Clash between lenders and conveyancers over PI (PIE)
Lenders have hit out at proposals to reduce the requirements for conveyancers to hold professional indemnity insurance.
Accolade for Countrywide boss who turned company around (PIE)
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.
Figures confirm ‘good value’ British agents (EAT)
Research into fees suggests that British agents are amongst the best value anywhere in the world.
Bogus law firms and money laundering rise up SRA’s risk register for law firms (LF)
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.
Allen & Overy posts ‘highest ever’ revenue and profit (LSG)
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’.