24 hour countdown – have you got your ticket?
Lawyer Checker, market leaders in fraud prevention for law firms, will be hosting the Regulation & Compliance break out session at the Law Firm Services Awards this year. The session aims to give further credence to established risk management procedures and helps to bolster them further. We will look at key industry viewpoints on how […]
National Flood Review: short term solutions that miss wider flood risk
The latest DEFRA review on the UK’s flood defences has underlined that more than a short term fix is required with flood management for people and property – yet this is what it is proposing right now. The review underlines already well understood predictions of greater, more frequent flood events. The review only examined river […]
Pali wins again
The Online Business Awards, in association with Talk Business, focus on enterprising UK companies with a powerful online presence and aim to recognise the best in Britain, drawn from all the countries within the United Kingdom. The winners of the Online Business Awards 2016 have been announced and Pali is delighted to have won the […]
No more errors with Searches UK’s stamp duty land tax online portal
Searches UK are always looking to introduce brand new products to their existing portfolio to help make the conveyancing process as straightforward as possible. They are delighted to announce that they now provide SDLT as an online stamp duty submission form. The new SDLT software duplicates the layout of the paper version and highlights any […]
Average process time for CQS Accreditation falls to just over 70 days
Waiting for your Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) Accreditation? Further to a Today’s Conveyancer Freedom of Information (FOI) Request to the Law Society, we can report that, due to numerous improvements made by the body to the CQS scheme over the last few months, the total average time for processing both new and re-accreditation applications has […]
Assembly bill paves the way for Wales to replace SDLT
Yesterday saw the announcement of the first new Welsh tax for almost 800 years by the Welsh Assembly. The bill for the Land Transaction Tax (LTT) in Wales was introduced into the National Assembly yesterday and it is expected to receive Royal Assent next year before being introduced in April 2018. Should it become law, […]
Conveyancing Foundation sets £50k pre-Christmas fundraising target for Children with Cancer UK
The Conveyancing Charity Foundation, which has been established to assist conveyancing lawyers in generating funds for their chosen charities, has today outlined its latest charity target – to raise over £50k for Children with Cancer UK by Christmas. Last year, the conveyancing industry embraced the Conveyancing Foundation’s Matterhorn Challenge and helped to raise over £50k […]