by Rob | Sep 6, 2016 | News
A new clampdown on tax avoidance could target advisers, but critics warn that the proposals go too far and may end up capturing traditionally accepted tax planning.
by Rob | Sep 5, 2016 | News
The most effective driver of quality, innovative and sustainable legal services is the market itself, the Law Society said today as it responded to comments from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
by Rob | Sep 5, 2016 | News
The Land Registry is no longer accepting any applications or correspondence relating to applications if they are marked ‘Private and Confidential’ or ‘Private’ or ‘Confidential’ – instead, they are being returned to their senders.
by Rob | Sep 5, 2016 | News
There is still evidence of a culture within law firms where incoming client enquiries are not valued, or seen from the client’s point of view, a new report has found.
by Rob | Sep 2, 2016 | News
Around 60 Countrywide Group estate agency offices are expected to close in the next few weeks.
by Rob | Sep 2, 2016 | News
The Conveyancing Association has confirmed it will continue unabated with its campaign to reform and amend the leasehold transaction process, despite recent developments.
by Rob | Sep 2, 2016 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s proposed reforms to the SRA handbook and accounts rules risk ‘weakening client protection’ and ‘damaging the reputation of the solicitor profession both at home and abroad’, the Law Society has warned.
by Rob | Sep 1, 2016 | News
CML post Brexit figures already indicate a slowdown in housing market. Perhaps it’s not surprising that so called ‘problematic properties’ i.e. those with more unusual characteristics are more difficult to sell.
by Rob | Sep 1, 2016 | News
People could in future be unable to sell their homes unless the properties meet minimum energy performance standards.
by Rob | Sep 1, 2016 | News
Did your end of August transactions all complete yesterday?
by Rob | Sep 1, 2016 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is considering whether to make data on complaints and insurance claims against law firms available to consumers as “possible indicators of quality”, it has revealed.
by Rob | Aug 30, 2016 | News
The consequences are far-reaching and mean that it is not just your Regulator that is interested in ensuring you have adequate risk management in place.
by Rob | Aug 29, 2016 | News
Significant amendments to the Finance Bill slipped in at committee stage set a disturbing precedent of avoiding proper consultation and scrutiny, the Law Society said recently.
by Rob | Aug 29, 2016 | News
South Wales conveyancers Convey Law have brought through their first 17 paralegal conveyancers through their fast track training programme.
by Rob | Aug 29, 2016 | News
A solicitor who acted on both sides of a conveyancing transaction without written consent has agreed to leave the profession.
by Rob | Aug 26, 2016 | News
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has fired a warning shot across the bows of the Law Society in the wake of the latter’s decision to spend £61m over four years on new IT systems for both its representative and regulatory arms.
by Rob | Aug 25, 2016 | News
The Law Society has rejected as potentially damaging to clients a watchdog’s call for regulations to force law firms to publish the average cost of services.
by Rob | Aug 25, 2016 | News
Family law specialists should be required to work under fixed fees, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has suggested as it ramped up its call for regulatory intervention to improve transparency in the market.
by Rob | Aug 25, 2016 | News
A conveyancing clerk who created two emails purportedly from a client has received the biggest fine the Solicitors Regulation Authority has slapped on a law firm employee thanks to his former employer’s alternative business structure status.
by Rob | Aug 22, 2016 | News
The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme – billed as helping first time buyers raise a deposit – as a fake.
