by Rob | Jul 7, 2014 | News
The Law Society has teamed up with software company Mastek UK Limited to deliver its conveyancing portal, which aims to speed up the home-buying process.
by Rob | Jul 7, 2014 | News
The Law Society is to take its campaign against reforms of professional indemnity insurance to the Legal Services Board.
by Rob | Jul 4, 2014 | News
The majority of conveyancing is still being done by smaller firms, new Land Registry data shows.
by Rob | Jul 4, 2014 | News
A a stripped-down telephone advice service for a single pre-payment fee of £45 was launched this week by legal entrepreneur Brad Askew.
by Rob | Jul 4, 2014 | News
The growing scandal of organisations employing non-existent ‘law firms’ to pressure debtors has taken a new turn today, with the giant Lloyds Banking Group the latest to come under scrutiny.
by Rob | Jul 4, 2014 | News
The plan to change the level of mandatory cover has one more hurdle to clear.
by Rob | Jul 3, 2014 | News
Searches are taking weeks to come through in several parts of the country.
by Rob | Jul 3, 2014 | News
Smaller law firms are struggling to retain their junior partners in advance of tough new capital requirements set out by HM Revenue & Customs an executive search firm has claimed.
by Rob | Jul 3, 2014 | News
The Board of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has approved a series of changes to its regulatory requirements to make them more proportionate and targeted and so reduce the cost and burden of regulation.
by Rob | Jul 3, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s board today voted to cut to £500,000 the minimum level of professional indemnity insurance cover required from practitioners.
by Rob | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Lenders have hit out at proposals to reduce the requirements for conveyancers to hold professional indemnity insurance.
by Rob | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Grenville Turner, outgoing chief executive of Countrywide, has won a business turnaround award for his achievements in pulling Britain’s biggest estate agent out of the ashes.
by Rob | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Research into fees suggests that British agents are amongst the best value anywhere in the world.
by Rob | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Bogus law firms and money laundering have become two of the biggest current risks to law firms, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) said yesterday, in publishing its 2014 risk outlook.
by Rob | Jul 2, 2014 | News
Allen & Overy has today reported record income and profits, taking advantage of ‘more stable’ global markets and returns from a ’strategy of counter-cyclical investment through the financial crisis’.
by Rob | Jul 1, 2014 | News
Searches by Exeter City Council were taking five working days until a month ago, but are now taking far longer.
by Rob | Jul 1, 2014 | News
Ministers have cancelled plans to turn the bulk of Land Registry into a stand-alone company in the run-up to privatisation, according to newspaper reports at the weekend.
by Rob | Jul 1, 2014 | News
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has warned it may be ‘only a matter of time’ before another large and costly firm intervention is necessary.
by Rob | Jul 1, 2014 | News
Peers have given their backing to a law making it easier for divorcing couples to resolve financial issues and make pre-nuptial agreements binding.
by Rob | Jun 30, 2014 | News
Controversial plans to privatise the Land Registry have been scrapped by the Government after a revolt by civil servants.
