Property
AI will allow conveyancers “to resume role of trusted advisors”
Artificial intelligence will not mark the end of the traditional conveyancer and will instead put them back into their old trusted advisor role, a roundtable has heard.
High-profile conveyancer “transferring shares” post-disqualification
Lloyd Davies, the high-profile licensed conveyancer who has been permanently disqualified, is now in the process of transferring his shares in his firm, it has confirmed.
High-profile conveyancer disqualified for misleading 300 students
A high-profile licensed conveyancer has been thrown out of the profession for not telling 300 apprentices and students that his training academy had lost its official accreditation.
Land Registry system will reject applications with “simple” errors
HM Land Registry is to up efforts to reduce the number of requisitions it has to send to conveyancers by automatically checking for “simple errors” in applications.
Rescinding £32.5m house sale “will not change conveyancing”
The High Court has rejected the argument that its decision to order recission of a £32.5m house sale because of the presence of clothes moths will cause conveyancers problems.
Civil servant takes chair of Digital Property Market Steering Group
A senior civil servant has taken over as chair of the Digital Property Market Steering Group amid the positive response to the announcement of plans to digitise the home-buying process.
Government commits to digitising home-buying process
The government yesterday pledged to bring the home-buying process “into the digital age” by opening up property information so it can be shared between all those involved in a transaction.
Court readiness will not drive Renter’s Rights Bill, says minister
The government will not tie implementation of the Renter’s Rights Bill will “what could be a subjective assessment of court readiness”, a minister said last week.
Solicitors “letting down” women subjected to economic abuse
Lawyers giving independent legal advice in cases of potential economic abuse of women are helping the abusers more than their clients, new research has suggested.
Too complex and long – conveyancers condemn Law Society form
Conveyancers have told the Law Society that its controversial new TA6 property information form is too complex and too long, it revealed yesterday.
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Change in regulator shouldn’t make AML less of a priority
While SRA fines for AML have been climbing, many in the profession aren’t confident they will get any relief from the FCA, a body used to dealing with a highly regulated industry.
There are 17 million wills waiting to be written
The main reason cited by people who do not have a will was a lack of awareness as to how to arrange one. As a professional community, we seem to be failing to get our message across.
The case for a single legal services regulator: why the current system is failing
From catastrophic firm collapses to endemic compliance failures, the evidence is mounting that the current multi-regulator model is fundamentally broken.
