Campaigns

Claims against MAS5 mortgages and Co-op bank

As part of our work with mortgage prisoners, Harcus Parker acts for a number of individuals whose mortgages have been operated by Mortgage Advisory Services Number 5 (‘MAS5’) which is a subsidiary of the Co-operative Bank. If your mortgage has been administered by MAS5 and you would like to get in touch about a potential claim, please fill out the form below and a member of the team will be in touch.

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Legacy Payment Protection Insurance Claims

The unscrupulous selling of PPI gave rise to the UK’s largest and most serious consumer financial scandal. We estimate that 6 million customers have still not been compensated at all, that millions have been under-compensated, and that £18 billion remains to be claimed through our new group litigation.

It means that the banks are still holding onto to billions of pounds that they wrongly took from the public and have never paid back.

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Credit and Debit Card Class Action

We are bringing a further class action lawsuit against Mastercard and Visa on behalf of businesses accepting payments using credit and debit cards. We say that transaction fees set by Mastercard and Visa are unlawful and that businesses should be compensated.

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Energy Litigation

We will act for businesses, schools, charities, sports clubs, faith groups and any other non-domestic energy users to recover the cost of energy broker commissions secretly added by suppliers to energy bills.

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Home REIT Claim

We are pursuing claims on behalf of investors who have suffered losses on shares they have held or continue to hold in Home REIT.

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Student Group Claim

We act for thousands of students and former students in compensation claims against British universities. Their claim relates to the fact that they were charged full fees for online or cancelled tuition during the pandemic and staff strikes.

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Previous campaigns

Our previous financial group litigation projects have included:

Lloyds / HBOS

We acted for shareholders in their claim against Lloyds Banking Group and some of its former directors for breaches of fiduciary duty arising from Lloyds’s acquisition of HBOS at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

ARCH CRU GROUP LITIGATION

Claim on behalf of approximately 1,100 clients against the ACD of the CF Arch cru OEICs. The Arch cru funds, valued at £363m, were suspended in 2009, after it was discovered that the vast majority of the sub-funds’ portfolios consisted of conflict-laden and illiquid investments in cell companies incorporated in Guernsey and listed on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange.

TOWER / UKFS

Multimillion-pound claim against the managers and operators of ’double-dipping’ film investment schemes designed to shelter income and capital gains tax by taking advantage of s.42 Finance (No.2) Act 1992. We acted for a large group of investors who argued they had been misled about the schemes’ nature and risk profile.

TAKE FILM SCHEMES

Action on behalf of investors in the Take film scheme series, which sought to take advantage of tax incentives on British qualifying films. The claimants alleged that the scheme was implemented in a manner that was inconsistent with the promotional literature, and that the scheme was sold despite the operators knowing that it was bound to fail.

ENTERPRISE ZONE

Claim on behalf of investors relating to mis-sold investments in commercial property sites situated in ‘enterprise zones’ (designated areas into which the Government encouraged investment by offering tax relief for investors).

EVOLUTION FILMS GROUP LITIGATION

Claim on behalf of the subscribers to a ‘production’ film partnership scheme, the structure of which was such that it could never have generated the investment returns or tax relief claimed.

FIRE CONTROL CENTRES

Claim for losses incurred by investors in a tax-driven investment scheme which invested in a network of control centres through which it was proposed to run the country’s emergency fire response.