MSE News: MoneySaver wins bank charges court case

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Oliver Foster-Burnell has won a bank charges case against Lloyds TSB at Taunton County Court...

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MoneySaver wins bank charges court case




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colsten

There's a 3 week old thread on this already: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5047472

anoncol

What is going on?!

MABLE

If customers were to run their bank accounts properly there would be no need to worry about getting charges refunded.

orfoster

MABLE wrote: »

If customers were to run their bank accounts properly there would be no need to worry about getting charges refunded.

If only life was that simple. £330 of charges in 2 months is quite difficult to recover from, all for going less than £10 overdrawn...

I'm glad the judge agreed!

fermi

On BBC You and Yours today. Listen from 16mins 42s onwards

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04gcdt8

and from last month.

http://legalbeagles.info/judgment-foster-burnell-v-lloyds-bank-august-2014-bank-charges/

colsten

That's all in the 3 weeks old thread.

Thrugelmir

fermi wrote: »

On BBC You and Yours today. Listen from 16mins 42s onwards

Little of real substance. The key legal points barely got a mention. The guy himself was waffling a load of rubbish on the whole. Would appear that Lloyds are considering their position.

Archi_Bald

Thrugelmir wrote: »

The guy himself was waffling a load of rubbish on the whole.

The guy himself seems to be MSE user orfoster

I agree with your assessment of the BBC broadcast, though.

ceredigion

Love the journalism.


"A MoneySaver has become what's believed to be the first person to win a bank charges case in court since 2007.
"


Bit of a oxymoron in there

dekaspace

What is interesting to me is a few years ago I had an arranged overdraft which I never really used, but went into it by accident when a company charged me twice, but even before that I knew my overdraft was due to expire and about 2 weeks before rang bank and went to branch but bank refused to renew it until after it expired so I was given about £100 in fees for being overdrawn and just told "well you had no overdraft facilities and were overdrawn"

Similar things happened when overdrafts were due up, I had fraud on my account so reported it to bank and the first thing they did was remove my overdraft! making me like a grand in debt then charged me huge fees of about £50 a month till it was sorted(took about 4 months)

I got the fraud money returned but not the £50 a month charges since the bank again said "well you were overdrawn so you got charges" and because they said I was overdrawn so often without a limit they would not give me another overdraft! Kind of crazy really that before the recession they kept ringing me to increase it and I kept turning them down despite my income being the same if not lower than now.

orfoster wrote: »

If only life was that simple. £330 of charges in 2 months is quite difficult to recover from, all for going less than £10 overdrawn...

I'm glad the judge agreed!

Heres where I admit something I did when I was at uni, I had a £1 direct debit bounce(was like 21p short) this gave me a automatic £30 returned payment fee, then a £30 fee for being in a unauthorised overdraft, ended up about £600 in fees and I remember explaining to the bank the only reason it bounced was due to (again) a company taking payment twice or in this case they took the amount to check money was in account, plus a payment my dad transferred from his account in the same branch 2 weeks before went "missing" and they kept saying it was sent and it was my dads fault, bank had none of it and just said it was my own fault.

Before that with the same bank which was my fault this time was I wrote a £10 cheque but got date of wages wrong so it came off a day before I was paid, bank let the £10 cheque cash but charged me £30 for being overdrawn.