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ARAG appoints new CFO
Leading legal expenses and assistance provider ARAG has appointed Simon Barrett as the company’s next Chief Financial Officer, in preparation for the retirement of longstanding CFO Bob Moreton, next year.
Terrafirma build on conveyancing success to launch climate-focused ground risk solution
Terrafirma – the leading provider of ground risk reports to the conveyancing industry – have launched the National Ground Risk Model: Climate™, an expertly modelled dataset to understand how property, land and assets can be impacted by changing ground conditions driven by climate change.
Introducing the autumn–winter 2020/21 edition of Entitlement from Title Research
The autumn-winter 2020/21 edition of Entitlement, Title Research’s news digest, is now available for legal professionals to download completely free of charge.
Casedo will be showcasing at the Re:Adapt Legaltech Conference
Casedo, which will soon announce a significant technical update to its document analysis, research and organisation tool, will be running a workshop at the Re:Adapt Legaltech Conference on 30th November 2020.
Legal content creation experts launch one-stop legal newsfeed app
Legal RSS, the long-established news provider of court judgments for the UK’s legal sector has launched a unique multi-function smartphone application.
Certainty Will Search prevents incorrect estate distribution and wins probate work
It is not always possible to know when your client has passed away which raises the risk that the Will that you hold for them may be overlooked and their estate distributed incorrectly. In the below case study, Louise Salisbury, Partner at AST Hampsons explains how a Certainty Will Search helped notify the firm that their client had passed away and subsequently prevented their estate being distributed as an intestacy and the firm winning the probate work.
“Worthless Houses” due to Developer and Planning Negligence
Residents on a new-build housing estate in Bradford have been told that their homes are currently worth nothing – as a result of planning and building failures. Penny Andrews, Operations and Compliance Director at Future Climate Info, explains why and the importance to conveyancers of acting on a Further Action result in an environmental search.
The SDLT holiday & lockdowns: a perfect storm for technostress
Over the course of 2020, those working in residential conveyancing have had a rollercoaster ride of epic proportions. With the effective closing down of the residential property market in the first lockdown, followed by the unprecedented high levels of demand created by the lifting of restrictions, and indeed by the Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) holiday. The deadline for the SDLT holiday is currently set at March 2021. In conveyancing terms, the deadline is now looming!
SearchFlow responds to ONS House Price Index
SearchFlow, the UK’s leading property search provider in residential and commercial markets, today responds to the latest House Price Index from the Office of National Statistics, which shows a rise of 4.7% in the year to September 2020, with average prices now standing at £245,000, a rise of £11,000 since September 2019.
Professional probate applications must now be submitted online
As of 2 November 2020, new rules came into force that mandate the use of MyHMCTS for most Grant of Probate applications. Paper applications will no longer be accepted as of 30 November 2020
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The cost of systemic failure and childbirth injuries
Recent reports show that the NHS has paid almost £3.5bn in medical claims around childbirth injuries over the past six years.
Mazur: when regulators make simple things complicated
What the last six months have shown is that supervision cannot be treated as a background compliance obligation quietly managed somewhere in a firm’s operational processes.
How unstoppable AI is reshaping UK legal practice
At a time when most technology innovation still flows from the US and China, UK lawtech is attracting growing international attention and capital.
