by Rob | Mar 5, 2018 | News
HM Land Registry has insisted that requirements to confirm a client’s identity for a property transaction will not impose new liabilities on conveyancers – who are reminded in updated guidance that they face 10 years in prison if they provide false...
by Rob | Mar 2, 2018 | News
Six out of 50 firms visited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to review the sector’s compliance with new money laundering regulations have been referred to ‘disciplinary processes’, the regulator has revealed.
by Rob | Mar 2, 2018 | News
A well-known London law firm that let one of its partners use its client account as a banking facility, with millions of pounds going in and out, has been fined £35,000 by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
by Rob | Mar 1, 2018 | News
House moves could be jeopardised tomorrow by Siberian weather conditions blown in by the Beast from the East.
by Rob | Mar 1, 2018 | News
A bank that relied on inaccurate information supplied by its borrower’s solicitor should not have won a negligence claim against her, because it failed to carry out its own checks, the Supreme Court has ruled.
by Rob | Feb 28, 2018 | News
New data has revealed that January saw a 37% increase in the number of people in search of a new home.
