West Bromwich Building Society Tracker Margins Legal Action

I posted an earlier comment about the WBBS having ‘previous’ about unfair contracts etc – it may have been an incorrect/crap or irrelevant post or it may not have been picked up on, but the link below is well documented about them losing a ‘similar’ case:

Regardless of the defendants entity, The WB BS, I thought the area of Purpose and Context of Contract Law is also relevant to our issues with WBBS and also supports the Contra Proferentem angle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investors_Compensation_Scheme_Ltd_v_West_Bromwich_Building_Society

Reply to the comment left by “ian ” at “17/10/2013 – 22:38“:

I have just complained to the following people from the British Building Societies Association about the behaviour of their member, WBBS. Perhaps other people should complain to….

Hilary McVitty
Head of External Affairs
Phone: 020 7520 5926
Email: [email protected]

Victoria Bamber
Press and Publications Officer
Phone: 020 7520 5927
Email: [email protected]

Katie Wise
Policy and External Affairs Officer
Phone: 020 7520 5904
Fax: 020 7240 5290
Email: [email protected]

Well done Stuart and ALL I have written to all BSA contacts , MP , Watchdog twice , Local newspaper , e mailed all landlords i know , Contacted a local private housing group dealing with social housing who know and deal with many landlords and looks as though they are going to include it in their newsletter to same .
Lets all do this now that templates and links are all here and very easy to use !

Off on holiday shortly but i will be online once i arrive ! !

No good about twitter and facebook etc Mark so i am afraid i didnt understand an earlier request from you to post links re resident broker adding our story to their latest newsletter

Reply to the comment left by “stuart marshall” at “17/10/2013 – 22:30“:

There’s only one proper place to fight the cause and that’s in the courts. Negative publicity isn’t the way forward. Certainly doesn’t portray LL’s in a professional light.

well Colin – I for one don’t consider myself to be a professional LL!

Reply to the comment left by “chrisbusy ” at “17/10/2013 – 23:12“:

Chris

I am also looking to make issue with the following non execs of WBBS and with respect Colin Childs, negative publicity is definitely something that makes these people take note because they cannot hide behind their lawyers responses. So in the nicest possible way, forget you are a landlord and remember you are a always a consumer that has been conned.

I will be taking issue and digging on the following non execs as listed below by WBBS.

WEST BROMWICH BUILDING SOCIETY
163RD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
31ST JULY 2012 – 2.00 PM
HELD AT WEST BROMWICH ALBION FOOTBALL CLUB
Present : Mr M Nicholls – Chairman
Mr J Westhoff – Chief Executive
Mr J Ainley – Non-Executive Director
Mr M Gibbard – Group Finance Director
Mrs C Hafner – Non-Executive Director
Mr A Jones – Group Risk Director
Mr M Ritchley – Non-Executive Director
Mr R Sommers – Non-Executive Director
Mr M Preston – Non-Executive Director
Mr C Walklin – Non-Executive Director

At this stage Stuart i agree that any noise is good as we need to both unsettle WBBS in as big a way as we can to maybe ?? make them reconsider what they have done and also to alert unknowing Landlords to our campaign as ultimately Colin childs may be right in his point that we probably need to aquire the funds to ” GO TO COURT ” and we DO need to be aware that Landlords are sometimes thought of as rich greedy individuals in some circles regrettably , despite the fantastic and necessary service that we generally provide.

PUBLICITY STUNT

I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. As you may be aware, Justin Selig is also a Partner in Landlord action. The founder of that company, Paul Shamplina is always on TV and the third partner in that business is a guy called Michael Kaplan who has a media/PR background. They also employ a PR company.

I’m going to have a chat with Paul, Justin and Michael today about the prospect of organising a Press Conference in London. I think more people will be up for that as opposed to a trip to West Brom or trying to get us all together to organise a mock funeral in Central London which could backfire for so many reasons, e.g. weather, turn out of landlords, anti landlord demonstrators etc. I’ve been looking into the rules for public protests and we would have to give the Police at least 6 days notice. They also tend to be publicised in advance by the media and that could rile the anti-landlord mob so I’m quickly going off the protest idea.

Meeting the media and you guys in London is appealing. I might even persuade more of you to add pictures to your member profiles! LOL

The other thing I like about the Press Conference idea is that if only a handful of us turn out it will not look bad on us.

What do you think?

Reply to the comment left by “stuart marshall” at “17/10/2013 – 22:41“:

Hi Stuart

I can assure you that I hadn’t missed the case you had linked to and neither had Justin. We agree that there are many similarities. I don’t think I commented previously as there wasn’t much to say. You post served as back up evidence supporting my point about the legal principles of contra proferentum. I suspect that’s how most people read it 🙂
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Reply to the comment left by “chrisbusy ” at “17/10/2013 – 23:12“:

Hi Chris

Regarding a link to the Resident Broker website.

I had a look at the website but could not find the page. If you can find it, please copy the website address for the page (top line on your browser – e.g. property118.com/ …….) and then paste it here as a comment. I will then be able to click on the link to visit that website page 🙂
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