associate news

Andy Sommerville, Director at Search Acumen, comments: “Housing transactions reached their highest point last month since the headlong rush to beat the introduction of the stamp duty surcharge twelve months earlier in March last year. A modest monthly rise from February 2017 nonetheless shows that a recovery in the residential property market is underway, with seasonally-adjusted transactions topping 100,000 for three successive months. This is just what the industry needs as the UK enters another potentially turbulent few months in the lead-up to the snap election on 8th June.

tmgroup, the market-leading provider of technical solutions for conveyancers, is launching its new and innovative tmconvey platform to save customers even more time and effort.

Company to leverage its knowledge and expertise to help the Association achieve its sector modernisation vision. LexisNexis® Enterprise Solutions, a technology provider who works in partnership with customers to help transform legal services, today announced that it has joined the Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, as an Affiliate member. Through this partnership, LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions will leverage its in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by the conveyancing sector and technology prowess, to help CA achieve its goal of modernising the home moving process.

Independent medical reporting organisation (“MRO”) Medical and Professional Services Ltd has formally rebranded as MAPS Medical Reporting. Established in 1999, MAPS is a leading provider of medico-legal reporting services to some of the biggest names in UK personal injury litigation; it now hopes to expand its client base and develop the opportunities presented by MedCo.

Law firm Perry Hay & Co has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) after sending £333k directly into fraudsters’ pockets during a conveyancing transaction.

In the second of three articles concerning client care letters (CCLs), CILEx Regulation’s consumer engagement and policy officer, Sue Chandler, explains why CCLs are a great opportunity to win over your client.

In the first of a series of three articles concerning client care letters (CCLs), CILEx Regulation’s consumer engagement and policy officer, Sue Chandler, explains why CCLs are a great opportunity to win over your client.

Cybercrime is the now the largest crime facing the legal industry. In 2016 it accounted for around £7 million worth of losses to law firms.

The after-the-event insurance division of The DAS UK Group has extended the cover of their civil and commercial litigation product to include intellectual property and construction disputes.

The CA’s white paper, Modernising the home moving process, sets out the results of the association’s research and consultations with conveyancing stakeholders across the industry, in the UK and abroad, to identify the constraints in the home-moving process and the solutions employed in other jurisdictions as well as the CA’s own vision of how a future technology supported process could operate.