Co-op members to receive financial reward for using legal services arm (LF)
Members of the Co-op are set to receive money back if they use the group’s legal services arm.
Ex-estate agent launches new conveyancing service designed for agents (PIE)
A former estate agent has launched a new conveyancing service for estate agents.
How can the consumer’s home purchase/sale experience be improved? (TC)
Eddie Goldsmith discusses issues within the home buying and selling process, following a roundtable hosted by the Conveyancing Association attended by many industry stakeholders.
Open thread: how would you reform the homebuying system?
Conveyancers learned yesterday that the government is to review the homebuying process, which rekindled memories of the much-criticised HIP scrapped in 2010. How would you reform the system?
Son of HIPs? Agents could supply more information about property at marketing (PIE)
A Tory MP has said that the Government must accept the fundamental need for complete change in the conveyancing system.
MP calls for CML handbook to be reduced to speed up conveyancing (TC)
Reducing the size of the Council for Mortgage Lenders Handbook would vastly speed up the conveyancing process according to one former conveyancing MP.
VAT on CON29 searches to be delayed again (TC)
The addition of VAT to local authority searches has been deferred for a second time. VAT was set to be applied to CON29 searches from 4th July, but the decision […]
Law Society pushes ahead with governance reforms (LF)
The Law Society has said it is making progress in its overhaul of governance, after its ruling council agreed that work should be done to “develop suggestions for change in […]
Government vows to look again at confidentiality of lawyer-client communications
News that ministers will continue to work with professional bodies representing the legal profession over the issue of legal professional privilege (LPP) has been welcomed by the Law Society of […]
Leave anti-money laundering guidance to us – Law Society (LSG)
THE professions should ’own’ anti-money laundering guidance as they best understand the fight against organised crime, the Law Society said recently.
Ministers to consult this year on modernising conveyancing (LSG)
The government is to publish a ‘call for evidence’ later this year to modernise the homebuying experience amid concerns about conveyancing.
Conveyancers sanctioned for advice failures and registration oversight (LF)
A conveyancer who failed to report important details to lender clients or follow their instructions in over 100 transactions has been fined £2,000 by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.