Learn more about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's
recent consent orders with two real estate brokerage firms for RESPA violations arising from their interactions with a mortgage lender, plus tips on how to avoid similar actions against your brokerage.
In the meantime, the CFPB continues to issue enforcement actions on RESPA related concerns, as evidenced by
the recent Consent Orders.
Article Melanie A. Hallas of McDermott Will & Emery writes that
a recent consent order shows that exclusivity terms that arguably have the effect of harming competition may raise antitrust concerns.
Not exact matches
Former Attorney General, Martin Amidu in his
recent epistle said it is clear that the NDC government is «acting mischievously to politicize the excellent work of the Sole Judgment Debt Commissioner by connecting the NPP's Attorney - General who merely paid upon the
consent judgment the Supreme Court had refused to quash by certiorari during the NDC 2 Government as a means of aborting the further investigations
ordered by the Commissioner.»
If a lawyer has to endure their colleagues guffawing about their
recent conquests while they try to draft a
consent order, this can be a cause for complaint.
Recent decisions make it extremely difficult for anyone to extricate himself or herself from a
consent order where there has been a clear acceptance of, and buying into, the risk.
There have been a number of
recent cases in which the theoretical difference in percentage awards as between husband and wife has altered dramatically following events which have taken place not long after the signing of a
consent order.
Parties who believe that they can get away with inaccurate disclosure, whether by not fully declaring assets, or being inaccurate as to the values of those assets for example, should take heed from the two
recent cases of Sharland v Sharland and Gohil v Gohil which both dealt with husbands being fraudulent in their disclosure and resulted in the
consent orders being set aside.
However, more
recent commentaries on the ALRA (NT) have called for this
consent requirement to be reduced in
order to allow traditional owners themselves to control development on their land and to take responsibility for their actions.105
provide for the application of
recent amendments to the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth) to native title proceedings that began before 1 January 2009 and where evidence has been heard, if the parties
consent or the Federal Court
orders that it is in the interests of justice to do so [91]
The
recent involvement of the Competition Bureau of Canada in the affairs of professional Real Estate, brought CREA to capitulate to demands that CREA would need to subsequently try and impose on all the Real Estate Associations across Canada, in
order to comply with the «
Consent Agreement».
In a
recent story in REM, Vito Campanale proposed an alternate way to obtain
consent from buyers and sellers, in
order to release the deposit back to the buyer if conditions are not fulfilled.
There was the Prohibition
Order of 1988, the US Department of Justice settlement with NAR a few years ago, the
recent Consent Agreement with CREA and now the final fatal blow is to come with upcoming hearing this fall before the Competition Tribunal.