by Rob | May 13, 2016 | News
Law firms are generally effective at tackling money laundering, but the Solicitors Regulation Authority says solicitors must avoid complacency after it uncovered examples of malpractice during site audits.
by Rob | May 12, 2016 | News
Almost half of failed property transactions over the past year are the fault of conveyancing delays, while buyers pay more to use an estate agent’s legal service.
by Rob | May 11, 2016 | News
Bribery and corruption represent serious threats to economic growth, individual livelihoods and civil society across the world.
by Rob | May 11, 2016 | News
Free2Convey, the conveyancing portal designed as a free rival to the Law Society’s failed portal Veyo, is to relaunch itself to conveyancers, estate agents and the public “within weeks”, it has emerged.
by Rob | May 11, 2016 | News
A wholesale review which is expected to slash the Solicitors Regulation Authority Handbook from over 600 pages to nearer 50 may be ‘too much’ for law firms to cope with, the Legal Services Board warned.
by Rob | May 10, 2016 | News
Gazumping could be banned by the Government, as it has emerged that officials have held private meetings with industry to discuss bringing forward the point at which house sales become legal, in line with Scotland.
by Rob | May 10, 2016 | News
Changing from one regulator to another should not be difficult and should not be restricted due to the exclusive and unnecessarily stringent arrangements operating between one regulator and the insurance industry.
by Rob | May 10, 2016 | News
Almost all independent and mid-sized firms say they are bracing for hard times according to a report commissioned by LexisNexis.
by Rob | May 10, 2016 | News
Conveyancing specialists have welcomed news that 29 insurers have signed up to a new flood protection scheme.
by Rob | May 9, 2016 | News
A smaller council and a management board including lay members feature in proposals for a new governance model for the Law Society expected to be put before the Society’s governing body later this month.
by Rob | May 9, 2016 | News
Conveyancing, like estate agency, is a service and you will never be able to negate or automate the overwhelming human factors involved in this process.
by Rob | May 9, 2016 | News
We all know that serving a notice to complete makes time of the essence- meaning that failure to perform by the date fixed amounts to a repudiatory breach of contract.
by Rob | May 5, 2016 | News
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers has moved to boost its appeal to property law firms currently regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority by changing its arrangements for professional indemnity insurance.
by Rob | May 5, 2016 | News
MPs have been told that estate agents should be licensed as billions of pounds ‘slosh’ through London, with some of the world’s vilest dictators buying up property.
by Rob | May 4, 2016 | News
Commercial property solicitor Howard Meakin of Spratt Endicott Truman has won tmgroup’s quarterly prize draw, bagging himself a coveted technology prize bundle.
by Rob | May 3, 2016 | News
For the second year running professional indemnity insurance (PII) renewal went smoothly for the vast majority of firms, the Law Society of England and Wales’s 2015-16 PII survey has found.
by Rob | May 3, 2016 | News
A Law Society taskforce will meet this week to discuss government plans to overhaul the UK’s anti-money laundering regime, amid concerns about a threat to a statutory defence available to solicitors who report suspicious activity.
by Rob | Apr 29, 2016 | News
Professional indemnity insurance renewal in 2015/16 was plain sailing for most firms, with average costs falling 8% year on year, latest research reveals.
by Rob | Apr 29, 2016 | News
More than one in five law firms (22%) have been targeted by scammers in the past year, research for the Law Society has revealed. Money was successfully stolen from client account in 8% of these cases.
by Rob | Apr 29, 2016 | News
The Law Society has questioned what evidence there is to show solicitors are not telling clients about their right to complain.
