Backing For Scottish Endowment Compensation
Opposition parties in Scotland have publicly committed their support to the campaign to secure compensation for thousands of Scottish homeowners, who were mis-sold endowment mortgages by their solicitor.
Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat leader, and Alex Salmond, SNP leader, urged the government to close a legal loophole which leaves many Scots facing huge shortfalls.
People who bought a policy through a lawyer in Scotland, before December 2001, do not qualify for a settlement under the Financial Services and Markets Act.
Mr Kennedy said:
"It is an absurd situation if people in Scotland don't have the same protection against endowment mis-selling as homeowners in England and Wales. It must be put right immediately."
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