‘Conveyancers and other property stakeholders have called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to allow them to move staff in and out of furlough on a weekly basis as the home-moving market recovers.’
Legal Futures, 26th May 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A law firm shut down by its regulator last year has been ordered to pay former staff £375,000 for multiple employment law breaches.’
Legal Futures, 22nd May 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The furlough scheme should be extended for property businesses, like conveyancers, where income required to pay staff will not be available for months after work is undertaken once lockdown is lifted, the government has been told.’
Legal Futures, 23rd April 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected a “fanciful” £600,000 conveyancing negligence claim against the law firm Gateley, based on an error admitted by the firm.’
Legal Futures, 6th April 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The government has urged home buyers and renters to delay moving to a new house if possible during the coronavirus lockdown and said there must be social distancing if they cannot.’
Legal Futures, 26th March 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The role of the conveyancer is undoubtedly going to change as much of the administrative side of the role becomes automated over the coming years, a new report from the Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC) has predicted.’
Legal Futures, 28th January 2020
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘When interpreting a property contract the applicable principles are essentially the same as those applied to any other contract. However, it is easy to overlook the fact that there remain some distinct principles of particular relevance or application to property contracts. This short paper identifies two examples.’
Wilberforce Chambers, 13th November 2019
Source: www.wilberforce.co.uk
‘Only 19% of home buyers use online conveyancers, despite the dominance of online searches as a way of finding property, a report has found.’
Legal Futures, 19th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A solicitor discarded an undertaking he had given and tried to take advantage of a mistake made by the law firm on the other side of a conveyancing transaction, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 15th November 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A “single source of truth” that contains all the information about a property before it goes on the market is in the works as part of plans to speed up the home buying and selling process, it has emerged.’
Legal Futures, 30th October 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A finding of serious misconduct against a solicitor does not require striking off or an immediate suspension from practice, the High Court has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 28th October 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The buzz around distributed ledger technology (DLT), including blockchain, is much more than hype and the tech will eventually transform conveyancing and probate, an academic specialising in innovation has indicated.’
Legal Futures, 24th October 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘We will all be familiar with the questions asked and answered by solicitors in the lead up to the purchase of a house. For commercial property the same process is carried out but the stakes, at least financially, can be even higher. Pre-contract correspondence between solicitors can be a fertile ground for possible misrepresentation claims if a development does not go well. The recent case of Wilson & Sharp Investments Ltd v Falmouth Property Investments Ltd raises some interesting points of law concerning misrepresentation claims, particularly between developers, and also important issues of procedure for summary judgment applications.’
Practical Law: Construction Blog, 19th June 2019
‘The body that regulates licensed conveyancers is looking at steep reductions in the cost of practising, arguing that “good regulation does not have to come with an onerous price tag”.’
Legal Futures, 14th May 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A trial of blockchain involving the digital transfer of property ownership has been completed by HM Land Registry, but the agency has no plans to adopt the emerging technology itself any time soon.’
Legal Futures, 12th April 2019
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘This article will look at just one of the (numerous) issues of which transactional solicitors need to be aware when dealing with residential conveyancing: protected residential tenancies. The following samples the chapter on Residential Leasehold Conveyancing in the Law Society’s latest publication: Risk & Negligence in Property Transactions edited by John de Waal QC.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 15th February 2019
Source: hardwicke.co.uk
‘A solicitor who regularly overcharged clients for search fees and transferred money from client to office account without their consent has been suspended for two years by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT).’
Legal Futures, 18th December 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A law firm that also owns an estate agency and acted for seller, buyer and as the seller’s agent in 14 residential conveyancing transactions has been fined over the conflict of interest this generated.’
Legal Futures, 5th November 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘There is “no public interest” in allowing a negligent conveyancer to avoid liability when they did not know that their client was actually engaged in mortgage fraud, the Court of Appeal has ruled.’
Legal Futures, 14th September 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
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