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Legal Beagles consumer forum today welcomes on board their 10,000th registered member.
Legal Beagles is a FREE forum offering support, discussion & advice in many areas of your life. Made up of dedicated & enthusiastic individuals who are experienced in consumer issues. Most of us are fighting, or have successfully fought, our own battles against the major financial institutions.
The site ( Legal Beagles - Guarding your Consumer Rights ) was launched in May 2007 and thanks to the dedication of the site's team and members has enjoyed steady growth and now attracts around 2000 visitors per day.
We are privileged to have such dedicated fairness advocates on board. One of the largest campaigns of the site has been for fairness in bank charges. We had members attend every day of the OFT v Abbey National Plc "test case" hearings, appeals and judgment hand downs, enabling us to report up to the minute information in plain intelligible language. We hold a library of transcripts from all the hearings which assist research and future claimants.
We contributed to the OFT's market study into the Personal Current Account Market, a Lending Standards Board study on offsetting of accounts and the possibility of forcing banks to offer accounts where consumers could opt out of having any kind of unauthorised overdraft and thus not incur any fees. We have also met with the Office of Fair Trading on the issues on numerous occassions and taken consumers views forward for consideration.
We have also published a full legal Opinion on the bank charges issue which was very kindly undertaken on a pro bono basis for Legal Beagles by Anthony Scrivener QC for general use and publication.
We are currently working on a response to the BIS consultation where following massive pressure from consumers the government are tackling the EU Consumer Rights Directive to include changes to legislation to allow the courts and regulators to assess the fairness of ancillary charges, such as bank charges, charges for paying by methods other than DD and so on. We'd appreciate your views. This is a direct response to the failure of the OFT to win in the Supreme Court on the bank charges issue.
Alongside the campaign work our members have built a community which,we hope, is friendly and welcoming and enable to assist thousands of people share experiences and legal information covering a huge range of consumer issues from problems with bailiffs, reclaiming unfair charges to fighting companies attempting to repossess people's homes, and we would like to thank every single member of this site for their contributions over the past three years. Long may it continue.
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Legal Beagles is a FREE forum offering support, discussion & advice in many areas of your life. Made up of dedicated & enthusiastic individuals who are experienced in consumer issues. Most of us are fighting, or have successfully fought, our own battles against the major financial institutions.
The site ( Legal Beagles - Guarding your Consumer Rights ) was launched in May 2007 and thanks to the dedication of the site's team and members has enjoyed steady growth and now attracts around 2000 visitors per day.
We are privileged to have such dedicated fairness advocates on board. One of the largest campaigns of the site has been for fairness in bank charges. We had members attend every day of the OFT v Abbey National Plc "test case" hearings, appeals and judgment hand downs, enabling us to report up to the minute information in plain intelligible language. We hold a library of transcripts from all the hearings which assist research and future claimants.
We contributed to the OFT's market study into the Personal Current Account Market, a Lending Standards Board study on offsetting of accounts and the possibility of forcing banks to offer accounts where consumers could opt out of having any kind of unauthorised overdraft and thus not incur any fees. We have also met with the Office of Fair Trading on the issues on numerous occassions and taken consumers views forward for consideration.
We have also published a full legal Opinion on the bank charges issue which was very kindly undertaken on a pro bono basis for Legal Beagles by Anthony Scrivener QC for general use and publication.
We are currently working on a response to the BIS consultation where following massive pressure from consumers the government are tackling the EU Consumer Rights Directive to include changes to legislation to allow the courts and regulators to assess the fairness of ancillary charges, such as bank charges, charges for paying by methods other than DD and so on. We'd appreciate your views. This is a direct response to the failure of the OFT to win in the Supreme Court on the bank charges issue.
Alongside the campaign work our members have built a community which,we hope, is friendly and welcoming and enable to assist thousands of people share experiences and legal information covering a huge range of consumer issues from problems with bailiffs, reclaiming unfair charges to fighting companies attempting to repossess people's homes, and we would like to thank every single member of this site for their contributions over the past three years. Long may it continue.
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