Bank of Scotland Plc

Financial Ombudsman decision DRN7823883 Upheld

Upheldoutcome, as published by the Ombudsman

—no sum stated

Fri Jul 16deadline to accept (not the decision date)

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What this decision was about

Irresponsible lending, Charges and fees

In the Ombudsman’s words

Halifax should have stopped providing the overdraft on the same terms in May 2014Irresponsible lending

Reworking Mr H’s current overdraft balance so that all interest, fees and charges applied to it from May 2014 onwards are removedCharges and fees

Source

This page summarises the Ombudsman’s published final decision. The document itself is the record: DRN7823883.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.