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Money Mart charged "criminal" interest rates on 4.5 million payday loans over 10 years, a lawyer representing 264,000 borrowers told a judge during the first day of a class-action suit
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agreements in an attempt to mask the true nature of the criminal interest it is charging," Harvey Strosberg, lead counsel on the case, said in a statement./
National Post
March 11, 2004
Civil suit
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while allowing reasonable short-term rates.
Right now, the Criminal Code sets a 60 per cent annual interest rate limit on the financial sector, a bar that didn't take into account short-term lending
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an interest rate above 60 per cent - the maximum amount of interest that can be charged under Canada's Criminal Code.
The Toronto Star
August 16, 2006
Payday-loan ruling could affect other cases
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"It can be argued that payday loans involving exorbitant interest rates, high fees and punishing penalties for people who cannot pay are nothing more than loansharking with a quasi-legal face
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could crush the industry in Canada.
Bill McNally said he has been given the green light to proceed with a class-action lawsuit alleging the companiesw charge criminal interest rates.
"The whole industry
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& spoils, Credence goods: taking advantage of the innocents, Criminal interest rates, Debt traps, Fee surprises at settlement time, Jealously guarded monopoly on the provision of legal services
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loan industries, said the source. The Criminal Code says lenders can't charge annual interest rates more than 60 per cent.
The legislation would exempt the provinces from applying that rule
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interest rates of 60 per cent a year, or 90 cents to borrow $100 for a week. But payday lenders charge interest and fees totalling as much as $13 and $35 per $100.
Federal and provincial regulators have
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, and allow back-to-back loans, which in short order can balloon into huge costs.
It's a criminal offence in Canada to charge in excess of 60 per cent interest per year, but the law, experts say, is flawed
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