Could conveyancing reviews drive out property law ‘dabblers’?

Could conveyancing reviews drive out property law ‘dabblers’?

Publication of reviews will help drive people out of the industry that do not do not specialise in conveyancing.

This is according to Beth Rudolf of the Conveyancing Association, who spoke at last week’s conference from the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC).

Responding to the recommendations of the Competition and Markets Authority, the CLC, along with the Solicitors Regulation Authority and CILEx Regulation are working to develop a generic format for conveyancing and probate services. These measures will aim to improve transparency for consumers in terms of both prices and work offered.

The CA’s director of delivery was speaking on a panel alongside the CLC’s chief executive Sheila Kumar, Paul Kellaway, the assistant director of the CMA as well as Mike Ockenden, the Society of Licensed Conveyancers head of secretariat.

According to the Law Gazette, Rudolf mentioned that prospective clients are much more likely to select a conveyancer who has 400 four-star reviews than a firm with a single five-star review.

Kumar also highlighted that professionals who specialise in areas such as conveyancing have less to worry about stating ‘It’s all you do so you know what you do. We all have expectations now of being able to see reviews. If you cannot see one, you draw your own inferences from the fact there are none there.’

On the progress that licensed conveyancers have made in the eyes of the legal community, Ockenden stated: ‘We have a really important message we can get out. We are specialist property lawyers. Licensed conveyancers have come a long way in the last 25 years – from being the poor relation to the solicitor community to being recognised. We are going to see an awful lot of serious solicitor conveyancers coming to the CLC. We’re licensed conveyancers, we’re specialist property lawyers, we know what we’re doing.’

 

Georgia Owen

Georgia is the Content Executive and will be your primary contact when submitting your latest news. While studying for an LLB at the University of Liverpool, Georgia gained experience working within retail, as well as social media management. She later went on to work for a local newspaper, before starting at Today’s Conveyancer.

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