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Conveyancing ‘factories’ are property specialists and invest in technology to give consumers the service they want, the director of delivery at the Conveyancing Association has said.

Global alternative legal services provider Axiom has entered the UK in-house legal recruitment market, both for permanent staff and for ‘interim to permanent’ positions.

Upfront information on properties for home buyers must be mandated to “revolutionise” the process, the chair of the Home Buying and Selling Group has told MPs.

There is “reasonable cause to suspect” that the funder of the claimant in a $1.3bn action was controlled by sanctioned Russians, the High Court has ruled.

The Civil Mediation Council is creating an independent regulatory body and applying for a Royal charter in a bid to drive up standards in the profession, it has emerged.

A Ministry of Justice pilot project offering early publicly funded legal advice for housing debt and welfare benefit ended up helping only five people – but it nonetheless has potential.

Private equity-backed Lawfront – which earlier this month made its fourth major acquisition – is now looking to build a group turning over £150m, Legal Futures can reveal.

The options for solicitors to offer services to the public as freelancers or from unregulated businesses have had a “modest impact on consumer choice”, research for the SRA has found.

A solicitor who tried to pass off costs incurred by someone else as his own before the Business and Property Court has been struck off.

The Legal Services Board has warned regulators that they could face action over “slow” progress in developing quality indicators to help consumers choose lawyers.