Are you Aware of the Impact of the Insurance Act 2015 (IC)
The consequences are far-reaching and mean that it is not just your Regulator that is interested in ensuring you have adequate risk management in place.
Buy-to-let tax changes ‘legislation by stealth’ (LSG)
Significant amendments to the Finance Bill slipped in at committee stage set a disturbing precedent of avoiding proper consultation and scrutiny, the Law Society said recently.
Convey Law bring through first 17 “online graduates” (TC)
South Wales conveyancers Convey Law have brought through their first 17 paralegal conveyancers through their fast track training programme.
Solicitor leaves profession after acting for both sides in property deal (LF)
A solicitor who acted on both sides of a conveyancing transaction without written consent has agreed to leave the profession.
“We’re watching you” – Legal Services Board warns Law Society over £61m IT project (LF)
The Legal Services Board (LSB) has fired a warning shot across the bows of the Law Society in the wake of the latter’s decision to spend £61m over four years […]
Society hits back at ‘misconceived’ price transparency call (LSG)
The Law Society has rejected as potentially damaging to clients a watchdog’s call for regulations to force law firms to publish the average cost of services.
Force family lawyers to offer fixed fees, consumer panel suggests (LF)
Family law specialists should be required to work under fixed fees, the Legal Services Consumer Panel has suggested as it ramped up its call for regulatory intervention to improve transparency […]
Conveyancing clerk banned from profession over fake client emails (LSG)
A conveyancing clerk who created two emails purportedly from a client has received the biggest fine the Solicitors Regulation Authority has slapped on a law firm employee thanks to his […]
Help To Buy ISAs exposed as not helping first time deposits after all (EAT)
The Daily Telegraph appears to have exposed the government’s much-vaunted Buy To Let ISA scheme – billed as helping first time buyers raise a deposit – as a fake.
Competitive, innovative legal profession is in the best interest of clients
In responding to the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) interim report on the legal sector, the Law Society of England and Wales again welcomed the news that they are not […]
Haart has a purple moment – and it’s a clever bit of marketing (PIE)
Haart is offering a special deal on its fees to vendors who have paid money upfront to an online agent but whose homes have not sold.
Are you acting in your clients’ best interests? (TC)
Clarity and communication are two fundamental parts of a conveyancer being wholly independent and having integrity.