Conveyancing Spotlight – Sort Legal LTD
Sort Legal LTD, a Derby based company specialising in providing access to legal and surveying services to the financial services intermediary sector through its cutting-edge online platform, is one of Derby’s fastest growing businesses. Following sustained success and growth, Sort Legal LTD is looking to expand its business even further. The recent recruitment open day […]
The Law Society angered by Restrictive Conveyancing Panels
The Law Society claim that conveyancing panel memberships, and the increasingly demanding standards needed to remain a panel member, reduce consumer choice, push-up consumer fees and should be investigated further. The Law Society has stated: “Where consumers wish to instruct a solicitor of their choice they may do so. However, if that solicitor’s firm is not a member […]
Blockchain Technology: The Brave New World of the Conveyancing Sector?
Proptech is a growing industry that is forcing legal service providers to consider how they interact and use technology to improve the property moving process; however, could latest technological innovations force us to redefine the way we view property ownership? The current land or property ownership model has existed for thousands of years. Land ownership […]
Why Law Firms Should and Shouldn’t Use Public Cloud
An increasing number of legal firms are looking to the cloud to deliver cost-efficiencies and flexibility, and many are becoming more confident with providers’ IT security and datacentre compliance capabilities. This shows a marked change in the industry as the cloud market matures and providers such as Microsoft Azure and AWS start to offer a secure, viable […]
New National Planning Policy Framework
You have to build a house before you can sell it, so conveyancing specialists will understandably be keen to know whether the Government’s newly published National Planning Policy Framework (“the NPPF”, July 2018) is going to facilitate the delivery of the new housing the country so badly needs. The NPPF – which replaces the previous version published in March 2012 – is not just […]