertising watchdog ruled they were misleading because they wrongly suggest that the building society had not closed branches.’
The Guardian, 3rd April 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The scope of duty and the extent of liability of professional advisers are two hotly contested issues at the core of many a dispute between professional advisers and their clients in negligence claims.’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 24th August 2021
‘The Supreme Court has backed a building society’s claim against its former auditor, in a ruling that provides a “more generous” test for the duty of care owed by professional advisers.’
Law Society's Gazette, 18th June 2021
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘On 30 January 2019 the Court of Appeal gave their judgment in the case of Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2019] EWCA Civ 40. The following day judgment was handed down by the Honourable Mr Justice Bryan in AssetCo Plc v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2019] EWHC 150.’
Littleton Chambers, 14th February 2019
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
‘In Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2019] EWCA Civ 40, the Court of Appeal yet again had to consider the application of the SAAMCO principle. Perhaps most significantly, the decision underlines the need to distinguish between ‘information’ and ‘advice’ cases when assessing the extent of a defendant’s liability for professional negligence.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 14th February 2019
Source: hardwicke.co.uk
‘A man who set fire to his dream rural retreat after a bitter dispute with a building society was found strumming a guitar and cooking on a barbecue next to the burning building by firefighters who arrived to help.’
The Guardian, 10th April 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 published
Full text of Act (PDF)
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
Building Societies (Funding) and Mutual Societies (Transfers) Act 2007 published.
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
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