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Archive for December 6, 2016

Bills of Sale Reform

On 12 September 2016 the Law Commission published its final report containing proposals to modernise the archaic Bills of Sale regime. The driver for reform was the increased use of logbook loans in the consumer vehicle finance market, but the registration of whole turnover invoice finance agreements with sole traders and partnerships as Bills of Sale also fell to be considered.

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Invoice Finance and the Consumer Credit Act

There remains a degree of confusion as to the extent to which invoice financiers are affected by the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 as now amended by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. This is not helped by the fact that some of the statutory provisions are amongst the most opaque anywhere on the statute book, which is largely as a result of the piecemeal way in which the various European directives have been incorporated into UK law over the last 30 years.

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New Edition of Guide to Invoice Finance Law

The New Year will see the publication of the fourth edition of our popular Guide to Invoice Finance Law , which brings the previous third edition published in 2012 right up-to-date with relevant legislative and case law developments, including an Appendix setting out differences between English and Scots law.

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