HSBC Bank plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN4595988 Not upheld

Not upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Tue May 03deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Charges and fees, Mortgage administration

In the Ombudsman’s words

Mr A complains that HSBC shouldn’t have added legal fees to his mortgage accountCharges and fees

HSBC added legal costs of more than £2,000 to Mr A’s mortgage account for work its solicitors had done in relation to the court hearing.Mortgage administration

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN4595988.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.