by Rob | Nov 3, 2014 | News
A personal injury lawyer and IT entrepreneur claims to have taken a step towards eliminating paper signatures in legal transactions.
by Rob | Oct 31, 2014 | News
According to a recent survey carried out by the Conveyancing Association, as many as 200,000 buyers will lose out on homes they had hoped to buy this year. The reason? Well, there are several.
by Rob | Oct 31, 2014 | News
Countrywide has revealed that so far this year it has invested £43.2m in acquisitions to consolidate its position as the UK’s largest property services group.
by Rob | Oct 31, 2014 | News
Barrister entrepreneur William Rees has launched an online drafting service aimed at mainly at solicitors in small firms.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2014 | News
The Energy Act 2011 contains a number of provisions which will affect owners and occupiers of property.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2014 | News
Tomorrow is Halloween, which brings us to the ghostly topic of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2014 | News
Six estate agents in and around the constituency of campaigning Labour MP Stella Creasy have signed up to a so-called ‘Fight Against Double Charging’ – a name she gives to Sale By Informal Tender contracts.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2014 | News
Global Wealth Manager UBS are the latest company to engage the services of Lawyer Checker in a bid to fight the criminal conveyancers.
by Rob | Oct 30, 2014 | News
Law firms and chambers need to accelerate the increase in workforce diversity if they are to ward off the “nuclear” option of quotas being imposed, the Black Solicitors Network has warned.
by Rob | Oct 29, 2014 | News
Nearly half of conveyancers say that the stability of the housing market is a real issue for them.
by Rob | Oct 29, 2014 | News
The Legal Services Board has approved the introduction of restrictions that prevent large organisations from making claims on the Solicitors Compensation Fund.
by Rob | Oct 28, 2014 | News
Home Counties law firm B Legal failed in its duties to a purchaser of mortgage-backed securities, the High Court has held, in two of the four test cases it considered.
by Rob | Oct 27, 2014 | News
The former chief executive of collapsed north-west firm Wolstenholmes has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
by Rob | Oct 27, 2014 | News
A tribunal judge has described as “beyond comprehension” the failure of a financially struggling law firm to make special arrangements with HMRC under the ‘time to pay’ scheme.
by Rob | Oct 27, 2014 | News
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has given the green light to a 10-firm consortium led by the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) to develop a specialist probate apprenticeship.
by Rob | Oct 27, 2014 | News
Rapid growth in the conveyancing market is beginning to level out, according to research.
by Rob | Oct 27, 2014 | News
An illustration of entrepreneurial opportunism – having the mindset to recognise and take up chances when they come knocking.
by Rob | Oct 25, 2014 | News
On Friday the SRA published the findings from the extensive engagement work undertaken to support the development of the Competence Statement.
by Rob | Oct 25, 2014 | News
The SRA has more than halved the value of outstanding claims to the compensation fund in the last year, latest figures have revealed.
by Rob | Oct 24, 2014 | News
The House of Lords yesterday gave the final go-ahead for chartered legal executives and others with appropriate expertise to offer probate and conveyancing services without the supervision of solicitors.
