Land Registry achieves customer satisfaction success
The Land Registry has achieved its best ever customer satisfaction results. During the last three months of 2011/12 the customer satisfaction score for the Land Registry reached 99%, the highest in its history. This brings the overall yearly score to 97 per cent. The customer satisfaction survey is carried out independently by Ipsos Mori every […]
Law Society Excellence Awards are now open for nominations
The Law Society is inviting legal professionals from across England and Wales to enter the Excellence Awards 2012. Now in their sixth year, the awards are firmly established as the leading awards for the profession in the legal calendar. They recognise and reward the most outstanding and dynamic practitioners in the legal profession, and are […]
House sales fall almost forty per cent in five years
The latest RICS Housing Market Survey shows that house sales per surveyor across the UK are almost forty per cent lower than at the peak of the boom five years ago. During May, the average number of completed sales per surveyor was 15.6, compared to 25.4 in May 2007. This shows the extent to which […]
Conserving our History or Restricting our Future?
As any law student will tell you, the benefit of a restrictive covenant attaches to land and can be enforced by successive owners of that land provided certain well-rehearsed conditions are met. However, section 8 of the National Trust Act 1937 enables the National Trust to enforce restrictive covenants without needing to satisfy the all […]
