Compensation for tracker interest claims
  • Posted by: Jim Stafford
  • Category: Business

How to deal with compensation offers in respect of Tracker interest claims We now know that more than 13,000 bank customers were incorrectly charged a wrong rate of interest on their tracker loans by the various banks. The Central bank reported in December 2017 that it had found “material deficiencies in certain lenders’ responses” which had…

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Statute of Limitations starting to kick on personal guarantees
  • Posted by: Jim Stafford
  • Category: Business

We are now starting to see more debt recovery cases being successfully challenged on the basis of the Statute of Limitations. In a Court of Appeal judgment delivered on 6th December 2017, the Court was asked to decide on the issue of a PG being “Signed Sealed and Delivered” The Defendant argued that the PG…

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5 ways to deal with bank/vulture fund debt
  • Posted by: Jim Stafford
  • Category: Uncategorized

I set out below the different ways that people are dealing with their debt issues. Ignoring it For certain people, this can be an effective way of dealing with debt, provided the debt is not on a family home. One lesson I have learnt over the years is that it is easy to obtain judgment: The difficulty is…

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High Court Judgment on “warehousing” of mortgages in PIAs
  • Posted by: Jim Stafford
  • Category: Business

One of the popular ways for banks to deal with mortgages in difficulty is to “warehouse” some of the mortgage and agree with the borrowers that they may pay what they can afford to pay at the time, and pay off the warehoused amount at the end of the extended mortgage term. The vexed question…

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Course on Corporate Recovery Strategies and Dealing with Vulture Funds
  • Posted by: Jim Stafford
  • Category: Business

I will be presenting a talk next Wednesday morning, 24th May, at Chartered Accountants House, Dublin 2 on Corporate Recovery Strategies. Given that most receivership appointments are currently being made by the vulture funds, I will have a module on how to reach settlements with the vulture funds. I will also address briefly how the new personal insolvency legislation…

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