A £1m. rise in the cost of legal and professional fees because of difficult cases such as the collapse of Landsbanki Guernsey helped push the Guernsey Financial Services Commission into the red last year.

It made a loss of £480,000, more than £2m. down from the profit it made in 2007.

Guernsey Press 10-July-09

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