GRAHAM
ROBERTS
ROBERTS
conducts courses to help your
business with:
- Banking Law
- Financial Services Law
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Useful web links in banking law:
- Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London
- Financial Ombudsman Service – this is the invaluable service for individuals and small companies that permits a case to be launched against an institution without any risk of costs against the complainant. Contains interesting details on the nature and volume of complaints and many entertaining and instructive case histories.
- Lending Standards Board. Monitors and reviews the Lending Code. Contains a link to the full Code.
- Financial Services Compensation Scheme – this organisation pays up if your bank or insurance company or investment adviser goes bust.
- British Bankers Association – the trade organisation for the industry. Some useful news items and statistics.
- The Financial Conduct Authority
- Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority
- UK Payments Administration
- The Insolvency Service – a government website that provides a useful glossary of insolvency terms, as well as practical matters such as how to search the registers and how to apply to make someone bankrupt.
- Companies House – comprehensive coverage of how to use the services at Companies House on line as well as useful material on such matters as directors’ responsibilities, registering a new company, registering a charge against a company etc. Also has information on limited liability partnerships.
- Elexica.com – database of legal material and updating service run by the law firm Simmons and Simmons. Free to register.
- Financial Fraud Action UK Contains interesting statistics and news on fraud and the latest scams.
- University College London Faculty of Laws
- Graham Roberts is a Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London and a senior teaching fellow in the University College London Faculty of Laws.
- He has authored the two mainstream texts Law Relating to International Banking and Law Relating to Financial Services. Both of these books are widely used by lawyers, bankers and students of banking law.