Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN-5062929 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Mon Nov 04deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Product mis-sold

In the Ombudsman’s words

He says it lent to him irresponsibly and gave him a residential mortgage instead of a buy-to-let mortgage as he should have had.Irresponsible lending

Mr K complains that Bank of Scotland plc, trading as Halifax, mis-sold him a mortgage.Product mis-sold

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN-5062929.pdf on financial-ombudsman.org.uk.

The outcome shown is the Ombudsman’s own published classification, not our reading of the text. Nothing here is legal advice, and a decision concerns only the complaint it was made about.