Weekly law digests

Re Griffiths; Griffiths v HSBC Private Bank (UK) Ltd [2019] Lexis Citation 22, [2019] All ER (D) 86 (Mar)

The applicant’s application to set aside a statutory demand failed. The Chancery Division held that, among other things, the respondent bank had not given assurances to G and his wife, so that the bank had represented that the debt would not be called in or that the whole debt would not be treated as being payable otherwise than on demand.

European Union

Dunai v ERSTE Bank Hungary Zrt C-118/17, [2019] All ER (D) 85 (Mar)

Council Directive (EEC) 93/13 did not preclude national legislation which prevented the court seised of the case from granting an application for the cancellation of a loan contract on the basis of the unfair nature of a term relating to the exchange difference, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, provided that a finding that terms in such an agreement were unfair would restore the legal and factual situation that the consumer would have