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The Complaints Commissioner published a decision on a complaint that the FSA failed to act fairly, as required under the Financial Services and Markets Act.
On 27 March 2014, the Complaints Commissioner published a
decision on a complaint that the FSA, the predecessor of the FCA
and the PRA, failed to act fairly, as required under the Financial
Services and Markets Act, in publishing the Final Notice relating
to the Complainant. The Complaints Commissioner found that the FSA
did not exercise fairness in its decision and recommends that the
FSA apologise to the Complainant for the delay in the investigation
of his complaint, pay certain sums to the Complainant, reviews its
procedures to ensure that there is an assessment of fairness of the
publication of Final Notices going forwards and considers
withdrawing the publication of the Complainant's Final Notice.
The Complaints Commissioner is investigating a related complaint
from the same Complainant regarding the FSA's conduct of the
enforcement investigation, in particular the exercise of a search
and seizure warrant.
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