Abusive lending ruins lives and leads to human rights violations.
Abusive lending can manifest itself in various loaning practices and at different phases of the lending process.
Abusive lending may lead to violation of a range of human rights, including the right to human dignity, the prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment
Abusive lending contributes to excessive indebtedness.
A new, updated Guide, published today, could help 20,000 Irish families still in mortgage distress, many as a continuing legacy of the crash of 2008.
In an op-ed penned for the Irish Examiner, Julie Sadlier, a solicitor who has been working with people in mortgage distress facing the prospect of home repossession, writes that a recent High Court judgment offers a “ray of hope” for borrowers.