by Rob | Jun 17, 2016 | News
The digitisation and centalisation of Local Land Charge data could take as long as six years once it begins at the end of next year according to Land Registry.
by Rob | Jun 16, 2016 | News
Privatisation of Land Registry threatens to undermine a vital piece of our national infrastructure.
by Rob | Jun 15, 2016 | News
Socrates Training Limited are seeking damages from the Law Society over claims Chancery Lane abused it’s position in specifying it’s own anti-money laundering training for the Conveyancing Quality Scheme must come from the Law Society itself.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2016 | News
BE Consultancy, owners of the Safemove Scheme have announced two conveyancing fraud prevention summits to take place on 28th and 30th of June in London and Nottingham respectively. Both events are free of charge.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2016 | News
Accounts filed at Companies House for the period ending 31st October have revealed the aborted project lost over £11 million.
by Rob | Jun 14, 2016 | News
The Law Society’s failed conveyancing portal Veyo recorded a loss of £11.4m in its last financial year, with rival product Free2Convey the cause of its demise, according to newly published annual accounts.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2016 | News
The Legal Ombudsman received complaints about 1,673 firms and individuals during the last financial year, the organisation revealed today in its annual name-and-shame list.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2016 | News
A new e-conveyancing platform has been launched in Edinburgh ahead of a roll-out across all of Scotland.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2016 | News
Privatisation of the Land Registry would mark a significant change to the status of a vital piece of our national infrastructure.
by Rob | Jun 13, 2016 | News
Conveyancers are counselling caution on reform of the homebuying process after confirmation of a government review rekindled memories of the much-criticised home information packs (HIPs) scrapped in 2010.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2016 | News
Members of the Co-op are set to receive money back if they use the group’s legal services arm.
by Rob | Jun 10, 2016 | News
A former estate agent has launched a new conveyancing service for estate agents.
by Rob | Jun 9, 2016 | News
Eddie Goldsmith discusses issues within the home buying and selling process, following a roundtable hosted by the Conveyancing Association attended by many industry stakeholders.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
Conveyancers learned yesterday that the government is to review the homebuying process, which rekindled memories of the much-criticised HIP scrapped in 2010. How would you reform the system?
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
A Tory MP has said that the Government must accept the fundamental need for complete change in the conveyancing system.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
Reducing the size of the Council for Mortgage Lenders Handbook would vastly speed up the conveyancing process according to one former conveyancing MP.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
The addition of VAT to local authority searches has been deferred for a second time. VAT was set to be applied to CON29 searches from 4th July, but the decision has been taken by HMRC to delay implementation again.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
The Law Society has said it is making progress in its overhaul of governance, after its ruling council agreed that work should be done to “develop suggestions for change in more detail”.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
News that ministers will continue to work with professional bodies representing the legal profession over the issue of legal professional privilege (LPP) has been welcomed by the Law Society of England and Wales.
by Rob | Jun 8, 2016 | News
THE professions should ’own’ anti-money laundering guidance as they best understand the fight against organised crime, the Law Society said recently.
