The claimant sought relief by way of judicial review from a policy statement issued by the defendants regarding the alleged widespread misselling of payment protection insurance policies, and the steps to be taken to compensate the purchasers. They objected that the policy statement would require them to act beyond their obligations in law.
Held: The objection failed. The parliamentary background materials did not require restriction of the scope of rules capable of being made by the respondent. The respondent was not limited to making rules with regard to matters which were actionable in themselves. Ouseley J discussed the relationship between the FSA Principles and Rules and said: ‘The Principles are best understood as the ever present substrata to which the specific rules are added. The Principles always have to be complied with. The specific rules do not supplant them and cannot be used to contradict them. They are but specific applications of them to the particular requirements they cover. The general notion that the specific rules can exhaust the application of the Principles is inappropriate. It cannot be an error of law for the Principles to augment specific rules.’
Though a specific provision is capable of carrying an implied exclusion of other general or other specific powers, section 404 did not implicitly exclude what the FSA had done, even though it would have been possible for a scheme to have been set up to achieve much or rather more of the same end, and part of the reason why it was not was the cumbersome nature of the remedy, and the fact that it would not apply to breaches of the Principles.
Ouseley J
[2011] EWHC 999 (Admin), [2011] Bus LR 1531, [2011] ACD 71
Bailii
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 2 404
England and Wales
Citing:
Cited – Black-Clawson International Ltd v Papierwerke Waldhof Aschaffenburg AG HL 5-Mar-1975
Statute’s Mischief May be Inspected
The House considered limitations upon them in reading statements made in the Houses of Parliament when construing a statute.
Held: It is rare that a statute can be properly interpreted without knowing the legislative object. The courts may . .
Cited – Regina v Secretary of State for Health ex parte Quintavalle (on behalf of Pro-Life Alliance) HL 13-Mar-2003
Court to seek and Apply Parliamentary Intention
The appellant challenged the practice of permitting cell nuclear replacement (CNR), saying it was either outside the scope of the Act, or was for a purpose which could not be licensed under the Act.
Held: The challenge failed. The court was to . .
Cited – Heather Moor and Edgecomb Ltd, Regina (on the Application Of) v Financial Ombudsman Service and Another CA 11-Jun-2008
Rix LJ considered the possible scope of rules made by the respondent saying: ‘In my judgment, the following values are all to be appreciated and brought into a pragmatic balance: that an efficient and cost-effective and relatively informal type of . .
Cited – Credit Suisse and Another v Waltham Forest London Borough Council CA 20-May-1996
Parliament had made detailed provision in a number of Acts for the discharge of the housing duties by local authorities. These detailed provisions did not contain a power to give a guarantee in connection with a bank loan to a company which the . .
Cited – Harrison v Black Horse Ltd QBD 1-Dec-2010
The claimant sought damages for breach of the statutory duty in ICOB, and for damages for negligence. The bank faced a claim that it had assumed responsibility to take reasonable care in recommending the policy it did. The bank had relied on the . .
Cited – Heather Moor and Edgecomb Ltd, Regina (on the Application Of) v Financial Ombudsman Service and Another CA 11-Jun-2008
Rix LJ considered the possible scope of rules made by the respondent saying: ‘In my judgment, the following values are all to be appreciated and brought into a pragmatic balance: that an efficient and cost-effective and relatively informal type of . .
Cited – Baby Products Association and Another, Regina (on the Application of) v Liverpool City Council Admn 23-Nov-1999
The 1987 Act and its Regulations enabled a local authority with proper grounds for suspecting that a safety provision had been contravened in relation to goods, to issue a ‘suspension notice’ prohibiting a person on whom it was served from supplying . .
Cited – Regina v J HL 14-Oct-2004
The defendant was to have been accused of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 16. Proceedings could not be brought, because the allegation was more than a year old, and he was instead accused of indecent assault, but on the same . .
Cited by:
Cited – Barnes and Another v Black Horse Ltd QBD 31-May-2011
barnes_blackQBD11
The claimants sought repayment by the bank of sums paid to them for Payment Protection Insurance policies sold to them in connection with loans made by the bank. The Bank now resisted an application for leave to amend the particulars of the . .
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Banking, Consumer, Financial Services
Updated: 10 November 2021; Ref: scu.434868
