Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN1727475 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

—deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Treatment in financial difficulty, Mortgage administration

In the Ombudsman’s words

Arrears mounted and Halifax sent warning letters.Treatment in financial difficulty

complain that Bank of Scotland plc (trading as Halifax) did not keep them informed of the legal steps they were taking towards possession of their property, and did not respond to a request for consent to lease.Mortgage administration

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN1727475.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.