adam samuel: consulting

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Neasa McErlean

 

"Your stuff is always useful but most of all readable and not afraid to give your views which is unusual and refreshing."
Tom Calvert-Lee, Head of Legal and Compliance, Gissings

"Consumer Complaints and Compensation: A Guide to the Financial Services Market" City & Financial

Writing

Adam Samuel writes on financial services, dispute resolution, private international law and other topics. To download a list of academic publications click here.

Essential Reading - "Consumer Complaints and Compensation: A Guide to the Financial Services Market" City & Financial

Click here now for the 2008 supplement to the book.

Papers you can download

Financial Services

The Re-drafting DIS Group's version of DISP (with commentary)

The Re-drafting DIS Group's version of DISP (without commentary)

Limitation and consumer financial serivces complaints
- endowments, FOS, DISP and the law

Vincent Cunningham v. Friends Provident (unofficial version)

Reflexions on 10 Years in Business

Handling Endowment Complaints

Financial Services and the Human Rights Act - some myths

Deducting Benefits From Demutualisation
- The High Court's decision

Redress and the Pension and FSAVC Reviews
- A view from the pathology lab

Arbitration

Separability of Arbitration Clauses
- some awkward questions about the law on contracts, conflict of laws and the administration of justice.

Imperialism in International Arbitration
- Lawyers, Statutes and Scoundrels. Published in Impérialisme et chauvinisme juridiques, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Schulthess, Lausanne, 2004, 193.

FOMENTO
- a tale of "Litispendance", arbitration and private International law published in Liber Amicorum Claude Reymond: Autour L'Arbitrage, Litec, Paris 2004, 255.

International Arbitration
- the games lawyers play to mess up, dodge and make people pay up after arbitrations.

Adam Samuel writes on a wide range of financial services compliance topics. To find a paper on any of the following areas, please click on the relevant link below:

Complaints | Treating Customers Fairly | Financial Promotions
Financial Advice and The Sales Process | General Insurance | Mortgages
Market Abuse and Money Laundering | Investment Management
Approved Persons | Corporate Management
Regulation Generally | Ethics | Pensions Review
Other Topics and Older Pieces 

Adam helps a wide range of organisations like yours - from dispute resolution centres, law firms and publishers to life assurers and small IFAs. For a complete list click here