People in financial distress making "a bad situation worse" by consulting "hob lawyers": Judge

A High Court judge has dismissed an appeal by a Cavan couple against a bank repossession order, while strongly criticising unqualified advisers giving flawed legal guidance to homeowners in financial difficulty. Mr Justice Seamus Noonan rejected all grounds of the application by Mark Flynn and Mairead Flynn from Derry Shercock, who sought to set aside a Cavan Circuit Court order granting KBC Bank possession of their…