Mark Cannon QC
Financial Services Professionals
Mark has been involved in numerous claims against financial services professionals. He is fully familiar with the regulatory regime under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, including conduct of business rule books, the working of the Financial Ombudsman Service and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. He is currently acting in an application for judicial review of the latter.
Mark's experience in this area goes back to claims for breaches of conduct of businesss rules under the Financial Services Act 1986.
He appeared in ICS v. West Bromwich Building Society [1999] Lloyd's Rep PN, which concerned the mis-selling of equity release mortgages/home income plans. He has acted in claims for mis-investment of pension funds, including claims for "churning" and inappropriate selection of investments.