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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.

Rob Hailstone August 29, 2016

“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

Rob Hailstone August 26, 2016

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.

Rob Hailstone August 25, 2016

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

Rob Hailstone August 25, 2016

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

Rob Hailstone August 25, 2016

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.

Rob Hailstone August 22, 2016

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

Rob Hailstone August 20, 2016

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.

Rob Hailstone August 19, 2016

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.

Rob Hailstone August 19, 2016

“Misinformation is as big a risk as knotweed itself” say plant experts (TC)

Senior figures from the Japanese knotweed remediation industry have called for greater transparency, as the UK enters “epidemic” risk levels and property sellers, agents, advisors and insurers find themselves liable.

Rob Hailstone August 19, 2016

“Private & Confidential” applications will not be accepted; Land Registry (TC)

Postal correspondence relating to applications that feature the labels “Private”, “Confidential” or “Private & confidential” will either be returned to the sender or be put through an inspection process.

Rob Hailstone August 19, 2016

Planning and environmental legislation update – August 2016

All change at the top.

Rob Hailstone August 18, 2016