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NewsNews focus: Conveyancing Association calls on members to help meet net zero targets
Conveyancers should consider refusing to act for clients whose actions fall foul of the government’s net zero targets, says controversial new guidance from their specialist trade body.
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News'Reduce your climate impact,' conveyancing body tells members
Helping the government reach net zero targets is one of two new Conveyancing Association member pledges.
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OpinionNot a solicitor? Don't judge us
Legal professionals who do not have the 'solicitor' title are perfectly capable of doing their job.
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NewsNews focus: Commonhold is the ‘only way forward’ – but how?
Piecemeal reform has helped leaseholders, but the government wants to reinvigorate commonhold as an alternative. However, making commonhold mainstream is not straightforward.
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NewsCommonhold 'about control, not service charges'
Conveyancing Association director says leasehold alternative can give home owners transparency.
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News'It's killing me': conference hears leaseholder distress
Consultant says leaseholder's struggles are not unusual and calls for greater promotion of commonhold.
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NewsNews focus: Upfront property information - a jungle of words
The Digital Property Market Steering Group aims to align the residential market with the commercial sector to speed up digital change. But regulation and poor communication could impede reform.
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OpinionClick to convey: a lesson from Norway
Want to see what a real home information pack looks like? Look north.
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NewsE-conveyancing coalition aims for upfront information
Digital Property Market Steering Group reveals ambitions at flagship conference.
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NewsSource of funds frustration prompts 'conveyancing rant'
Rose Davis says firms not really interested in conveyancing should stop messing about with it.
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NewsMonopolies watchdog approves searches sell-off
Disposal follows finding that Dye & Durham’s acquisition of TM Group 'substantially lessens competition'.
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NewsConveyancer offered discounts - to clients paying him directly
Firm’s internal audit found nine occasions when clients paid into salaried partner’s personal account.
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NewsWye Valley firm absorbs conveyancing practice
Gwyn James Solicitors announces merger with Dean Conveyancing.
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NewsNew coalition seeks to drive e-conveyancing
Digital Property Market Steering Group represents government agencies, legal professional bodies and business.
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NewsConveyancing: Law Society lobbies for changes to building safety legislation
Measures expose profession to potentially ‘unacceptable’ levels of risk, says president Lubna Shuja.
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NewsLand Registry customer satisfaction falls again
Overall service rated good to excellent by 60% of customers in 2022-23, down from 70% two years previously.
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NewsPII trends: seven in 10 firms still lack cyber-insurance
First Law Society survey of professional indemnity insurance since 2018 also tracks huge increase in premiums as market hardened.
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NewsLaw firm accuses rivals of turning conveyancing into 'combat sport'
Dutton Gregory hits out at other firms for slowing down the process, setting back completion times.