The buying and selling process has not improved during my forty years in conveyancing (EAT)
Forty years ago this week, as a spotty 16 year old, I first began working in the legal profession. In fact, I still have the letter from J. W. Ward […]
World’s first all-online auction this autumn (EAT)
The first-ever all-online property auction – where a contract is emailed and digitally signed by sellers and buyers, so the entire procedure happens via email and the internet – is […]
Be More Uruguay? No! Be More Germany! (IC)
I think it was receiving sympathy from my German neighbour the morning after the Uruguay game that was so hard to take. My inferiority by nationality was palpable and reflected in […]
Where now for legal regulation? (LF)
A direct consequence of the Government’s decision in May not to make any major changes to the regulatory framework for legal services is that it simultaneously fired the starting gun for […]
ICAEW wins power to licence probate ABSs (LF)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has been given the green light by Parliament to regulate alternative business structures which provide probate services, with dozens of […]