West Bromwich Building Society Tracker Margins Legal Action

West Bromwich Building Society Tracker Margins Legal Action

18:38 PM, 30th September 2013, About 11 years ago 3869

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West Bromwich Tracker Rate Mortgages Legal Action Group

West Bromwich Building Society Tracker Margins Legal Action

Are you affected by the West Brom Tracker Rate Hike?

If your mortgage account number begins with the number 8 you are highly likely to be one of the unlucky 41% of the mortgage customers of the West Bromwich building Society with a West Bromwich Mortgage Company account affected by the 1.9% increase in your tracker margin rate. However, if you arranged your mortgage directly with West Bromwich Building Society (i.e. not via a broker) or before 2006 the chances are that your account number will begin with the number 9 and you are not affected – YET!!! West Brom will give no assurances that mortgages with account numbers beginning with the number 9 will not be affected at some point in the future.

OUR INTENDED CLASS ACTION LITIGATION OVERVIEW

Tracker Rate Class Actions Updates

The reasons we started this campaign are very simple:-

1) We believe the actions of West Brom are immoral

2) We believe the actions of West Brom are unlawful, i.e. they have no legal grounds to increase their tracker rate margins

3) We have no wish to subsidise other areas of the West Bromwich Building Society business model

4) We are fearful of other lenders following suit if West Brom are allowed to get away with this

Mark Smith (Barrister-At-Law) said …

“Representative actions, where one person starts a case representing many others, who all want the answer to a legal question from a court such as ‘is this contract enforceable against me?’ but are not seeking damages. All those who sign up to the action will get the benefit of the win, but they do not have to start their own cases, as they are ‘represented’ by the lead claimant.

The only people who will definitely benefit from success in the case are those who have signed up. There will be no free rides. Any others will have to fight their own corners individually, either alone or with legal help (which will inevitably cost significantly more than the group case).”

We will NOT settle on any basis.

Landlords take legal action against West Brom Mortgage Company

We have a moral duty to do what is right for those who support the values upon which this campaign was started. Our promise to all who support these values is that we will not sell out on you at any price. We will continue to fight this injustice and we will fight any other lender who tries to follow suit.

Are you with us?

This discussion thread is now closed – we’re off to Court!

To link to the new discussion please CLICK HERE

West Bromwich Mortgage Company Tracker Margins Legal Action


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Mike L

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20:48 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Dean " at "29/11/2013 - 20:01":

Nicely put Dean. You must be an accountant! 🙂

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20:54 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "The Man From Nowhere" at "29/11/2013 - 19:24":

Fully agree that we should be patient and give everyone a good chance to make up their minds. The timescales may not be wholly up to us though as mention plenty of times before....

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21:04 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mike L" at "29/11/2013 - 20:48":

Correct. I think I may have posted that tho.

Richard Adams

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21:14 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Mike L" at "29/11/2013 - 20:54":

Man from Nowhere - covered in custard or not! - makes solid sense re giving the undecided a bit more time. Better they join up happy and relaxed rather than having been pressganged.

However "nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be" when it will be too late for them if they are still outside at the bargain basement price of £240 per mortgage. In 2 weeks odd counsel's opinion will doubtless confirm that our case is rock solid. Then we must formally decide, as we have mostly already done, that we instruct our legal team to kick things off. Having the money by then would not seem a problem.

Time is running out therefore. The genie will soon be out of the bottle.

All BankersAreBarstewards Smith

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21:28 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

I think folks should wait until WB's new deadline for increased mortgage repayments has well and truly passed, - and even then i believe it sensible to add a week or even two or three weeks. Such patience could allow those mortgage holders who may not have been informed, or who may be on holiday over the Christmas break, and who don't regularly look at bank statements instantly they arrive..

It could take a few weeks, especially over christmas when folk's minds are on other things, for some new victims to realise they are victiims. For the sake of a week ore two, or even a month over the holiday, surely people don't want to prejudice a case which could take a year or more ?

The more time - the more victims and the greater the fighting fund.

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21:39 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "Dean " at "29/11/2013 - 19:55":

Hi Dean,

Agree with you on the inequity of people only coming on board when it starts to look like a sure thing whereas those early adopters like all of us on here have risked our hard earned cash (and sanity), investing our time and effort in fighting this injustice from the outset.

However (and I cannot believe I am saying this) I am prepared to put my principles and any notions of fair play that I still have on the back burner for the greater good. Whilst it may be a tad irksome to have people jump on board at the 11th hour. I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'll happily take their cash with the all the glee of a banker taking home his Christmas bonus if that money helps me hammer the final nail into the coffin of this rate hike.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Dean

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21:53 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "All BankersAreBarstewards Smith" at "29/11/2013 - 21:28":

Yes I agree a reasonable amount of time. I think you maybe stretching it there though. I'm sure mark suggested 48 hours after councels opinion earlier.

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21:54 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "All BankersAreBarstewards Smith" at "29/11/2013 - 21:28":

I was thinking that 31/1/2014 was a good deadline...

(...but I have no idea how that would fit in with the legal guys...)

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22:00 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "The Man From Nowhere" at "29/11/2013 - 21:39":

True. But if we have enough money why shouldn't anyone who wants to join have to pay a premium. ?

In addition it's already been suggested that timing maybe taken out of our hands . We can't try any harder to persuade people If they want to risk waiting to try and save a few hundred quid it's their risk.

I'm so pleased I managed to persuade my property partners to pay for all mortgages it cost £1680 in total. It's been a really bad time as well but it had to be done in my book.

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22:00 PM, 29th November 2013, About 11 years ago

Reply to the comment left by "All BankersAreBarstewards Smith" at "29/11/2013 - 21:28":

Point taken. Maybe, maybe not? When though the green light is received from counsel and if there's enough money in the pot which may well be the case, there is a good argument for cracking on immediately. The case will take a good while so the sooner we start the sooner we win.
It would have been just great to have kicked it off before Christmas so all WB staff from top to bottom could chew over their future prospects during the holiday. Won't happen sadly.

Sorry if my ideas leave you between a rock and a hard place.

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