by Rob | Sep 17, 2014 | News
As this year’s renewal period goes into overdrive, commentators and firms have remarked on the increase in rates across the board. Premiums, it seems, are reflecting insurers’ recognition of the losses in the property market since the credit crisis of 2008 and their...
by Rob | Sep 16, 2014 | News
Personal injury specialist Minster Law has removed 17 managers in a shake-up of the firm’s case-handling system.
by Rob | Sep 16, 2014 | News
From October, different rules come into force on how assets should be distributed when someone dies without making a will, but it is still likely to cause a shock to families, particularly where couples were not married or in a civil partnership.
by Rob | Sep 16, 2014 | News
The SRA is set to press ahead with plans to stop the annual exercise of checking whether non-practising solicitors want to stay on the roll, despite strong opposition from the Law Society.
by Rob | Sep 16, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has begun searching for seven new individuals to join its decision-making team.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
A so-far-unpublished survey by the Conveyancing Association reportedly claims that a quarter of its members had experienced a buyer losing a leasehold property purchase due to delays and high fees levied by managing agents.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
A national firm representing some of the UK’s biggest landowners has warned that abolishing manorial rights could breach its clients’ human rights.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
Desmond Hudson became chief executive of the Law Society eight years ago, which seems like another age. And not only because the landscape in which solicitors operate has been so dramatically transformed in the interim.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
Yorkshire Bank has signalled that confidence is returning to UK legal lenders by increasing the number of law firms in its portfolio to 100.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
Solicitors in smaller firms face an increase of 10% or more in professional indemnity insurance premiums this year, according to a leading broker’s analysis of the market.
by Rob | Sep 15, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has received complaints about individual in-house solicitors accused of involvement in sending letters purporting to be from independent law firms, as more banks admitted adopting the practice.
by Rob | Sep 12, 2014 | News
Having been involved in the business of home buying and selling for just over 40 years, I thought I had experienced all of the frustrations that one could. However, I did not consider how annoyed and frustrated I would feel when my daughter (Anna) and future...
by Rob | Sep 12, 2014 | News
A new code has been published for the private rented sector.
by Rob | Sep 11, 2014 | News
An acute and worsening shortage of conveyancers is putting the brakes on the housing market, according to a respected market bellwether.
by Rob | Sep 11, 2014 | News
The average basic salary for those working in the UK residential property sector is £41,392.
by Rob | Sep 10, 2014 | News
Employees who take information about clients with them when they move jobs are committing a criminal offence, the information commissioner has warned solicitors after a paralegal was fined £300 yesterday.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2014 | News
A Birmingham solicitor currently serving five years in prison for property fraud offences has been struck off by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).
by Rob | Sep 9, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has reinforced its case for changes in its requirements for professional indemnity insurance in a letter to the LSB dated Friday, 5 September.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2014 | News
Two former partners have each been fined £2,000 for not closing down their firm properly once insurance cover had run out.
by Rob | Sep 9, 2014 | News
Six months on from the launch of Land Registry’s Property Alert service, more than 12,000 people have signed up to the free service which provides an early warning of suspicious activity on someone’s property.
