The FSA has been awarded £8,665 in legal costs after successfully defending its position to cancel the permissions of Scottish accountancy firm James Perman & Company (JPC).
The regulator cancelled the permission granted to Ayrshire-based JPC - which also provides financial planning and investment advice - in June 2010 after the firm repeatedly refused to comply with FSA requests to carry out a supervisory visit of its offices. JPC then referred the FSA's decision to the Upper Tribunal in July 2010 but it dismissed the reference in August 2011 and subsequently directed the FSA to cancel JPC's permission because of the firm's failure to cooperate with the regulator. The FSA cancelled the firms' permission on 19 September 2011. It then applied to the Upp...
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