I haven't been following this closely, but from the little I'd read, I thought it would go in favour of the affected consumers, so I was surprised to see it has not.
"The President of the Court, Lord Reed, dismissed the idea that car dealers had a "single minded duty of loyalty" to their customers, and insisted they "plainly and properly" had personal interests in the finance agreements they were involved in." "According to Richard Barnwell, a financial services advisory partner at accountancy firm BDO, the bill could still be substantial. "We believe there is still a potential for redress, for example, if discretionary commission arrangements are deemed to be an unfair relationship, redress could still be from £5bn to £13bn or more," he said. Other analysts agree. According to Martin Lewis, who runs the MoneySavingExpert website, "the Supreme Court has certainly narrowed the number of people who will be able to reclaim car finance. I think you're probably talking the lower end of £10bn, as opposed to £40bn."" The judgements can be found here, conclusions typically on the last page or so: Latest judgments - UK Supreme Court
For many it will be too late as they have already signed up with claims companies. Once in their grasp is can be very difficult to free yourself from them I believe. Thankfully never been directly involved with any.
Every time I walk along the pavement past the abandoned Homebase, I trigger a loudspeaker that in a very threatening voice says "Attention! Security detail has been dispatched. Do not leave the area. Do not leave the area!" This seriously annoys me. I'm not on Homebase land. I'm on the public highway. They may be having problems with vandalism or whatever, but that does not give them the right to film and issue threats to people passing by with a bag of shopping from Sainsbury's, IMV. I am tempted to scale their fencing and sit under the loudspeaker until this possibly mythical security detail arrives ... and, if it does, then say I was only following orders. If I did this multiple times over a few days, maybe they would adjust the camera's scope.
No point! My council hates its residents with a vengeance. When there was an issue with a well-known charity chain basically fly tipping its excess stock by opening its back door and chucking it out in a heap, it took months of emails and photographs etc to get them to "act" ... and all they did was ask the shop not to do it, and when the shop carried on regardless, residents were told they needed to allow some months for new behaviours to be learned by the staff! Give me strength! So, I will save my blood pressure the work out!
At one place I worked a guy had a pretty clapped out BMW which had a similar proximity alarm fitted. Every time anybody walked past it, the alarm went off followed by "Attention, attention. Move away from the car immediately". As he always seemed to park in the centre of the company car park that was never going to happen. It took a couple of months before presumably management got sick of it and the alarm was switched off.
I had an e-mail from Royal Mail today informing me that my package would be arriving between 8:50am and 2.21pm today. Should I start to panic and call Royal Mail if it isn't here by 2.22?
I'm fed up keep getting e mails telling me my parcel will be delivered today, and then one telling me they have delivered it. We used to get by without all this kind of thing.
A report this morning about photos/videos doing the rounds on SM showing the torturing and killing of cats/kittens. Some of those posting are as young as 10 as well as adults.
Makes you wonder what they grow up to do to their fellow human beings, having practised on small animals.
It does seem that children who torture animals - including pulling the wings off flies - do often become a danger to life as they grow up. It just puzzles me that with all the tech available these days why isn't this sort of behaviour on SM dealt with immediately - ie reported and removed ? It will still continue in "real " life as it did before SM was available but this sort of behaviour now reaches and apparently encourages a much wider audience Add to that, the constant comment that this person cannot be named due to their age or those pics of a person seen committing a crime and caught on camera but has their face blurred out in any news report. Innocent until proven guilty is a basic concept to be adhered to but unless the CCTV is working on it's own agenda, the expensive court case still goes ahead.
