Every now and again a new risk to conveyancers emerges that require a change in the way risk is managed. Examples include the development of environmental searches and also chancel enquiries. Surprisingly many Read More
The Law Society recently announced that Todmans SRE in Rayleigh, Essex were the 500th law firm in England & Wales to secure the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) accreditation. Partner at Todmans SRE, William Todman, Read More
Countrywide’s Nigel Stockton last week criticised the lack of context that accompanied the issue of CML circular 2531, listing the firms that have been accredited under the Law Society CQS scheme. The circular highlighted the Read More
A well respected survey has revealed some interesting views from solicitors generally about the post ABS direction of prices in the conveyancing sector. As we all know conveyancers are happy to fall over themselves to Read More
City of London based Prime Professions have been appointed as the new brokers for the Council for Licensed Conveyancers’ (CLC) Master Policy Scheme following a formal tender. The specialist professional indemnity insurance (PII) broker will Read More
Louise Humphries Associate of Cowling Swift & Kitchin Solicitors in York has written this conveyancing article to balance the views that change in the legal profession is always good and she advocates that many of Read More
Paul Hajek a solicitor with Clutton Cox and one of the most active conveyancers using social media to promote his business has used his skills to launch an e-petition to kick start housing activity. We Read More
Whilst many professional indemnity insurance companies are running for the hills when it comes to small solicitor firms Marsh believes it has identified and partnered with two that want to insure them. Marsh has issued Read More
According to The Insurance Times, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) have scrapped their recently redrafted version of the Qualifying Insurers’ Agreement for Professional Indemnity Insurance following complaints that some insurers were unfairly “under-declaring” Assigned Risks Read More
Local firm reminds Liverpool of EPP2 and the need to register septic tanks. Is it time to change your procedures now before the compulsory date? Whilst the ability to register septic tanks has existed Read More
Proposed new public and consumer interest tests for regulation in a diverse market – will the Legal Services Board discussion paper mean an increase in reserved legal activities or a reduction in regulatory restrictions? The Legal Read More
Often solicitors complain about the Law Society policy or procedures. A reasonble response is that if it matters that much to you go and get involved and make a difference. Richard Barnett has for Read More
The Department of Communities and Local Government has produced two leaflets on rent charges and the Rentcharges Act 1977 which will be of interest to conveyancers. Since 1977 the Rentcharges Act has limited the creation of new Read More
Senior Supervising Solicitor for Optima Legal’s Newcastle and Bradford offices, Paul Mason, has recently been promoted to Partner. Having joined the firm in 2009 Paul, who has in excess of 20 years experience specialising in residential Read More
The latest LSL Acadametrics HPI release shows that transactions, year on year, are down 5.9 per cent with price falls of 0.1 per cent, the lowest level for some 19 months. The only region showing growth is London, Read More
Readers of Today’s Conveyancer have been offered discounted tickets to the next Legal Futures conference “New ways to practise law” on 17 October in London. New ways to practise law will look at the challenges Read More
The latest RICS UK Housing Market survey, released today, reports that housing market activity remained stagnant in July and house prices dipped further. There was a slight improvement on June’s net balance of -26 Read More
The Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) renewal date is fast approaching and Chartis UK, a leading provider of Professional Indemnity Insurance, announce that they will not be writing new business in this sector. Chartis, amongst other Read More
Optima Legal have won the ‘What Mortgage’ award for ‘Best Legal Services Provider’, having been nominated alongside Legal Move, Rose & Rose Solicitors, and 1st Property Lawyers. What Mortgage is a monthly mortgage magazine whose Read More
NHBC recently reported a “stable first half of the year for new home registrations” but indicated that there was still some way to go as far as the housing market is concerned. Statistics for Read More