High court case appeal should not delay case by a year

According to the judge presiding at the recent High Court test case into bank charges, the decision by the UK banks to appeal against the ruling should not result in as serious a delay as some reports have indicated. Recent reports claimed that if banks appealed against the judge’s decision to allow the Office of Fair Trading to assess banks’ terms and conditions for fairness the case could be further delayed by over a year. However, Justice Andrew Smith has stated that this is not the case. Read more

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