by Rob | Oct 26, 2016 | News
The company that owns Heathrow airport is reported to have said that it will buy 750 homes on the site of its proposed third runway through Compulsory Purchase Orders, and will offer to buy another 3,750 homes nearby if their owners wish.
by Rob | Oct 26, 2016 | News
Searches UK discuss recent findings from Shoppers Anonymous who investigated a client’s experience when seeking services from 85 law firms in the UK.
by Rob | Oct 25, 2016 | News
New tax avoidance schemes are emerging in the wake of the Stamp Duty 3% surcharge on the purchase of second homes that came into force on April 1.
by Rob | Oct 25, 2016 | News
Why do so many people think that showing people homes is all that agents do?
by Rob | Oct 25, 2016 | News
Having been found guilty of numerous fraud offences, former solicitor Ian Macfarlane has been ordered to pay £18,000 of court fees and has been jailed for a second time.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2016 | News
Solicitors who ceded control of their firms to non-lawyers – in one instance they claimed their practice had been taken over by a criminal gang – have been sanctioned by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2016 | News
An ex-solicitor has been found guilty and jailed for five years for five counts of fraud by false representation – his second spell in jail for fraud after he previously stole from his firm’s client account.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2016 | News
Solicitors’ professional indemnity insurers paid out around £2bn due to negligence claims in the 10 years to 2014, startling new figures released yesterday by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) revealed.
by Rob | Oct 22, 2016 | News
A solicitor has been fined for her role in a scheme that saw her former firm help clients avoid £2m worth of stamp duty land tax payments.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
A former estate agent who still keenly follows the industry says young people view agents as dinosaurs.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
The almost non-stop series of tax changes affecting all aspects of the housing market in recent years looks set to continue next month.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
A firm costing the compensation fund almost £3 million through their handling of conveyancing transactions have had three of their solicitors struck off.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
Solicitors’ professional indemnity insurers paid out around £2bn due to negligence claims in the 10 years to 2014, startling new figures released yesterday by the Solicitors Regulation Authority revealed.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
Regulators will try again in 2017 with proposals to reform minimum terms for solicitors’ professional indemnity insurance.
by Rob | Oct 21, 2016 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has backed away from forcing firms to publish price information.
by Rob | Oct 20, 2016 | News
A solicitor has been fined £10,000 and banned from owning his own firm after a tribunal hearing revealed he gave a convicted fraudster an ‘inappropriate level of influence’ in running a firm he had bought.
by Rob | Oct 19, 2016 | News
The government’s decision to retain the anti-money laundering consent regime will come as a relief to solicitors who were potentially facing an unjustified removal of legal cover for meeting their obligations to report suspicious activity, the Law Society of...
by Rob | Oct 19, 2016 | News
A Welsh-based property services company aims to speed up the house buying process by creating new partnerships with a surveying company, as well as a buildings and content insurance provider.
by Rob | Oct 19, 2016 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has made a direct plea to government to use next month’s Autumn Statement to make good on the plan announced last year to grant it full independence from the Law Society.
by Rob | Oct 19, 2016 | News
A new co-working space for legal tech innovators was launched recently at the Legal Geek conference in London’s Shoreditch.
