The House was asked whether the liability of a credit card company under the 1974 Act applied where the contract was performed abroad and subject to foreign law. Held: The principle which disapplied an English statute in an extra-territorial situation did not apply where the creditor was within the UK. Section 75(2) is therefore an … Continue reading Office of Fair Trading v Lloyds TSB Bank PlC and Others: HL 31 Oct 2007
The 2008 Order had made retrospective provision as to the duty to furnish certain statements to consumer borrowers. The court was now asked: ‘where a creditor has provided the debtor with a statement which fails to set out the information required by the Regulations (‘a non-compliant statement’), when does the period of non-compliance commence?’ The … Continue reading JP Morgan Chase Bank, National Association v Northern Rock (Asset Management) Plc: ChD 19 Feb 2014
Hakbert DCJ [2014] EW Misc 1 (CC) Bailii Consumer Credit Act 1974 56 75 Consumer Updated: 30 November 2021; Ref: scu.521633
The claimant sought repayment of a personal protection insurance premium paid to her broker. The broker was now in insolvent liquidation, and she sought to recover the premium from the next intermediary. Held: Any limitation of section 140A(1)(c) to acts or omissions for which the creditor was personally or vicariously responsible would imply that the … Continue reading Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd and Another: CA 16 Dec 2013
The customer appealed against an order finding that his credit card agreement was binding upon him. Held: The appeal failed. His argument that the application form amounted only to an invitation to treat, and that the contract was one made by conduct only and therefore not compliant with the 1974 Act, failed. The form was … Continue reading HSBC Bank Plc v Brophy: CA 2 Feb 2011
The defendant sought to re-open the question of whether the charge under which he might otherwise be liable was an extortionate credit bargain. The creditor said that that plea was time barred. The defendant argued that a finding that the agreement amounted to an extortionate bargain would not be a substantive relief, and was therefore … Continue reading Nolan v Wright: ChD 26 Feb 2009
PPI Sale – No Recovery from Remote Parties The claimant sought repayment of payment protection insurance premiums paid by her under a policy with Norwich Union. The immediate broker arranging the loan was now insolvent, and she sought repayment from the second and other level intermediaties. She said that the commission disclosure by the defendants … Continue reading Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd: SC 12 Nov 2014
The court was asked to consider whether there was any implied term limiting the power of a mortgagee to set interest rates under a variable rate mortgage. Held: A loan arrangement which allowed a lender to vary the implied rate of interest, included an implied term not to impose an unreasonable or extortionate rate, nor … Continue reading Paragon Finance plc v Nash etc: CA 15 Oct 2001
Each party contracted hire copiers to shops and offices. The claimant said that the defendant had interfered with their contracts by substituting their equipment. The defendants said that the claimants’ contracts were controlled by the 1974 Act, but that the claimant was not registered and could not enforce the agreements. Held: Section 15 regulated agreements … Continue reading TRM Copy Centres (UK) Ltd and Others v Lanwall Services Ltd: HL 17 Jun 2009
Various credit card customers said that the respondent banks had mis-stated the interest rates applied to them, in that the interest charged did not match the APR advertised, and that therefore the agreements were unenforceable. Held: The claimants’ calculations did not apply. The driver of the interest rate was not the statement as to the … Continue reading Sternlight v Barclays Bank Plc: QBD 22 Jul 2010
A claimant sought as part of her damages for the cost of hiring a care whilst her own was off the road after an accident caused by the defendant. She agreed with a hire company to hire a car, but payment was delayed until the claim was settled. Held: The arrangement was a consumer credit … Continue reading Dimond v Lovell: HL 12 May 2000
The House was asked whether a contractual provision for interest to run after judgment as well as before in a consumer credit contract led to an unfair relationship. Held: The term was not covered by the Act, and was not unfair under the Regulations. It was by way of a default condition, rather than a … Continue reading Director General of Fair Trading v First National Bank: HL 25 Oct 2001
Cancellation of Hire Finance Contract The claimant had bought a PC with a finance agreement with the respondent. He rejected it a day later, but the respondent refused to cancel the credit agreement. The respondent had threatened to report his non-payment to credit reference companies, which in due course caused the appellant more difficulties. He … Continue reading Durkin v DSG Retail Ltd and Another: SC 26 Mar 2014
The bank appealed against an order that a consumer credit agreement was unenforceable for failing to meet the requirements. The amount of credit figure had been calculated to include the deferred obligation to pay the broker’s fee. Held: The appeal succeeded. The fee was not part of the amount of credit, but rather of the … Continue reading Southern Pacific Personal Loans Ltd v Walker and Another: CA 12 Nov 2009
The appellant borrowed a sum from the respondent under a fixed sum credit agreement. A broker administration fee had been advanced to facilitate the loan. The agreement recorded the ‘Amount of Credit’ net of the fee, and the ‘Total Amount Financed’ included the fee. The borrower said the agreement was unenforceable for mis-stating the amount … Continue reading Southern Pacific Securities 05-2 Plc v Walker and Another: SC 7 Jul 2010
Manchester County Court – The claimant sought repayment of insurance premiums paid as payment protection insurance when aking out a loan with the defendants as advised by the second defendant. The second defendant was in liquidation by the time her claim was issued. In pursuing a claim for at the most andpound;5,000, her lawyers had … Continue reading Plevin v Paragon Personal Finance Ltd and Another: Misc 4 Oct 2012
‘claim brought by the claimant for monies allegedly owed by the defendant under a credit agreement regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974. It is claimed that the credit agreement was made between Barclaycard and the defendant in about June 2006. It involved the provision of a credit card by Barclaycard to the defendant.! [2012] … Continue reading HFO Capital Ltd v Wegmuller: Misc 24 Jan 2012
The several cases claimed the cost of provision by credit hire companies of car hire and repair services to the innocent victims of road accidents. The transactions were ‘res inter alios acta’ – collateral to the commission of the tort. . .
The court considered the effect of an agreement within the 1974 Act falling into more than one category of agreement. Part was used to be used for the repayment of an existing mortgage (restricted use credit), and part was unrestricted. The question . .
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The appellant had purchased a computer from an associated company of the defender with finance from the defender. He complained that on his return of the computer the defender had failed to cancel the consumer credit agreement, causing him losses. . .
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References: [1997] CCLR 7 The borrower had first borrowed money on mortgage (the 1989 loan) to pay off an existing third party mortgage (as well as raising additional funds) and later paid off the new mortgage as part of the process of substituting that mortgage for a different one from the same lender. One issues … Continue reading The National Home Loans Corporation v Hannah: 1997
The parties contracted for the marketing of contracts for the marketing of the defendant’s mobile phone contracts. On the claimant entering administration, the defendant exercised a clause in their contract to terminate the contract. The claimant sought payment of sums remaining due under the contracts entered into by consumers, but the defendant counterclaimed saying that … Continue reading Phones 4U Ltd v EE Ltd: ComC 16 Jan 2018
The court reconsidered the law relating to penalty clauses in contracts. The first appeal, Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi, raised the issue in relation to two clauses in a substantial commercial contract. The second appeal, ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis, raised the issue at a consumer level, with a separate issue under the … Continue reading Cavendish Square Holding Bv v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis: SC 4 Nov 2015
The parties had been involved in a road traffic accident. The defendant drove into the claimant’s parked car. The claimant was unable to afford to hire a car pending repairs being completed, and arranged to hire a car on credit. He now sought payment of the cost of the credit agreement. Held: A negligent driver … Continue reading Lagden v O’Connor: HL 4 Dec 2003
The defendant was convicted under the 1994 Act of producing counterfeit CDs. He argued that the affixing of the name of the artist to the CD was not a trade mark use, and that the prosecution had first to establish a civil offence before his act could become criminal. The prosecutor appealed the decision of … Continue reading Regina v Johnstone: HL 22 May 2003
The appellants challenged an order for the dissolution of their company under the 2000 Acts. They had provided warranties for assorted consumer electrical goods which amounted to insurance, but said that they were not required to be registered under the Act since only services in kind were ever provided. Held: The appeal failed. The fact … Continue reading Digital Satellite Warranty Cover Ltd and Another v Financial Services Authority: SC 13 Feb 2013
Transactions were entered into under which loans were made to enable the borrower to acquire and develop certain properties were held to be unenforceable under the 1927 Act. The effect was to enrich the borrower, who had fallen into arrears of payments of interest and moneys due but was successful in his defence that all … Continue reading Orakpo v Manson Investments Ltd: HL 1977
