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Petrol soars above £2 a litre in UK as Ukraine war drives up prices   Petrol prices have reached record highs of over £2 per litre in London on Wednesday as the war between Russia and Ukraine drives up fuel costs. The average price of petrol in the UK reached £1.55 per litre for the […]

UK draft online safety bill published With many Timeshare owners falling victim of online scams promising relinquishments and compensation, will the new online safety bill be enough to protect them? Read what Timeshare specialist Solicitor Sarah Waddington has to say below. The draft Online Safety Bill has recently been introduced by the government, as they […]

Have you just received notification of your timeshare maintenance fees? Like many timeshare owners, you may have received unexpectedly your maintenance fees notification having previously been told your contract with the timeshare company has been relinquished. If this is the case, you may have fallen victim of a timeshare scam. You may have seen or […]

Following last week’s news that the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has made a final decision in a case involving Barclays Partner Finance (BPF), who funded the purchase of one of Club La Costa’s (CLC) mis-sold Fractional timeshare products to consumers, further details of that decision are now beginning to emerge. It is clear from the […]

The Financial Ombudsman Service has now found that Club La Costa mis-sold products to consumers and has ordered Barclays Partner Finance (BPF) to repay to them the payments made under their finance agreement. Following this decision, the FOS will now apply this decision to all similar cases and thousands of consumers will benefit from it. […]

PROPER LEGAL ADVICE   Following yesterday’s news that the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has made a final decision in a case involving Barclays Partner Finance (BPF), who funded the purchase of one of Club La Costa’s mis-sold Fractional timeshare products to consumers, we have now had the opportunity of reviewing the contents of that decision.   It is clear from the decision, which can be […]

You may have read recently about the recent outcome of the proceedings in the Upper Tribunal, in which Barclays Partner Finance have agreed to repay timeshare consumers £48 million. The proceedings related to finance agreements provided by Barclays Partner Finance to consumers for the purchase of timeshare products from Azure between 2014 and 2016.   There is a […]

Tied into A Timeshare You Can No Longer Use or Afford A timeshare was once seen as a great opportunity to enjoy a few much-needed weeks away in the sun each year but as you grow older or circumstances change, owning timeshare can become increasingly difficult and more of a burden than anything else. As […]

We were pleased to be able to assist Harry Brennan from The Telegraph with information for his article “Timeshare Victims die while waiting for justice”. This article was published on 17th October 2021 and you can read this online using the link   Here at Sarah Waddington Solicitors, we are very passionate about bringing attention […]

What You Need to Know to Protect Yourself In the wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic, there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of cold call scams and incidences targeting timeshare owners. The past few years have been extremely difficult for most people but for a lot of people with a timeshare contract there […]