Month: February 2016

Wolves of Wall Street… or… Paternoster Square, Beware…

In the Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio portrayed New York City stockbroker Jordan Belfort in an adaptation of Belfort’s memoir of the rampant corruption, fraud and criminal excess which reportedly pervaded the financial services industry on Reagan-era Wall Street and beyond. By some accounts the City of London during the […]

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Consumer Protection – are you still non-compliant?

Amendments made to the existing Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations (2008) meant that from October 2014, anyone who has been a victim of misleading or aggressive practices including assured short-hold tenants could bring civil proceedings to redress the situation they find themselves in. Prior to October 2014, if property (or other) businesses used unfair […]

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