Equality considerations in lending

This article by Jonathan Lewis was first published in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (JIBFL).

Jonathan analyses the Court of Appeal’s landmark decision in Green v Southern Pacific Mortgage Ltd & Equality & Human Rights Commission [2018] EWCA Civ 854, where it held that a lender’s failure to transmute a borrower’s capital repayment mortgage to an interest only mortgage did not in the circumstances amount to disability discrimination.

This article forms part of an ongoing series being written by members of the Henderson Chambers Banking, Finance and Consumer Credit group for the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law.