Law Society appoints new Chief Executive
The Law Society has announced the appointment of Catherine Dixon as its new chief executive. Catherine will begin her new role in the coming months and will take over from Desmond Hudson, who will retire at the end of the month. With an impressive career history behind her, including working as head of legal and […]
Interview with new CILEx Chief Exec Mandie Lavin
The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) has announced that Mandie Lavin is to be appointed as its new Chief Executive, taking over the post on January 1 2015 upon the retirement of Diane Burleigh OBE. In her first interview about her appointment at CILEx, Miss Lavin, currently director of regulation at the General Optical […]
Employment fraud on the rise
Employment application fraud made up over half of all confirmed frauds recorded to the UK’s fraud prevention service (CIFAS) in the first half of 2014. Job applicants making serious false declarations about anything from employment history and qualifications to criminal records made up 63 per cent of fraud reported to the service. The most common […]
SortRefer bolsters growing business
Online conveyancing portal SortRefer, winner of two industry awards this year for its intermediary conveyancing work, has bolstered its team with the appointment of Annabel Halhead as operations manager. Annabel has spent the last nine years working as operations manager for one of the UK’s largest event management agencies, Zibrant, where she managed over 30 […]
Pickles reveals house building projects to get funding boost
Eric Pickles has announced the first wave of projects that will benefit from a £1 billion scheme to accelerate the provision of over 200,000 new homes across the country. The Communities Secretary published a shortlist of 36 large-scale housing projects in line to receive a share of £850 million of funding to kickstart housebuilding. The […]
Today's Conveyancer Topic of the Month
As the 30th September approaches and firms are thinking about renewal of their Professional Indemnity Insurance we at St Giles are often asked what firms can do to save time in completion of their proposal form and improve their profile. It goes without saying that firms who do low risk work and have no claims […]
Council of Licensed Conveyancers approves appointment of Head of Legal Practice at TCS
Following approval from the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC), TCS has announced a major internal appointment with John Jones appointed as Head of Legal Practice. John joined TCS in October 2013 as Compliance Director and was appointed Head of Legal Practice on the 8th July 2014, pending approval from the CLC. He qualified in 1987 […]
DC Law launches training academy to increase conveyancers in the property market
The DC Law Training Academy has been launched by the conveyancing arm of Move with Us to tackle the shortage of conveyancers in the current market which is leading to delays in the house moving process. The academy, which started recruiting in June 2014 is training people who are looking to enter the profession […]
The Real Estate Symposium Dinner on target for 2015 election
Few events have as great an effect on the homebuying public as a general election and with the next one just around the corner this year’s Real Estate Symposium Dinner, facilitated by Search Acumen, will be focussing on what the outcome could mean for property professionals. Whilst some choose to concentrate on the here and […]
Preparing for the PII renewal season – use Lawyer Checker
The deadline for renewing Professional Indemnity Insurance is looming for law firms and naturally the premiums associated with this insurance are a great concern for most law firms, and in particular smaller law firms. Payments for insurance can constitute one of the largest costs to a business aside from salaries. Add to this the fact […]